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=== ARCHIVE ROOM ===
 
=== ARCHIVE ROOM ===
18. For this site, it's good prudence to drop all loot and unneeded modules in a Small Secure Container or nearby station. Make sure to bookmark the can: containers cannot be scanned down with combat probes. A safe spot works nicely. Bring the mobile depot.<br />
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:'''You will need a [[Strategic Cruiser]] or [[Nestor]] to handle this room, with at least 2000 EHP/sec active reps and minimum 50K EHP of buffer. You must be able to both repair and tank considerable damage. A super-tanked cruiser or battlecruiser (such as a [[Maller]] or [[Prophecy]]) may be capable of surviving for a time with proper use of the Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries. To ensure that loot is not lost in the event of failure, eject loot at regular intervals to be returned to later.'''<br />
19. You will need a T3 crusier or Nestor to handle this room, with at least 2000 EHP/sec active reps and a good 50K EHP of buffer, minimum. You must be able to repair considerable damage and be able to tank a lot of damage. Frigates need not apply, although a super tanked cruiser (Maller or Prophecy comes to mind) with proper use of the Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries could probably hold out for a bit. Eject loot as you get it if that is the case.<br />
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22. Before running the Archive Room, store all loot and unneeded modules in a Small Secure Container or nearby station. Make sure to bookmark the can; containers cannot be scanned down with combat probes. A safe spot works nicely. Bring the mobile depot.<br />
20. Starting from the Turret Room, hack the Hyperfluct Generator. If it is successful, take the rift.<br />
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23. Starting from the Turret Room, hack the Hyperfluct Generator. If successful, take the rift and skip to 27.<br />
21. If not, then Keep at Range (5000m) from the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery. Lock up one of the Plasma Chambers. Hack the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery, make sure you are within its protection cloud (and wait two seconds after the hack is completed) and then IMMEDIATELY THERAFTER aggress one of the Plasma Chambers. Then immediately proceed back to the revived Hyperfluct Generator. You have just sixty seconds before the alarm is sounded, which will spawn 16 new Sentry Towers. Hack it quickly. Take the rift.<br />
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24. If unsuccessful, then "Keep at Range" (5000m) from the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery. Lock up one of the Plasma Chambers.
22. There are a number of damage clouds in this area. Be mindful of that. Approach the Archive Cerebrum Chambers. A propulsion module helps: straight in from the beacon is fine for now. Don't hack any of them yet.<br />
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25. Hack the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery. Wait two seconds after the hack is completed and make sure you are within its protection cloud. '''Immediately thereafter:'''
23. Hack the Remote Targeting Defense Augmentation Unit. Take your time and try not to fail that one. A Pristine Storage Depot may spawn nearby. Hack it and loot it.<br />
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26. Aggress one of the Plasma Chambers. Immediately proceed back to the revived Hyperfluct Generator. You will have sixty seconds before the alarm is sounded, which will spawn 16 new Sentry Towers. Hack it quickly. Take the rift.<br />
24. Start hacking the Cerebrum Maintenance Chambers. You will need three (3) Intravenous Oscillation Fluid objects. Failure of these hacks may trigger additional Sentry Towers. You may elect to shoot them: I recommend light drones and Light Neutron Blasters (they have a 50m signature radius).<br />
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27. There are a number of damage clouds in this area. Approach the Archive Cerebrum Chambers; a propulsion module will help.<br />
25. Ensure everything is ready, that ship is fit properly and prepared.<br />
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28. Hack the Remote Targeting Defense Augmentation Unit. A Pristine Storage Depot may spawn nearby. Hack it and loot it.<br />
26. Approach the Central Archive Cerebrum. Place only the 3 Intravenous Oscillation Fluid objects inside it.<br />
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29. Start hacking the Cerebrum Maintenance Chambers. You will need three (3) Intravenous Oscillation Fluid objects. Failure of these hacks may spawn additional Sentry Towers. You may elect to destroy them. Light drones are recommended due to their 50m signature radius.<br />
27. At this point, start watching the messages in Local more intently. Storage Depots will begin to spawn nearby. Damage from Shockwaves will also commence after a short time, and increase in magnitude. There may be one Depot which is distanced afar from the regular group. You may cargo scan containers to evaluate their worth. When finished (or dead!), warp out of the site, wait for it to despawn. Warp back to any bookmarked containers left inside the site, and continue on.
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30. Double-check that your ship is fit properly and prepared.<br />
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31. Approach the Central Archive Cerebrum. Place only the 3 Intravenous Oscillation Fluid objects inside it.<br />
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32. At this point, start watching the messages in Local more intently. Storage Depots will begin to spawn nearby. Damage from Shockwaves will also commence after a short time, and increase in magnitude. There may be one Depot which is distanced afar from the regular group. You may cargo scan containers to evaluate their worth. When finished (or dead!), warp out of the site, wait for it to despawn. Warp back to any bookmarked containers left inside the site, and continue on.
  
 
==Visual Guide==
 
==Visual Guide==

Revision as of 17:28, 18 January 2017

Warning this site is very difficult and you have a high chance of losing your ship.

Good ISK can be made by players with medium skills by just completing Room 1 and 2, skipping the mineroom and archive which significantly reduces the risk.

