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Brief Description
This is the escalation/expedition of the Provisional Serpentis Outpost complex. It is triggered by destroying the Serpentis Armory in the second pocket of the complex.
Difficulty
HAC - Easy (TH/KI resists)
Rewards
- T1/T2 Salvage
- Shadow Serpentis Brass Tags
- Shadow/Guardian Charge M
- Low-grade Snake implants
Detailed description
It seemed for a while you would manage to get all of the pirates, but evidently one of the guard ships from the Guardian Angels has slipped away. Luckily your scanners seem to have gathered enough information to give you its approximate destination.
1st Step:
1st Pocket:
Group A: 3x [D]Serpentis, 4x [BC]Serpentis, 1x[C++]Serpentis
2nd Pocket:
The second pocket is full of Serpentis scum, however half of them disappears.
Group A: 2x [F+]Serpentis, 2x [C]Serpentis, 2x [BC]Serpentis, 3x [C+]Serpentis
Unfortunately, the only instance of this expedition I got ended after the first step (without a message).
Lots of work for crap reward. Got C-type remote armor repair (10m).
Solo'd this in a HML Caracal. The only trouble was the last room. I attacked Jaroon, and not paying attention, spawned all the ships. If you are 30-40km? from Jaroon he does no damage. I AB'd away then warped back to the marker, killed Jaroon, then Marin (Serp Overseer), scooped my loot and left. The escalations were in Amarr/Gallente low-sec, which thankfully was quiet and I was not bothered by griefers/pirates.
I followed this escalation to the end, and the last room gave me quite the fight.
Upon warping in to the 4th escalation encounter, I was in a room with no rats and a whole bunch of LCO's. One of the LCO's was a large asteroid with spikes coming out of two opposing ends, and it was called "Jaroon".
Upon approaching "Jaroon" no rats spawned, so I decided to fire at it. Two things then happened.
A: Approximately 4 frigates and 6 BC/cruisers showed up on top of me.
B: My shields melted.
I was in a well tanked (for Serpentis damage) Ishtar, and didn't think anything of it. I turned on my tank and deployed drones vs. the rats. Then, suddenly, my armor dropped to 40% in one hit.
I decided to back off and read my logs to see what had happened. According to the logs, the "Jaroon" had hit me for almost 1000 damage with each shot. I didn't even see the thing firing at me. So, I looked around and noticed red text in the local channel. Apparently "Jaroon" has a smartbomb, and uses it against nearby enemies. Since I'd been able to collect my drones, I figured this damage was not really dealt in the same way as a smart bomb, but just against specific targets. I decided to head back in.
The second time in , I simply ignored the "Jaroon" and took care of the rats. After they were gone, I sicced my drones on the station. It never fired at myself or the drones again. So, work to the wise, do NOT attack Jaroon directly unless you are prepared to take ~1000 damage hits on a regular basis.
Jaroon called for reinforcements several times, each time summoning more frigs, cruisers, and BC's. I believe there was a total of 4 waves.
Upon the destruction of Jaroon, one final group of bad guys showed up. This group was somewhat worrying. 6 x webifier frigates, 6 or so BC's, and a named Serpentis overseer. I can't recall the name, but it was a cruiser with a 881k bounty. This cruiser dropped the following:
Medium Hybrid Faction Ammo
Shadow Serp brass tag
Corelum C-Type 10MN AB
Corelum C-Type 10MN MWD
This escation had some decent challenge to it, though it wasn't overly hard. It did, however, send me running all around Minmatar space (I'm Galllente) to seek out the expedition locations. I'm happy with the rewards though! Just be prepared for dealing with some drawn out PvP in low-sec.
number 4, again by killing the shadow rat:
"It looks like a Serpentis excecutive vessel the angels were escorting got away during the fight. Luckily for you though, one of its communication devices seems to be malfunctioning and is for no apparent reason sending out a constant stream of sentimental and dreamy meditation muzak. Your instruments have no problems tracing where it is coming from. This wailing extremely irritating. Aggrivating too. The muzak of doom. "
i got the 3rd one, by killing the shadow rat:
"To your dismay, the main computers of this station took a direct hit during your assault and any information that might have been there is gone up in smoke. However, your instruments ran through the data from the fleeing ships and have come up with this location as a suggestion to where they might have warped. "
Got the 2nd step to this escalation:
"The station databanks contain information on the local Guardian Angel security network and among it; a location of yet another station similar to this one. That is your best clue as to where the ships that fled as you entered have gone."
Off to see what that entails.
you have to shoot the listening post to continue its a large collideable structure.