Brief Description
Medium difficulty (DED 4/10) High and Low-sec Serpentis Complex (less common in high-sec).
Difficulty
HAC - Easy (Ishtar, dual MAR2, 85-90% TH/KI armor resists)
Allowed ships
DED 4/10 - max. battlecruiser class vessel
Rewards
- 7th, 8th Tier Overseer Personal Effects
- Shadow Serpentis and Corelum C-Type modules
- T2 salvage
- Bounty ~ 4M ISK
Detailed description
Warping to the site's entrance accel. gate shows the following message:
The Serpentis-Phi alliance control this mining outpost. Business is limited but the owners of the outpost are nevertheless well-off.
DED Threat Assessment: Risky (4 of 10)
1st Pocket:
Another message pops-up when inside the complex:
You stumble on to an entry that probably should not be in the public database…
'Important - The mission into the Outpost was not a success. Our agent crashed somewhere along with his cargo. Recommend a salvage mission ASAP!'
The timer on the message shows this to be a very recent entry in the database, only a few hours old or so.
Group A: 1x [F]Serpentis, 1x [C]Serpentis
Group B: 16x [F]Serpentis, 4x [C]Serpentis, 3x [BC]Serpentis
After destroying most of the NPCs, you can access the Electronically sealed container located inside the Hollow Asteroid. The container holds the 'Stolen Key' (needed to use the accel. gate leading to the 2nd pocket), 7th Tier Overseer Personal Effects and sometimes a Shadow Serpentis module. The gate itself is also synchronized with one of the NPCs (probably one of the cruisers)
Activating the accel. gate leading to the 2nd pocket shows the following message:
The asteroid colonies that have been built here are for show only. This deadspace pocket contains labs and bunkers for enhancment drugs production and advanced neural experimental implanting.
Nice info and to the point. Now the question is: Does one shoot or break out the wallet?
2nd Pocket:
Group A: 18x [F]Serpentis, 9x [C]Serpentis, 3x [BC]Serpentis, 1x [BS*]Serpentis Phi-Operation Protector (bounty 2.5M ISK)
The Phi-Operation Protector is the one you want to take out to loot the precious Corelum C-Type and Shadow Serpentis modules (+ 8th Tier Overseer Personal Effects). Don't forget to salvage the sucker (possibly lots of T2 salvage).
Escalation
None found. No mention of escalation in any of the exploration information sources or forum posts. However, a cosmic anomaly called Serpentis Port escalated to this complex.
I ran two of these sites tonight, and scored big on the second. 3 Corelum mods, including the C type ENAM, C type Med Armor repper, AND a freaking Vigilant BPC
Junk. Best was to salvage, made more from the T2 salvage alone than the drops+bounties. Everything dropped was Meta 1 and a useless remote repper (the cap cost is higher than T2 it seems, remote reppers eat most of your cap). Major nerf to exploration, thanks again CCP devs, guess you don't understand a happy customer is a paying customer.
Just did this in a Mym no hardners. The BS got me to 50% structure but managable. Dropped a nice med shadow serp remote repper along with OPE and some meta 4 stuff.
Runned it few times this week
got 2 c-type mwd's, reactive and magnetic energized membranes, adaptive membrane and some neat t2 salvage
done in about 7 minutes in wolf + ishkur
Wow, what a crock. Nothing of any value at all in this bloody thing. Waste of an hour and a half. Sure it's fun, but ya expect some kind of reward for your time.. it is a bloody game after all.
Successfully completed in a cap boosting Cyclone w/ charges to spare using 5x650mm arties / 3x heavy launchers. Avoid letting the cruisers get under 10k and there will not very much damage coming in in either pockets.
Serpentis Mag. Field Stabilizer from the Electronically sealed contrainer and some C-type energized plating from Battleship
Dropped C-Type Med Rep and C-Type ENAM.
I did this complex in an Ishkur, using a blaster fit to deal with the big targets and my drones to deal with the small targets. Kited groups of rats aroudn till all frigates were dead and then proceeded to clear the bigger targets, that couldn't hit me anyway, myself.
I did, however, have problems getting through the tank of the Phi officer. I kited him outside of the grid till the leash pulled him back, this apparantly turns off his armor repairer. I did however, progressed slowly on his armor even with the repairer on so people with better gunnery skills then me probably wont need to do this.
He dropped a Corelum C-type MAR and a Energized Reflective Membrane for me.,
My Ishkur however, could more then handle the damage output, in the second room with carefull kiting, they didn't even break my shield. I didn't need more then a few pulses of my Coreli C-Type SAR to deal with the damage from the second room (pulled in 2 waves seperately)
~Duskii
got some sweet lootz 300mil
done this a few times, drop varys between nothing, shadow serp gear, coreli a-type, corelum c-type, and got vigilant bpc from it twice