Upwell Covert Research Facilities

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Upwell Covert Research Facilities are combat anomalies, which are part of the ingame Lightning Strikes event running from the 15th to 29th of June 2020. They are found on the anomaly scanner in low security space as well as areas of nullsec associated with Upwell member corporations.

NPCs

The rats found and fought in the combat anomalies are Rogue Drones. They come in four types, each with its damage type and resist hole, as well as in different hull classes with different EWAR.

Damage and resist holes

  • Type-A : EM damage and weakness
  • Type-B : Thermal damage and weakness
  • Type-C : Kinetic damage and weakness
  • Type-D : Explosive damage and weakness

EWAR

  • Frigates: Scram and web
  • Destroyer: point and neut
  • Cruiser: point and weapon distrubt
  • Battlecruiser: point

Upwell Covert Research Facilities

The combat anomaly is an ungated pocket in space. Once entered it will appear as a beacon in the overview for all players. The site consists of 4 waves of random ships and a final boss wave.

Each wave will have 3-7 random ships.


Waves x4
WD EWAR L


Frigate 0-4 x Frigate random Anomalous Alvi
Destroyer 0-2 x Destroyer random Anomalous Alvior
Cruiser 0-2 x Cruiser random Anomalous Alvum
Cruiser 0-2 x Cruiser Renewing Anomalous Alvatis

The final wave is always the same. The Swarm Overmind spawns alone. It does heavy neuting, points and webs.


Final wave
WD EWAR L


Battleship 1 x Battleship Swarm Overmind 2102 Kill to make the cache decloak Warp Disruptor Neut Web faction modules, BPC, EDENCOM crafting materials.


Structures
WD EWAR L

Notable structures

Structure 1 x Decloaked Backup Storage Vault clear the site for it to decloak. Destroy it to get loot. BPCs, skillbooks, boosters, materials.

Rewards

The rewards from clearing this site is:

  • BPCs
  • Skillbooks
  • Boosters
  • Crafting Materials

Bounty from clearing this site is about 20.000.000 ISK.

Escalation

Site Details
EDENCOM Covert Research Headquaters
Type
Rating
Found in
Max ship size
Pirate faction
Damage to deal
Damage to
Resist
Sig. Strength

Destroying the Swarm Overmind can make the site escalate to the EDENCOM Covert Research Headquaters. This escalation comes in two parts and are increasingly more difficult.