Some Suggestions:

1) Recommend having Tech 2 Data and Relic analyzers

2) Recommend a Cruiser sized ship or larger

3) Recommend a shield or armor repair module

4) Recommend having good resists as the Solray Power Unit and Archive deal regular damage

5) Recommend large buffer to survive failed hacks in all rooms

6) Recommend a cargo scanner to save time

7) Recommend a Microwarp drive

8) Recommend setting your overview to show all large collidable objects


Entry Point/Warp-In

Hyperfluct Generator – Use a Data Analyzer to hack

Failing the hack starts a short timer (30 – 45 seconds for you to attempt a second hack), if you fail again it will explode and you will lose the site with damage to your ship as well

Picture of Entry Point after successful hack

Take the Spatial Rift

Room 1 (May Start with Room 2 first) Solar Power Unit

Entry Message

DO NOT GO NEAR THE Solray Power Unit until you do the steps below:


1) Hack the Solray Observational Unit – Inside this will be Something like a Radio Ray Modulate, or Infrared or Gamma Ray

2) Place the item you looted in the in the corresponding named Alignment Unit

    a.	Solray Radio Alignment Unit
    b.	Solray Gamma Alignment Unit
    c.	Solray Infrared Alignment Unit

Message Upon Stabilizing the Solray Power Terminal

3) Now use the Relic Analyzer on all the cans and retrieve loot. Very small amounts of damage will be coming from the Solar Power Generator (the disc shaped thing)

Solray Power Unit and surrounding depots

Damage Messages

4) Take the right Most Rift in the first picture above, this will warp you to the Rift with the Remote Reroute Unit

  Hack the Remote Reroute Unit.

5) Take the nearby rift back to the other rifts

6) Take the right Most rift, this will lead to a secret room.

7) Secret Room (Often just skipped as the rewards are typically small and don't justify the time or risk taken)

  YOU ARE NOW IN A MINEROOM!  Do not make any sudden moves!
  Wait 15 - 20 seconds - a Remote Defense Grid Unit will appear – DO NOT TURN ON YOUR MWD, GO SLOWLY
  Coming with 10 KM of the Mines will cause them to explode.
  Hack the Remote Defense Grid Unit – Failure will blow up most ships (VERY DIFFICULT HACK)
  Only the very strongest tanked ships with a lot of buffer and resists will survive the blast.
  After you succeed the hack 1 or 2 storage depots will appear.  SLOW BOAT TO THEM (You are in minefield!)

Grid after hacking the Remote Defense Grid Unit

After Relic Analyzing the one or two depots that appeared, SLOW BOAT TO THE Strange Rifts in the distance, you will likely hit small mines for the first 50KM. Make sure you have a strong buffer tank to handle the blast. Once you are 35 KM away from the nearest mine you can start your microwarp drive burn.

8) Take the topmost rift (in the picture below) to get to the next room

Picture of Room

Room 2 – Sentries on Duty (this room may come first)

Entry Message

Picture of the Grid

Overview of Grid

You will be taking Sentry gun damage in this room

1) Immediately burn to the Remote Defense Grid Unit, Hack it

   This will make one of the sentry guns help you: Rewired Sentry Gun

Message after hacking Remote Defense Grid Unit

2) Then immediately burn to the Sentry Repair Station (Preservation Unit is not the correct name, you will not see it on overview) and Hack it

Message about the hostiles targeting you Sentry Gun

3) This will heal your new friendly sentry gun, now wait until it blows up all the other sentry drones. Do not help. Stay within 500 – 1000 of the Sentry Repair Station.

Message after hacking Sentry Repair Station Preservation Unit

4) You may now Analyze the cans on field with mostly safety. However DO NOT GET TOO CLOSE TO THE PLASMA CHAMBERS, should you they will blow up and your ship will too. Do not Shoot them.

Picture of the room

When you get too close to the plasma chambers this message appears:

Message

5) Lastly hack the Hyperfluct Generator, if you are lucky it will spawn a new rift close by (skip to step 7)

6) If you are not lucky but did manage to hack the Generator, you will need to hack the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery (stay close to it) and then upon success immediately shoot one of the Plasma Chambers. The scary blast will destroy most ships if you have NOT hacked the Rejuvenation battery. (makes a great tarp)

7) Enter the Rift


Room 3 – The Archive

Entry Message

You are in NO immediate danger on warp in but alwasys watch the local messages closely from here on out

Picture of Room

Overview of Room

1) Burn with Microwarp drive to the Defense Targeting Augmentation Unit and hack it.

Message after hacking

Note: From this point forward always be moving or orbiting something. The Sentry guns (which will be spawning shortly) will have a very hard time hitting you.

2) Hack 2 or 3 of the Cerebrum Maintenance Chambers (there is no great rush yet)

Message after hacking

This is the kind of thing in the Maintenance Chambers – Loot them

Loot from Maintenance Chambers

3) Put 3 Oscillation Fluids in the Central Archive Cerebrum. (Putting other things in the Cerebrum will result in an explosion that will blow up your ship. – if you want to experiment be prepared to lose ships)

Message if you put 2 Oscillation Fluids in

(This is the message that appears if you only put 2 Oscillation Fluids in the Cerebrum)

Now things will start going fast.

4) The Central Archive will start throwing out containers/depots and vessel rejuvenation batteries


From this point forward there will be Shockwaves that do considerable damage every 30 seconds, a very strongly tanked T3 Proteus with a repper can take about 5-6 sets of the shockwaves (DO NOT RELY on ACTIVE TANK ONLY, Minimum 2 BUFFER MODS recommended). Be aware that if you enter an area that has a cloud around a wreck it will do additional damage to your ship.

5) Burn to them while scanning them to see which one has the most valuable loot, hack it, loot it, and repeat Alternate Strategy: Burn to the Vessel rejuvenation battery, hack it, then you can Analyze two nearby cans while being healed by the Vessel rejuvenation battery.


