Jet-Set Hooligans

Site Details

Jet-Set Hooligans
Type	Expedition
Rating	Unrated
Found in	High, Low
Max ship size	Unknown
Faction	Serpentis
Best damage to deal	Kin Th
Damage to resist	Th Kin

Expedition start:

As the dust disperses, you receive a transmission from someone claiming to have had some rather intimite relations with your sister and that he is waiting for you a few jumps away, to see what you are going to do about it. Despite the fact that you have no sister that you know of and the guy sounds like he has been drinking more than just Quafe, you feel a certain temptation to go and see what this is all about.

First location

Warp-in

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	3-4 x Frigate Coreli Guardian Protector/Defender/Safeguard
	3-4 x Battlecruiser Corelatis High Captain/Captain Sentry
	0-1 x Frigate Shadow Serpentis

Single room

Entering this room can trigger the escalation. Serpentis Madcat frigates are 225 km away.

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Frigate Serpentis Madcat

In local
Serpentis Madcat: Well look at who we have here boys, looks like a garbage hauler. I wonder what nincompoop decided to send him out here through our turf. Maybe his mother? Ha ha.

In local (Madcat warp-off)
Serpentis Madcat: I've had enough fun with this freak, I doubt he has anything worth looting. Let's roll boys!

All of the Madcats will warp away, although they will attack you from a very long range for a couple of seconds.

Escalation message:
Heuristic analysis of this location indicates that destroying the Serpentis Armory would greatly improve your odds of uncovering further illicit activity

In previous patches the Escalation message was more colorful; stating:

Escalation message:
These seem to be just some Serp rich kids on Crash looking for trouble, rather than serious bloodthirsty pirates. In some jet set ships, probably with modules to die for.., in any case your instruments have an easy lock on their destination in case you have nothing more important to do than to spank those brats.

Escalation dead-end
These seem to be just some brats on Crash looking for trouble, rather than serious bloodthirsty pirates. In some jet set ships, probably with modules to die for.., in any case your instruments are unable to determine their destination.

Second location

Warp-in

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Coreli Guardian Patroller/Watchman
	1 x Cruiser Corelum Chief Defender
	4 x Battlecruiser High Captain
	0-1 x Frigate Shadow Serpentis

Escalation message: These seem to be just some punks on drugs looking for trouble rather than bloodthirst pirates. In any case, your instruments have an easy lock on their destination.
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Single room

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Frigate Serpentis Madcat

One of the Madcats will stay behind. Killing it can trigger escalation. Attacking it triggers first spawn.

The Madcat is difficult to kill, uses MWD and has active shield and armor rep and small signature (~500 DPS HM Tengu was not able to kill it (possible if you manage to keep it at range (pressing E all the time) - the wreck was empty!)).

If you are unable to kill the Madcat he will eventually warp away.

A group of Serpentis ships (named Guardian Angels) spawn to defend the Madcat. Each pair of Guardian Angel ships will spawn a new reinforcement wave. Last ship killed will trigger Spawn 2.

Scarcity Update: This site, like other cosmic signatures, contains ore.

• As of 1st March 2021 the site contains large amounts of Hedbergite & Hemorphite, with smaller amounts of Omber, Kernite and ores found in high sec. The ore spans a crescent shape of 120km across and is therefore impossible to scan with a single survey. It was estimated on approximately a third of the belt scanned that ISK value at current prices would be 2.5-3b. Note that if the site is left by all players it may despawn, but leaving one player at all times within the site will retain it in space for mining.
• As of 3rd March 2021 the only asteroids showing on overview at the site were Scordite and Veldspar. Very disappointing.
• As of 15th of October 2021 the site, once again, contains only large amounts of Scordite and Veldspar.

Escalation message:
It seems like you have the choices of staying here and getting murdered by the Angel babysitters, or you could try to jet out and see if the lock you have on the rest of the brats is any good...

WARNING:

If you kill reinforcement 3 or stay too long (not confirmed) a very strong group will spawn.

Reinforcement 1

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Lieutenant
	2 x Destroyer Guardian Angel Infiltrator
	2 x Cruiser Guardian Angel Harpoon
	4 x Battlecruiser Guardian Angel Warmonger

Each pair of first reinforcements will spawn a new pair of same type.

Reinforcements 2 (full)

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Lieutenant
	2 x Destroyer Guardian Angel Infiltrator
	2 x Cruiser Guardian Angel Harpoon
	4 x Battlecruiser Guardian Angel Warmonger

Finishing reinforcement 2 spawns reinforcement 3. This group spawns around 100 km from warp-in. DO NOT KILL REINFORCEMENT 3!

Reinforcements 3

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Agent/Spy/Initiate
	2 x Destroyer Coreli Cannoneer/Infantry
	7 x Battlecruiser Corelatis Captain/High Captain

Killing reinforcement 3 triggers massive enemy wave. These ships will close in very quickly and will web and point. You will not be match for them. The ships have special types: "Temko Interceptor", "COSMOS Gallente Commodore", "Cosmos Gallente Elite Frigate" and "Cosmos Gallente Captain". They were easily able to overpower a Vargur with 1700 ehp/s tank.

Guardian Angel Battlegroup

		WD	EWAR	L
	5 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Elite (Temko Interceptor)
	10 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Lieutenant
	10 x Elite Cruiser Guardian Angel Harpoon
	10 x Battleship Guardian Angel Obliterator

Third location

Warp-in

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	0-1 x Commander Destroyer Shadow Serpentis
	3 x Elite Cruiser Corelum Guardian Chief Infantry/Sentinel
	3 x Battlecruiser Corelatis Platoon Leader

Single room

As you enter the room three Madcat frigates are waiting. They will warp off after calling reinforcements. Their warp off is the escalation trigger.

