Security tags

Security tags, or clone soldier tags, are items which drop from Clone Soldier NPC rats in low sec, and can be used to increase a player's security status if it is below zero, or sold to NPC buy orders. They are quite valuable, ranging in price from 1.5 to 20 million isk on the market.

Clone soldiers

Clone soldiers are cruiser size NPCs which spawn in low security asteroid belts, following the regular faction distributions. That means you'll find Angel Clone Soldiers in Angel Cartel space, Sansha Clone Soldiers in areas held by Sansha's Nation etc, and they share the usual resistance and damage profiles of their faction.

They have higher resistances, very long range, high damage, and correspondingly high bounties compared to other asteroid belt rats. Negotiators can warp scramble out to 24km, and Transporters can webify out to 10km.

These special clone soldiers spawn infrequently, though they are more common than faction or officer spawns. Once you find one however, they will always drop the corresponding security tag, and possibly some other random loot.

Different tiers

There are four different tiers of clone soldiers, each dropping a different type of security tag. Each of the different type of clone soldiers come in the flavour of the local pirates, so there are five different clone soldier recruiters for example, one for each of the pirate factions. However the security tag items are generic and not affected by the faction of the NPC they drop from.

	Clone Soldier Trainer (drops the trainer tag) - Found in 0.4 security space In charge of funds, equipment and locales used in the preparation and deployment of clone soldiers loyal to the faction.\
	Clone Soldier Recruiter (drops the recruiter tag) - Found in 0.3 security space In charge of scouting vulnerable areas - remote planets, isolated outposts, interstellar colonies and other places that hold human life - with the aim of bringing in new recruits for the pirates' clone soldier programs.
	Clone Soldier Transporter (drops the transporter tag) - Found in 0.2 security space Responsible for the swift conveyance of clone soldiers to their intended destination.
	Clone Soldier Negotiator (drops the negotiator tag) - Found in 0.1 security space A fixer who establishes contracts between pirate-trained clone soldiers and those who might employ their services.

Security tags

There are four different security tags, one for each tier of clone soldier. The tags can be turned in at special CONCORD stations in low security space to repair negative security status and can be sold and bought on the market just like any other item. Right click the tag in your items and select INFO. At the bottom of the page will be a button to find the nearest CONCORD exchange facility.

Limitations of the security tags

Each tag increases your security status by 0.5 points but has innate limits to how far a specific tag can take you. The Trainer tag can only bring your security status up from -10 to -8, after that you'll need a Recruiter tag for example. Thus, the transporter and negotiator tags are several times more expensive than their counterparts due to be needed for the last and most important standings increases.

		Clone Soldier Trainer Tag x 4 (between -10 and -8)
		Clone Soldier Recruiter Tag x 6 (between -8 and -5)
		Clone Soldier Transporter Tag x 6 (between -5 and -2)
		Clone Soldier Negotiator Tag x 4 (between -2 and 0)

You cannot use a tag if your security status is greater than 0, but the last tag you hand in will give you its full value. For example, you can go from -0.09 to 0.41 with your last hand in. Tags are only meant as a means of repairing negative security status. If you want to raise your security status above that you'll have to use more traditional means of raising your security status.

Station facilities

In order to exchange security tags for security status, you'll need the Security Office service, which is only available in CONCORD and DED stations in low security space. Turning tags in will have an additional cost in ISK as well. It can be quite expensive. To find a Security office you only have to click on your F10, which opens your in game map, then under Star Map, Stars, find the Services folder and click on Security Offices and it will show you on your map were the closest one to you is. You can also see the Evelopedia article below...

The Star Map can be filtered to show station services such as the Security Office service.

The Security Office service window.

Guides

Most of these guides are outdated but still contain a lot of general information that remains the same.

• Clone Soldier Tags (outdated)
• [Ratting] Clone Soldier Farming (outdated)

External links

• EVElopedia Tags for Security article
• The original dev blog, WantToTrade: Tags for Security Status