6) This part of the exploration is a calculation on how much more Analyzing and hacking you can do before losing your ship.


Be aware that after 5 or so waves the shockwaves increase in magnitude and you will see slightly different messages in local. If you aren’t tanking the base shock waves well get out now!


You may warp out and warp back to the site (even though it seems to have despawned from local probe scan, as long as it is within 30 -60 seconds from when you warpout. You can try to go back after healing and try a can or two more but typically the escalated shockwave are still in play.

Superior Sleeper Cache

The Superior Sleeper Cache is a Cosmic Signature that can be found in known space using core scanner probes. The Superior Sleeper Cache is the most difficult of the Sleeper Cache sites, and is possibly the most difficult site that can be found via exploration that does no explicitly require combat. Pilots will be risking their ship when trying this or any other Sleep Cache. However, once familiar with these sites, pilots should be able to run the site without taking any damage. Like all Sleeper Cache sites, the Superior Sleeper Cache requires the use of both Data and Relic Analyzers. While ships up to battleships can enter this site, an exploration frigate is highly recommended in order to make use of their hacking bonuses.

Superior Sleeper Caches are incredibly difficult to scan down compared to most other signatures found in known space, and both excellent scanning skills as well as equipment are required to pinpoint the site completely.

Scanning

A probe strength of at least 103 is needed to scan down a Superior Sleeper Cache. A probe strength of 102 will come very close, but will ultimately not be enough. With a probe strength of 104, the site can be located using a tight cube formation.

To view your probe strength:

  1. Open the fitting window and hover over the probe launcher.
  2. Click the "Show Charge Info" icon.
  3. Under the Attributes tab, you should see "Base Sensor Strength". This is your probe strength.

If another pilot has already entered the site, an alternate means of entry would be to switch to combat probes and give him a visit or "share" the loot, if you know what that means. I try to respect the concept of site ownership, however if people abandon the site, I'll usually finish it.

Ship Fittings

Frigates not capable of running a Superior Sleeper Cache in its entirety.

Frigates are not suitable for:

  • Checking if the Alarm has been activated in the Sentries on Duty room
  • Running the Archive Room
  • Running the Mine Room safely. Completion is possible, but should you fail, you will lose your ship

Otherwise, a Heron or Magnate can complete all other sections of the site.

Icon warning.png Exercise caution when altering these fits. These fits have been demonstrated to work, and alteration may result in failing the site or losing the ship.

The following fit is used for the Solray Room after the Power Terminal has been stabilized.


Heron - Solray Room Fit
Heron: Heron - Solray Room Fit
EFT
[Heron, Heron - Solray Room Fit]

Relic Analyzer II
1MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
Small Shield Booster II
5a Prototype Shield Support I
Eutectic Compact Cap Recharger

Damage Control II
Type-D Restrained Capacitor Flux Coil

Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I



Fitting template high slot label.png
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Fitting template mid slots label.png
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Fitting template drone slots label.png
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Fitting template charge slots label.png
Cargo.png
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FITTING DIFFICULTY
EVE VERSION
YC118 1.0
ALPHA CAN USE
UNSET
EFT
SKILLS
NOTES
RECOMMENDED SKILLS
NOTES
  • As long as you have Capacitor Systems Operation and Capacitor Management to II, you may simply swap the capacitor recharger for a Small Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery, but the Afterburner will have to be used only when needed.
  • As long as the fit can sustain about 40 EHP/sec (EFT/Pyfa figures) indefinitely, it's good enough.
  • Also make sure the Analyzer(s) are set to Auto Repeat OFF.
  • Cargo scan the containers before you use this fit to identify which ones are junk and which ones are not (use a fleet of yourself to allow tagging of containers)
Magnate - SolRay Room
Magnate: Magnate - SolRay Room
EFT
[Magnate, Magnate - SolRay Room]

1MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
Relic Analyzer II
Eutectic Compact Cap Recharger

Small Armor Repairer II
Damage Control II
Type-D Restrained Capacitor Power Relay
Experimental Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I

Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I
Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Small Anti-Explosive Pump I



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Icon hi slot.png
Fitting template mid slots label.png
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Fitting template low slots label.png
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Fitting template subsystem slots label.png
Fitting template drone slots label.png
Icon fit drone.png
Fitting template drone slots label.png
Fitting template charge slots label.png
Cargo.png
Fitting template rig slots label.png
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FITTING DIFFICULTY
EVE VERSION
YC118 1.0
ALPHA CAN USE
UNSET
EFT
SKILLS
NOTES
RECOMMENDED SKILLS
NOTES
  • You may need to swap the afterburner for a Small Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery to achieve capacitor stability.


To run the Sentries on Duty room (Turret Room), use the following:


Heron - Std. Sleeper Cache Site Run
Heron: Heron - Std. Sleeper Cache Site Run
EFT
[Heron, Heron - Std. Sleeper Cache Site Run]

Data Analyzer II
5MN Quad LiF Restrained Microwarpdrive
Medium Azeotropic Restrained Shield Extender
Relic Analyzer II
Type-E Enduring Cargo Scanner

Damage Control II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I



Fitting template high slot label.png
Icon hi slot.png
Icon hi slot.png
Icon hi slot.png
Fitting template mid slots label.png
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icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
Fitting template low slots label.png
icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
Fitting template subsystem slots label.png
Fitting template drone slots label.png
Icon fit drone.png
Fitting template drone slots label.png
Fitting template charge slots label.png
Cargo.png
Fitting template rig slots label.png
icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
FITTING DIFFICULTY
EVE VERSION
YC118 1.0
ALPHA CAN USE
UNSET
EFT
SKILLS
NOTES
RECOMMENDED SKILLS
NOTES
Magnate - Std. Sleeper Cache Site Run
Magnate: Magnate - Std. Sleeper Cache Site Run
EFT
[Magnate, Magnate - Std. Sleeper Cache Site Run]

