Like Drones to a Cloud

Level	1
Type	Mining
Objective	Defeat all drones; harvest 425 Chartreuse Cytoserocin.
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
Ship suggestion	Cruiser, though a properly fitted Venture may work

Mission briefing

Drones scare the daylights out of some people. To be completely honest, the big hives even scare me a little. The smaller drone groups are annoying, but more manageable. Usually. Anyway, there's a Chartreuse Cytoserocin cloud over in <System> that seems to be attracting these wild drones. We keep clearing them out, but new drones just end up replacing them. We've figured out that, for whatever reason, they're attracted to the gas. So the best solution is to just remove the cloud: no cloud, no drones. If you can harvest that cloud out, it'd be a big help.

Rogue Drones

Rogue drones and "wild drones" are the terms used for advanced drones that have mutated out of control. A few years ago, a respected Gallentean inventor had the idea of creating super-advanced drones that could think and act on their own in every sense like a regular space ship, except for being computer controlled, and hence unmanned. Unfortunately, the drones became unruly, then unmanageable, and soon developed the ability to "infect" other drones, and eventually even ships, with their capricious artificial intelligence. Needless to say, Gallente soon abandoned this line of research.

Warning: You must own and be able to use a Gas Cloud Harvester to complete this mission.

Ungated normal space pocket. The rats spawn near a drone structure.

First spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Frigate Silverfish/Devilfish Alvi
	1 x Destroyer Ripper Alvior

Second spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Cruiser Wrecker/Destructor Alvum

Third spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Frigate Devilfish Alvi
	1 x Cruiser Wrecker Alvum

Fourth spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Destroyer Ripper Alvior

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Drone Structure
	1 x Chartreuse Cytoserocin