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Serpentis Madcat

Escalation message:
Finally! Your navigation panel proudly flashes a suggested destination for the Serpentis brats.

WARNING:

If you kill reinforcement or stay too long (not confirmed) a very strong group will spawn.

Reinforcement 1

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Lieutenant
	2 x Destroyer Guardian Angel Infiltrator
	2 x Cruiser Guardian Angel Harpoon
	4 x Battlecruiser Guardian Angel Warmonger

Reinforcements 2 (full)

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Lieutenant
	2 x Destroyer Guardian Angel Infiltrator
	2 x Cruiser Guardian Angel Harpoon
	4 x Battlecruiser Guardian Angel Warmonger

The guardian angel battlegroup will spawn if you kill enough ships from second reinforcements. The group spawns about 50 km from warp-in.

Guardian Angel Battlegroup

		WD	EWAR	L
	5 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Elite (Temko Interceptor)
	10 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Lieutenant
	10 x Elite Cruiser Guardian Angel Harpoon
	10 x Battleship Guardian Angel Obliterator

Fourth location

Single normal space pocket.

On warp-in

Serpentis Madcat: That's it! You have the audacity to enter the proximity of our Pleasure Resorts! I can't lose face in front of the girls inside ... I mean I can't let you get away with that! ... Prepare to die, pest. Your computers pick up distress signals being sent from somewhere in the area. Perhaps this indicates that more enemy ships may be incoming soon. Whatever you're after here, you should probably make haste before you are overwhelmed.

Despite the warnings, leaving the site, reshipping and finishing it was possible. This was done in a timeframe of about 45 minutes, without killing any ships except the Madcats. It is possible that the Reinforcement Wave only spawns after the destruction of particular NPC ships, more testing is needed.

Killing the three madcats frigates unlocks the container. This container can contain multiple Coreli A-typ DED modules.
The Madcat frigates have very high passive shield regeneration (150 HP/s), active armor tank and MWD. The stats for the Madcat can be found here. Kinetic damage is best against their shields, the armor has 90% omni resist with full (800HP) repair every 10 seconds. This means you need to do at least 950 dps or do enough volley damage to punch through the armor. Damage application is also an issue against their small signature radius (48m). This stage is best attempted with some friends, either a small group of high DPS frigates (to avoid most of the room damage) or some cruiser sized ships and up with application (TP/web) and / or logi support. High alpha snipers with application support can also work, in which case a fast / tanky frigate buddy is recommended to pick up the loot.

Strategy 2: Done in a Rupture with Kin/Therm Armor Hardeners, Armor repairer, web (to slow the cats) and 4 425 mm cannon II with barrage ammo. Warped in, bookmarked, warped out. Warped at 100km from the bookmark, bookmarked again, warped out. Warped 100k from bookmark. This should be enough distance to avoid most damage, specially from the towers, but I'd suggest more distance, a third bookmart to be at 300km from the towers would be better.

At this distance, pick a direction (preferably keeping distance from main group of enemies) and wait the madcats to reach you. Just send all firepower, including drones and ensure you are webing the target, they may lose the web sometimes so be sure to web again as soon as they get in range. It took about 15 mins to kill the three, is a matter of time until you get the right volleys and breach their armour, my rupture had 280 dps.

Once the mad cats are destroyed, as you are hundreds of km away from the lootbox, you can warp at 0 from it, quickly loot it and warp away without killing any other ships

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L Structures on site
	1 x Madcat's Stash

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Serpentis MadCat
	5 x Elite Frigate Guardian Angel Lieutenant
	5 x Destroyer Guardian Angel Infiltrator
	5 x Battlecruiser Guardian Angel Battle Sergeant
	5 x Sentry Serpentis Tower Sentry

Killing ships can trigger additional waves.

Escalation finished:
Killing rich kids may be lucrative, but when they have an army of hard core Guardian Angels to hold their hand like this, it can be a bit troublesome. These at least will have enough to talk about in their luxury clone bay tonight, wherever that may be.

Reinforcement Spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	10 x Battlecruiser Guardian Angel Warmonger

Loot

Commander and other valuable loot

Item Name	Est. Value	Note
Mid-grade Snake implants	50 million ISK	From Shadow Serpentis Commander
Shadow Serpentis modules	5 million ISK	From Shadow Serpentis Commander
Standard Meta Loot	???	From usual NPC ships

Exploration logs

Date	Loot	Est. value	Comments
July 2023	Shadow Serpentis 5MN Microwarpdrive	20.4 million ISK	From Shadow Frigate @Location#01
	Shadow Serpentis Light Ion Blaster	1.9 Million Isk
December 2022	Coreli A-Type Thermal Coating	1.5 million ISK	From Madcat cache @ Location#04 (was a bit dissapointed) xD
August 2021	Mid-grade Asklepian Omega	440 million ISK	From Shadow Serpentis Frigate @ Location#02
August 2017	Mid-grade Snake Alpha	20 million ISK	From Shadow Serpentis Frigate @ Location#01
	Mid-grade Snake Beta	40 million ISK	From Shadow Serpentis Frigate @ Location#02
	Shadow Serpentis modules	3 million ISK	From Shadow Serpentis Destroyer @ Location#03
January 2018	Mid-grade Asklepian Gamma	75 million ISK	From Shadow Serpentis @ Location#01
September 2018	Daredevil BPC		From Shadow Serpentis @ Location#02