Relic Analyzer II
Data Analyzer II
5MN Quad LiF Restrained Microwarpdrive

Damage Control II
Small Armor Repairer II
200mm Crystalline Carbonide Restrained Plates
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I

Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I
Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Small Anti-Explosive Pump I



Fitting template high slot label.png
Icon hi slot.png
Icon hi slot.png
Icon hi slot.png
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Fitting template low slots label.png
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Fitting template subsystem slots label.png
Fitting template drone slots label.png
Icon fit drone.png
Fitting template drone slots label.png
Fitting template charge slots label.png
Cargo.png
Fitting template rig slots label.png
icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
icon?size=64&.png
FITTING DIFFICULTY
EVE VERSION
YC118 1.0
ALPHA CAN USE
UNSET
EFT
SKILLS
NOTES
RECOMMENDED SKILLS
NOTES


Use a cargo scanner if possible after completing the two data hacks in the Solray Room.

It can be helpful to use a Small Secure Container (anchor it and set a password!) more so with the Magnate than the Heron. Leave the Secure Container in the Solray Room and bookmark it, and store the loot, cloaks and probe launchers inside it. Bring the Mobile Depot into the Turret Room to refit for the Cargo Scanner after the data hacks are finished.

Quick Guide

ENTRY

1. Scan down the site.
2. Hack the entry container. Enter the site.
3. If you land in the Turret Room, take the nearby Spatial Rift to enter the Solray Power Plant. If you're already in the Solray room, proceed to #4.
4. If you land on the farther side of the site near the Remote Reroute Unit, activate the nearby Rift. You may incur some damage as you warp through the Solray Unaligned Power Terminal.

Always run the Solray Room first.

SOLRAY POWER PLANT

5. Hack the Solray Observational Unit.
6. Open container, and observe the "disc" it grants you. It can either be Infrared, Gamma or X-ray. 7. There are three containers in this room. Place the "disc" into the container which matches the name of the disc. This will align the Solray Power Terminal, which considerably reduces the damage it deals.
8. Approach the container in between the two rifts near the Solray Observational Unit. Drop your Mobile Depot there. Hack the Storage Depot and loot it.
9. Refit to your capacitor stable local repairer fit.
10. Approach the Solray Power Terminal and hack all containers. You may cargo scan them first while the Mobile Depot is up if you wish to skip unworthy containers.
11. Refit back to your generic fit, making sure to bring a Microwarpdrive. Drop all loot and unneeded modules in the Mobile Depot and bookmark it.
12. If you're in a frigate or cruiser that has less than 70,000 EHP of omni-resists, consider skipping Phase 3 and proceed to Phase 4, as failure in that stage will cause you to lose your ship. Take the Spatial Rift near the Gamma Ray container into the Turret Room.

To attempt the Mine Room, take the rift near the Solray Observational Unit.

MINE ROOM

13. Hack the Remote Reroute Unit.
14. Take the Rift nearby to head back to the Rift near the Solray Observational Unit. Take the rift near that object (the Infrared Alignment Unit container is nearby). You may incur some damage upon entering, but is should be manageable.
15. Move around a bit in the same direction slowly (no MWD) until a Remote Defense Grid Unit spawns. Hack it.
16. If successful, hack the nearby Storage Depots.
17. Align back to the Solray Room - visible in the distance - and burn the Microwarpdrive or Micro Jump Drive; alternatively, warp out and back in immediately. Continue on to Phase 4.

SENTRIES ON DUTY

18. Upon entering, look for the nearby Remote Defense Grid Unit. Select "Keep at Range" (5000m) on it. Start hacking it.

WARNING: Failure could mean the loss of your vessel. In the event of failure, warp out and do not re-enter without a strong active tank or solid remote repairs with a strong local buffer.

19. Upon successful hack, immediately burn with the Microwarpdrive to the right towards the Sentry Repair Station. You have enough time for about 2 hack attempts. Hack it. Wait for all Sentry Towers to be eradicated.
20. Hack all loot containers at your leisure. Do not approach the Plasma Chambers nearby. Use "Keep at Range" (2500m) for the can closest to those chambers and approach slowly with no propulsion module active.

WARNING: Do not aggress the Plasma Chambers except under specific circumstances (detailed below). They have enough power to wipe a battleship clean off the field.

21. If you are in a frigate or any cruiser/battleship that cannot handle extreme damage per second (DPS), this will be the extent of possible completion. Go back to your Mobile Depot, refit to travel fit, collect all loot, pick up the Mobile Depot, and warp out.

Otherwise, continue to Phase 5.

ARCHIVE ROOM

You will need a Strategic Cruiser or Nestor to handle this room, with at least 2000 EHP/sec active reps and minimum 50K EHP of buffer. You must be able to both repair and tank considerable damage. A super-tanked cruiser or battlecruiser (such as a Maller or Prophecy) may be capable of surviving for a time with proper use of the Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries. To ensure that loot is not lost in the event of failure, eject loot at regular intervals to be returned to later.

