Pulverize the Pioneers

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Expedition start message
Throughout this last fight, your radar equipment has been busy chewing on information about incoming and outgoing vessels and it seems it has traced a very large group of ships that left this place few minutes before you arrived. You have no clue why they left, were they fleeing? Or was it a coincidence? Either way, there is only one way to find out.

Pulverize the Pioneers is an expedition escalated from Haunted Yard.

Walkthrough

The first three locations are generally in high security space and last in low security space but this can vary.

Location #1

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Example drop from Sentient drone

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	2-4 x Frigate Abandoned Drone
	1 x Commander Frigate Sentient Decimator/... Alvi

Wave #2

		WD	EWAR	L
	6 x Frigate Decimator/... Alvi
	1 x Elite Frigate Strain Sunder Alvi

Escalation message
There is no trace of the ships themselves, but you pick up signals from a score of astrometric probes in the area. If this were not drones, one could think they were looking for a place to settle. Though faint, your instruments manage still to discern the current location of this mysterious group of ships.

Dead end message
There is no trace of the ships at the location, but you pick up signals from a score of astrometric probes in the area. If this were not drones, one could think they were looking for a place to settle. Sadly, all this electronic chatter seems to have confused your instruments to the point where you get no further information on the ships you were seeking.

Location #2

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Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Render/... Alvi
	1 x Commander Frigate Sentient Hunter/... Alvi

Additional waves

		WD	EWAR	L
After aggression on Commander Frigate
	2 x Frigate Render/... Alvi
Timed wave
	2 x Destroyer Shatter/... Alvior

Escalation message
These ships which you seem to have caught off guard, represented only a fraction of the group indicated by the signal your radars have been picking up. Moreover now the origin of the main signal seems to be close, very close.

Location #3

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Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	9 x Frigate Decimator/... Alvi
	1 x Commander Frigate Sentient Hunter/... Alvi

Timed wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Destroyer Ripper/... Alvior

Escalation message
You don't remember having seen such a large and rabid swarm of rogue drones before, luckily they were gimpy as heck. You wonder what they were trying to defend in such a desperate manner, throwing themselves at you wave after wave until all were obliterated. The signal is weaker but still there...

Location #4

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Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Frigate Render/... Alvi
	2 x Elite Frigate Researcher
	2 x Cruiser Researcher

Wave #2

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Barracuda/... Alvi
	2 x Destroyer Dismantler/... Alvior

Wave #3

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Barracuda/... Alvi
	3 x Destroyer Dismantler/... Alvior

Overseer wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Overseer Cruiser Logistic Overseer

Expedition compelete message
The drone transports were easy prey after you had previously wasted most of their escort ships. You wonder what they were doing here in the middle of nothing and conclude that the only plausible reason is that you must have intercepted and destroyed a new rogue drone colony in the making.

Loot

The commander drones in sites drop drone components and have can also drop Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip (astero) or a faction module. The container in last location contains T2 salvage.