Mare Sargassum

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Overview

This is an escalation found by completing Desolate Site signatures. It may contain up to four parts, each of which will be about 4 jumps from the previous system. The first three will be in high-sec space, while the fourth will be in low-sec. The sites do not have gates, and can be easily completed in a cruiser.

Incoming transmission
At first it seems strange the drones have picked this barren and resource deficient place to build a new hive. But then again, while you were blowing up the place, you noticed a few vessels that might have been used as transports, indicating the drones were pulling in the materials they needed from someplace else. As to compliment you on your reasoning, your communication systems start indicating several different incoming transmissions in drone beeps and clicks and after a while you manage to coerce your instruments into pointing out an approximate spatial origin of the message.

Walkthrough

Part #1

Warp-in message
Heuristic analysis of this location indicates that attacking the Trash Construction would greatly improve your odds of uncovering further illicit activity.

A few small drones, and one sentient drone. The escalation appeared after I killed a few of the drones - and before killing the sentient drone (timer?). Strain drones do warp scramble/web.

Initial defenders
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Wave #2
WD EWAR L


Frigate 2 x Frigate Raider/... Alvi
Elite Frigate 4 x Elite Frigate Strain Infester/... Alvin Warp Disruptor Stasis webifier
Commander Destroyer 1 x Commander Destroyer Sentient Devilfish/... Alvior Escalation trigger Drone components or Astero chip
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Wave #3
WD EWAR L


Frigate 4 x Frigate Barracuda/... Alvi
Template:NPCTableFoot (25/7/2016) Got different spawns. Possibly alternative site layout.
Initial defenders (alternative?)
WD EWAR L


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


Frigate 6 x Frigate Raider/Sunder Alvi
Commander Frigate 1 x Commander Frigate Sentient Devilfish/... Alvi Possible escalation trigger Drone components or Astero chip

Additional defenders appeared before even targeting anything. This also gave the escalation end message.

Additional defenders
WD EWAR L


Frigate 5 x Frigate Raider/Sunder Alvi
Destroyer 3 x Destroyer Ripper/Shatterer Alvior
Dead end message
All the drones have been obliterated, no clues are offered on where more can be found and your expedition seems to have come to a dead end.
Escalation message
Most of the drones have been obliterated, but a few made it away. Luckily the average drone operates in part like a jukebox trying to play all its tracks repeatedly at the same time over the airwaves, relying on the other drones to filter out the information they need and disregard the rest. Therefore they are usually easy to find while within reasonable range and this time is no different. Your instruments concentrate on messages from one of the escaped drones and after having filtered through several thousand repetitions of electrical manuals for every hydraulic system built the last three hundred years this side of the Myridian Strip, the entire known literature on the theory of relativity recited three times and for some obscure reason a text on the effect of oriental gardening on the human condition played simultaneously on four parallel channels, they finally come across a new location:

Part #2

Similar to first, killing sentient drone first triggered escalation. There is at least one reinforcement wave.

Initial defenders
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Timed Wave
WD EWAR L


Frigate 9 x Frigate Decimator/... Alvi
Destroyer 6 x Destroyer Predator/... Alvior
Commander Frigate 1 x Commander Frigate Sentient Shatter/... Alvior Escalation trigger Drone components or Astero chip
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WD EWAR L


Frigate 3 x Frigate Hunter/... Alvi
Local chat channel message
Drone Signal: Location ðrzs found, location þeðy alerted.

Part 3

Fewer rogue drones, and killing the sentient drone once again triggered the escalation. As a bonus, you get to see a great big red cube in space. The Borg turned more evil?

Mare Sargassum Stage 3.png

Part 4

This part will be in a low-sec system.

(took me two jumps in). 5 small rogue drones waiting on warpin, and 5 "Drone Hold" cans. Completion popup happened after blowing up the first wave and starting to open cans. Strain Splinter drones can warp scram and web, they should be priority. Two reinforcement waves later appeared, with a Rogue Mining Overseer dropping T2 salvage (as loot?). One of the Drone Hold cans contained some drone goo (Dark Compound, Condensed Compound), but overall fairly worthless stuff (Confirmed).

Rewards

Each part has a commander rat which, when killed, will drop T2 salvage and Rogue Drone components. Lootable cans may contain drone alloys.