22. Before running the Archive Room, store all loot and unneeded modules in a Small Secure Container or nearby station. Make sure to bookmark the can; containers cannot be scanned down with combat probes. A safe spot works nicely. Bring the mobile depot.
23. Starting from the Turret Room, hack the Hyperfluct Generator. If successful, take the rift and skip to 27.
24. If unsuccessful, then "Keep at Range" (5000m) from the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery. Lock up one of the Plasma Chambers. 25. Hack the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery. Wait two seconds after the hack is completed and make sure you are within its protection cloud. Immediately thereafter: 26. Aggress one of the Plasma Chambers. Immediately proceed back to the revived Hyperfluct Generator. You will have sixty seconds before the alarm is sounded, which will spawn 16 new Sentry Towers. Hack it quickly. Take the rift.
27. There are a number of damage clouds in this area. Approach the Archive Cerebrum Chambers; a propulsion module will help.
28. Hack the Remote Targeting Defense Augmentation Unit. A Pristine Storage Depot may spawn nearby. Hack it and loot it.
29. Start hacking the Cerebrum Maintenance Chambers. You will need three (3) Intravenous Oscillation Fluid objects. Failure of these hacks may spawn additional Sentry Towers. You may elect to destroy them. Light drones are recommended due to their 50m signature radius.
30. Double-check that your ship is fit properly and prepared.
31. Approach the Central Archive Cerebrum. Place only the 3 Intravenous Oscillation Fluid objects inside it.
32. At this point, start watching the messages in Local more intently. Storage Depots will begin to spawn nearby. Damage from Shockwaves will also commence after a short time, and increase in magnitude. There may be one Depot which is distanced afar from the regular group. You may cargo scan containers to evaluate their worth. When finished (or dead!), warp out of the site, wait for it to despawn. Warp back to any bookmarked containers left inside the site, and continue on.

Visual Guide

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First off: Ships not permitted to enter
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Overview of the Solray Power Plant
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Location of Mine Room relative to Solray Room
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Overview of the Sentries on Duty Room
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Closer view of the storage depots
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The vaunted Archive Room
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...and a little further in...
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All key objects locked up
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Overview of most objects
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Shows depot locations and more

PHASE 1: ENTRY

Having scanned down the site, warp to the result.

Look for a Hyperfluct Generator can. If a Spatial Rift is already up, then someone is there, or has been there.

Icon warning.png WARNING:

If the site has already been accessed, quickly check the Directional Scanner in a 1 AU radius to check for wrecks. If there is one at the site, DO NOT ENTER. (Could also check zKillboard.) The Rift in the entry room might send you straight into the Turret Room, which might have had the alarm tripped: unless you have a T3 or Battleship with stiff resistances (an overtanked Maller with two EM and two Thermal hardeners works too), you'll be alpha'd off the field by 16+ Sentry Towers. There is no opportunity to warp out, cloak up, or escape through the nearby rift -- they aggress almost immediately.

Otherwise, continue on with the hack of the Hyperfluct Generator can:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 7/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: The Spatial Rift is spawned, which leads into either the Sentries on Duty area or the Solray Power Plant. Capsules, Dreadnoughts, Carriers, Supercarriers, Titans, and Freighters cannot take the rift.
FAILURE: You have two minutes to attempt a successful hack of this container. If a successful hack is not completed by that time, the site despawns.

Go ahead and take the rift. If you land in the Turret Room, don't panic. Approach and take the nearby Spatial Rift to head to the Solray Power Plant, as the gameplan indicates that is the first room to do first (in case of a catastrophic failure in the Turret Room). Conversely, if you land in the Solray room, there are three places you may land. Look carefully for three containers, and based on which one you landed near, take the appropriate action:

  1. Solray Gamma Alignment Unit: Stay here for now.
  2. Solray Infrared Alignment Unit: Approach the Solray Infrared Alignment Unit.
  3. Solray Radio Alignment Unit: Take the nearby rift which will send your vessel over to the Solray Gamma Alignment Unit zone, although it can also direct you over to near the Infrared Alignment Unit. The destination is random for each site and changes from one site to the next, although it remains consistent in any one site.

PHASE 2: SOLRAY POWER PLANT

Near the Solray Gamma Alignment Unit container, there is a structure named the Solray Observational Unit. This structure, when hacked, allows the hacker to collect a trinket which, when placed in the proper container, reduces the strength of the damage cloud created by the Solray Power Terminal. When warping through the Power Terminal's damage radius, vessels may sustain some damage but it's not too serious to warrant much concern.

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Newb friendly Heron fit doing fine
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Wrong disc in can: No increased DMG or AoE radius found
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Typical contents. Cargo scan and tag unworthy containers
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Dual-rep Stratios barely holding on to Unaligned PT damage
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Hacking the Observational Unit

Go ahead and hack the Alignment Unit.

Icon warning.png Stay on the side opposite the Solray Power Terminal -- it does about 600 DPS omni-damage without being aligned. If someone has been there before, but you can't tell if the Power Terminal is Aligned, the name is changed for one thing, but also you can inspect the Alignment Unit containers to see if the correct disc was placed inside. Last resort - bring in a cruiser that can tank OR a friendly logistics cruiser in: ~650 EHP/sec or roughly 250 HP/sec is enough.

CAN DIFFICULTY: 7/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: The hacker is free to open the container and collect the alignment disc.
FAILURE: No penalty.

Zoom out of the site until you find the correct jetcan to place the alignment disc. There are three: Infrared, Radio and Gamma Ray Alignment Discs. The Infrared Alignment Disc goes in the Solray Infrared Alignment Unit, the Gamma Ray Alignment Disc goes in the Solray Gamma Alignment Unit, and so on. Collect the disc and burn over to the appropriate container: if it's the Radio Alignment Disc, then take the rift near the Solray Observational Unit to warp over to that container, then take that rift back over to the main area.

