Core Runner Drop Production Facility

Site Details

Core Runner Drop Production Facility
Type	Chemical Lab
Rating	Unrated
Found in	Null
Max ship size	Unrestricted
Faction	Serpentis
Best damage to deal	Kin Th
Damage to resist	Th Kin
Sig. strength	N/A

The Core Runner Drop Production Facility is a chemical lab found in the Cloud Ring region. It must be scanned down with scanner probes, and will appear as a gas site in the probe window. The site is not in deadspace nor behind a gate, so it is possible to warp around freely and for people to warp directly to you.

Walkthrough

Warpin

Forever seeking new ways to spread their influence in the illegal booster industry, the Core Runners looked to the famed Thukker Tribe caravans for inspiration. No longer content to base their sales exclusively out of static locations, they have begun to push forward and establish temporary markets wherever demand is highest. Marketing highly valuable Exile and Drop boosters in such a way presents numerous challenges and temptations to all involved. For this reason Serpentis put only their most trusted narco-thugs in charge of this new operation: Sarpati himself is said to have handpicked the two Captains and their lieutenants.

The site contains both combat and hacking.

Warp-in pocket

All the ships will be named Core Runner < something >.

It is possible to tank the initial defenders with a strong enough tank, while you hack the cans and skip the combat. But this will leave you without the possible commander drops.
Another tactic is to clear the site in a PvE fitted combat ship, and then refit or reship to a hacking ship once the site is cleared.

Destroy the energy neuting towers first, then the frigates and up in size.

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Spy
	0-1 x Elite Cruiser Lieutenant Elois Ottin
	2 x Elite Cruiser Corelum Guardian Chief
	2 x Battleship Core Grand Admiral/Core Lord Admiral
	4 x Sentry Serpentis Cruise Missile Tower (missile)
	2 x Sentry Serpentis Energy Neutralizer Sentry II (missile)

Reinforcements

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Spy
	3 x Elite Cruiser Corelum Guardian Chief
	5 x Battleship Core Grand Admiral/Core Lord Admiral

Notable structures

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L
	0-3 x Restricted Punch Bowl
	0-3 x Com Relay
	0-3 x Victim's Stash

There might be more named NPCs that can spawn in this site.

Rewards

Overview

	Est. value
Bounties	~15.000.000 isk
loot	Drug BPC, BPO
Loot	Drug skillbooks

Exploration logs

Date	Loot	Est. value	Comments
June 2018	General loot	8 drug bpc, 1 bpo, 1 Drug Manufacturing skillbook
June 2018	General loot	1 drug bpc, 1 drug neurotoxin skillbook	This time there were no Command ship and only 4 cans