With the Solray Power Terminal aligned, it does considerably less area of effect (AoE) damage while a vessel is in its proximity, which is about 14-17km in radius from the object itself.

Drop the mobile depot near the lone (Dented or Mangled) Storage Depot which is between the Solray Gamma Alignment Unit and the Infrared Alignment Unit. If your Relic Analyzer II is equipped, hack it while the mobile depot is setting up. Otherwise, wait near it (do not cloak, lest the site may despawn) and after it is ready, refit into the capacitor stable self-repper fit with a Relic Analyzer II. It may be prudent to cargo scan all nearby containers including the ones inside the Power Terminal's proximity to check for dead-end worthless containers. (I have had Intact Storage Depots that were empty.)

CAN DIFFICULTY: VARIES [YELLOW TO RED HACKS]
SUCCESS: The loot is ready to be looted.
FAILURE: No penalty.

With decent 50% resistances to all damage types across the board, the damage cloud does about 15 damage per second. As long as you can repair more than 30 Effective Hit Points (EHP) per second indefinitely, it's perfectly sustainable.

Afterwards, refit back to the generic site running fit with a Microwarpdrive and both Analyzers.

For the frigate pilots, skip the next Phase and go right to Phase 3, below. Tech III Strategic Cruiser and the Nestor battleship may attempt the next step. An overtanked Stratios (2 plates and 2 large shield extenders) should be fine. Frigate pilots should expect to lose their ship.

PHASE 3: MINE ROOM

It has been said before that 70,000 EHP is a recommended figure for tank before attempting this room. Sure it can be done with less, but given the stiff penalty for failure, it's not something that is something that can be absorbed by a frigate hull. On the test server, I deliberately failed the primary container with an overtanked Astero with about 13,000 EHP. It didn't last two seconds. If you had ships to lose, then just use the cheapest T1 exploration hull (the virus strength is a requirement) and stick a Medium Azeotropic Restrained Shield Extender, a Damage Control I, perhaps a Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I and a Data Analyzer II, with nothing else whatsoever. In that case, do this room AFTER completing the Turret Room. Good luck.

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Taking damage upon entry to the room itself
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Setting up for a deliberate failure
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13k EHP Astero didn't stand a chance
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All the damage in this room from a failure

Anyways, to access this room, take the rift near the Solray Observational Unit. (Note: The Solray Power Terminal must be aligned first for the rift to work properly, even if the Reroute Unit has been hacked.) It leads next to the Solray Radio Alignment Unit. Hack the Remote Reroute Unit:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 7/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: The rift is recalibrated to point towards the Mine Room.
FAILURE: No penalty.

What this does is change the direction of the rift near the Solray Observational Unit to point towards the Mine Room instead of near the Radio Alignment Unit. Take the nearby Rift to head back to the main area, then take the rift near the Observational Unit into the Mine Room itself.

Expect to eat about 800 damage upon landing or shortly thereafter from a hidden mine. Upon landing, you should see a Remote Defense Grid Unit. DO NOT activate a Microwarpdrive if you have one equipped as you approach the container. It is approximately 7km off the beacon, some slow manual piloting may be required:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 10/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: A Pristine Storage Depot and possibly one or two lower grade containers are spawned.
FAILURE: Expect to take 10000-25000 damage.

Continue by hacking the containers if successful:

CAN DIFFICULTY: VARIES [YELLOW TO RED HACKS]
SUCCESS: The loot is available to be scooped up.
FAILURE: No penalty.

When finished, you may Micro Jump Drive back to the main area, burn a Microwarpdrive, or just warp out and warp back in. Continue on to the Turret Room.

PHASE 4: SENTRIES ON DUTY

This room can be definitely challenging, but for frigate pilots, this is where the good stuff generally is. There can also be some spectacular failures here too.

Icon warning.png WARNING:

1. If the Alarm has been tripped in this room, there can be in excess of 16 Sentry Towers active, and frigates will not stand a chance: there also can be no warning that it has been tripped. Overtanked Mallers and other hardened ships can survive the initial damage and subsequent DPS. If coming from the Solray Room, the message indicating the Alarm has been tripped shows up only after the ship is already in warp!
2. Do not apply any hostile module or weapon onto the Plasma Chamber structures unless specifically instructed to do so. They have enough power to alpha a battleship off the grid (or a small fleet).
3. Do not engage the initial Sentry Towers. Doing so will instantly trip the alarm and spawn the 16 Perimeter Defense sentry towers. The maximum number of Sentry Towers that may be active appears to be 32 (16 Perimeter, 6 initially deployed, and 10 'proximity' ones).


Prepare your eyes for a massive overflow of images. All of them are relevant and in some respects, fascinating.

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The warning that the alarm is up only shows AFTER the ship is in warp
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Another image: Instant aggression, no chance to escape
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Just "wandering in": activating the Proximity Sentries
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Aggressing towers instantly triggers alarm
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Activation radius of Towers indicated to be 120km
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Special Astero fit warping in: First volley...
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...and second volley...dead
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All 16 Perimeter Towers visible
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Proximity towers activated because RDGU not hacked
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Turning 180 deg, activating MJD to snipe Towers
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Sniping with 1400s. Kind of tricky
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Hacking the Repair station...didn't save the friendly tower
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Even with friendly tower down, hostile towers self-damage to death
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Sucessful hack of the Repair Station completed
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Using a 829 EHP/sec Maller to forcefully hack away
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It's still rather dangerous, but doable (rec. 950 EHP/sec)
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After being forced to warp out, Towers not aggressing...???
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Failure to hack RDGU...
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...And..Dead!!
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Successful hack of Hyperfluct Gen., Rift active
Hacking the repair station early does nothing

Starting from the Solray Room, leaving the Mobile Depot near the lone Storage Depot, make sure to do three things before this room is attempted:

  1. Bookmark the location of the Mobile Depot in the Solray Power Plant.
  2. Drop all loot and unneeded modules into the Mobile Depot.
  3. Refit into the appropriate fit.

After that, take the Spatial Rift near the Solray Gamma Alignment Unit container. Upon landing, don't worry: the Sentry Towers will not aggress unless a player strays too close to the loot containers. However, all players must play close attention to these instructions.

The Remote Defense Grid Unit in the room has three functions. First, it disables any proximity based Sentry Towers from forming. Secondly, it re-wires a hostile Sentry Tower into a friendly one. Thirdly, it recalibrates the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery into one that can be hacked to configure it to repair the friendly Sentry Tower. If a player simply approaches the Storage Depots and ignores the RDGU procedure, then not only will the 6 initial Towers aggress, but up to 10 additional new Sentry Towers can spawn.

The first order of business then becomes apparent: hack the Remote Defense Grid Unit itself. Take your time on this hack, and try to do it right the first time: there is no rush. It will then aggress the other 5 Sentry Towers, and in turn take damage itself. But it can't sustain the incoming damage for long, so by hacking the Sentry Repair Station, it will provide armor and shield reps to our friendly Tower. (The friendly Tower cannot receive remote repairs from vessels.)

Start by hacking the Remote Defense Grid Unit:

Icon warning.png WARNING: A present bug in the site seems to indicate that failure of this next hack will spawn the Sentry Towers regardless of whether a successful rehack has been completed. So the countdown to the perimeter Sentries will not be actually canceled, no warning in Local that they are about to spawn, instead you will find 16 Sentry Towers will spawn anyways. In a frigate, warp off the site immediately if you fail the hack. Cruisers and above which can run the Archive Room may choose Plan B.

CAN DIFFICULTY: 9/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: The closest Sentry Tower becomes friendly, and aggresses the other Sentry Towers to blow them up, and will in turn begin taking damage itself from the other Sentry Towers.
FAILURE: A timer is generated which will activate the Alarm in 45 seconds. When the 45 second timer is up, the RDGU explodes and there is no other way to proceed without some fairly stiff tanking abilities. At the 45 second timer mark, the site spawns the 16 Perimeter Defense sentry towers, for a total of 22 Sentry Towers. Frigates won't last on field.

Approximate DPS of all 16 Perimeter Towers (varies)

For Cruisers and above, there is Plan B.

Continuing on, IMMEDIATELY after hacking this container, active the Microwarpdrive and burn towards the Sentry Repair Station located near the right of your present position. There is enough time for 2 hacks, maybe 3 fast hacks, before the hostile Sentry Towers destroy the friendly Tower:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 8/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: The Station will provide shield and armor repairs to the friendly Rewired Sentry Gun.
FAILURE: No penalty, although if a successful hack is not completed before the hostile Sentry Towers destroy the friendly Tower, then some Towers will remain.

At the present time, I have not seen the hostile Towers aggress my vessel after failure to hack the Sentry Repair Station in time. Instead the hostile Towers seemed to keep incurring damage and eventually destruct, even with the Rewired Sentry Gun destroyed. This is another bug of the site itself. Should it be fixed in the future, simply revert to Plan B. Do not aggress the Sentry Towers with weaponry: it will instantly trigger the 16 Perimeter Defense Sentry Towers.

Assuming a successful hack of the Sentry Repair Station, simply sit near the Repair Station and wait for the hostile Towers to be eradicated. There is a rather serious hazard to the north of the warp-in, namely 3 Unstable Plasma Chambers. Getting too close to these could be fatal, and will trip the alarm on top of that. (Hacking the Sentry Repair Station before the RDGU does nothing, although a message appears in Local: "Hacking the repair station has no discernible effects on anything in the vicinity. The station continues to provide repair services to to the nearby sentry guns.")

When all is clear, the loot is there for the taking, and one may loot and hack in peace with (aside from the nearby hazard) no particular danger:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 6 - 9/10 [YELLOW to RED HACKS]
SUCCESS: The loot can be scooped up.
FAILURE: No penalty.

Do NOT hack the Hyperfluct Generator container yet.

As you're working on the hacks, avoid using the Microwarpdrive, use Keep at Range (2250m) on the last can near the group of Plasma Chambers, and move slowly, around 100m/sec to avoid triggering the Plasma Chambers. After all worthy containers are hacked, the frigate pilots are done. Take the Spatial Rift to head back to the Solray Room, refit to a travel fit if needed, scoop up any contents inside the Mobile Depot (if it is scooped to the cargohold directly, a jetcan is left behind), pack up the Mobile Depot and depart.

For the T3 Cruisers, Nestor and other similar battleship-level tanked ships, if there was no Mobile Depot left behind anywhere in any other room, you may now proceed to the vaunted Archive Room.

These images below cover the detonation of the Plasma Chambers.

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A humble frigate: Gone
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Stratios: Dead
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Stratios lossmail
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And this triple-plated Hyperion too (MWD was probably on)
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Buffer-tanked Maelstrom (79K EHP shields)
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Even a frigate is safe if the cloud is active
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The explosion re-activates the Hyperfluct Generator
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Making a line of Atrons to 250km
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From 195km with a Vigil, all Atrons exploded out to 250km
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Took more Atrons from 250 to 350km

PHASE 5: THE ARCHIVE ROOM

It may be very worthwhile reading this before this room is attempted, and watching a video of someone else running it. It's pretty dangerous.

First case: Rift Spawns immediately: otherwise, detonation required

Starting from the Sentries on Duty room, there should be a Hyperfluct Generator container. Hacking it produces two outcomes:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 9/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS:
First case: A Spatial Rift is generated, which allows immediate access to the Archive Room.
Second case: A Spatial Rift is not generated, so you'll have a harder time. Here's what needs to be done:

  1. Lock up one of the Unstable Plasma Chambers. Make sure you have some kind of high slot weapon: drones will not work. Even a 125mm Autocannon on a Nestor is enough. Do not shoot it yet.
  2. Start hacking the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery, but do NOT finish the hack. When you find the core, and are 1-2 clicks away from success, get ready for the next bit below.

FAILURE: No penalty.

CAN DIFFICULTY: 8/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: A cloud is generated which approximates the area of healing reps. It evaporates after 10 seconds, so timing is important. The cloud will protect even a frigate from the incredible power of the explosion.
FAILURE: No penalty.

Just after you finish the hack, watch Local to see when the message pops up informing of the activation, then quickly shoot a Plasma Chamber. The Vessel Rejuvenation Battery's mad reps will protect you. Quickly turn on the Microwarpdrive over to the now-revived Hyperfluct Generator. There are just 60 seconds to attempt a successful hack before the Perimeter Defense System comes online. When that happens, 16 new Sentry Towers appear. Frigates won't last. Ships that can run the Archive Room fine will be okay to repeat attempts until the Rift is generated.

Assuming the hack goes through in time, take the rift into the Archive Room itself.

Landing in the vaunted Archive Room, it's time to take in the scenery. There is plenty of local attractions which cause hurt: Sentry Towers, damage clouds near various objects (Smoldering Archive Ruins), and then Shockwaves. There are a number of tasks to perform in this room.

Begin by approach the Defense Targeting Augmentation Unit. From the beacon, a straight line approach is fine. Go ahead and hack it. Before we go farther, any failed hacks in this room may spawn additional Sentry Towers. May:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 8/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: The Sentry Towers, which already have atrocious tracking ability, suffer an additional tracking penalty.
FAILURE: Standard failure result of any can in this site: May spawn additional Sentry Towers.

A successful hack also has the opportunity to spawn a Pristine Storage Depot nearby. You may hack it and loot it. Proceed on to hacking the Cerebrum Maintenance Chambers. Each functions like a normal data or relic site object: it must be hacked first before it can be opened. Same hacking difficulty and failure results as before, red hacks. For the Central Archive Cerebrum to begin operating, three Cerebrum Oscillation Fluid objects are needed, the other items like the Self-Regulating Machine Gears and what not are just scrap. Therefore, hack enough Cerebrum Maintenance Chambers to get what is required:

CAN DIFFICULTY: 8/10 [RED HACK]
SUCCESS: The contents may be extracted.
FAILURE: Additional Sentry Towers may spawn.

I like to shoot the Sentry Towers that lie around the perimeter. As they have a 50m signature radius, Light Neutron Blasters and light drones work good enough. Depending on your fit, their absence can be enough to make sure your tank lasts long enough.

Having 3 Oscillation Fluids (or more) in your cargo hold, go ahead and Open Cargo on the Central Archive Cerebrum.

Place 3 of those Oscillation Fluid items into the Cerebrum; more is not necessary, but 2 won't work either. (The E-UNI wiki says an explosion can occur if foreign material is inserted into the Cerebrum. A test run did not incur such an event.) At this point, a couple of things are initiated: first, the Central Archive Cerebrum will eject Storage Depots of varying grades, and Shockwaves will start coming. The first set are tankable fine in a standard Tech III Strategic Cruiser, though the double massive Shockwaves will most likely be more than most fits and skills can handle. The basic idea then becomes a question of how many cans can be hacked and looted before the incoming damage is more than can be safely tolerated.

Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries will also be ejected from the Cerebrum itself. These are cool. Details are below: they are Data hacks.

Make sure to check for other containers around the area, for those looking to complete the room fully. When finished, warp out. Those who left Mobile Depots in other rooms may need to warp back to collect them and refit for a travel fit.

Congratulations: you have completed the most challenging Sleeper Cache the game has to offer.

Pictures. Let's see them.

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Brute-force hacking with a Maller
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We're here: burning to DTAU
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Optional step: Shooting sentry towers
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Time to get to work: all vital objects locked up
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Failed a hack. Note locations of towers
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Three Intravenous Fluids going in
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Archive activated. First sets of cans ejected
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First shockwaves commencing
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A bit late to shoot towers: also 1400s not so good
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Approximate damage (from 100% shields) from one Massive Shockwave
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Colossal waves beginning shortly. Man mode activated!
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Initial alpha even with reppes on pushes the shields down low
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Damage is brutal
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Getting close near Smoldering Archive Ruins
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Weak tanks just don't last
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Hyperion down to half armor from one colossal (didn't last)
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Let's put some junk in there...
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No explosion. Okay...for now?
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Activated a VRB: SERIOUS repping power (fixed up shields against incoming DPS!)
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So much power, I am tanking it at 100% in shield

Videos. Everybody loves them. Here is a video of a Nestor being used (note the hack failure in the Mine Room); a triple rep Legion (also shiny); and finally, another Legion video where the turret room has all the sentry guns spawned.