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Brief Description
Escalation of Desolate Site.
Difficulty
Easy
Rewards
- drone alloys, T1 salvage, T2 salvage, drone components
Detailed description
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.
1st step:
Group A: 4x [F]Drone, 2x [F+]Drone, 1x [F++]Drone
After destroing part of the A group, B group spawns
Group B: 4x [F]Drone
Approaching the drone bunkers spawns group C:
Group C: 3x [F]Drone, 3x [D]Drone
Destroying group C is followed by "group" D:
Group D: 1x [F]Drone
No further data available
step3: marauder, shredder, devilfish drones, 15 of them. no respawn afaik
in step 2: 14 drones (6+8) of hunter, shatter, render, shredder & decimator alvi; light respawn of 3 drones, same types.
the steps 1 to 4/5? are in high sec, each step having about 12-18 drones, beginning in 2 gruops of 4-5 drones and 1 spawn group. always 1 sentient drone with chance of t2 salvage (rarely) and mostly drone capillary fluid, d. synaptic relay and/or d. cerebral fragment inside. last step in lowsec i havent tried… besides, very few salvage stuff, mostly lootable drone compounds en mass…
last message saying something like… "you realize that all those containers bear the signs of the same space station. in your databank you see that said space station has been destroyed decades ago and now lays abandoned. you are setting your destination once again."…
You notice that all of these cans bear the markings of the same space station. After checking in your databanks, you find that this particular station was destroyed decades ago and has remained deserted ever since. You retrieve the location…
When I killed the sentient I got this pop-up and the expedition ended:
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.
However part of the first wave was still flying and the second wave spawned as this message appeared. Then, whilst I was looting and salvaging, a third wave spawned either through proximity or time - a few minutes after I'd killed the last drone in wave 2. I flew around randomly for a while but never saw a fourth wave.
The current strategy chosen by the drones seems to be running away as fast as they can. Your instruments have no problems tracking their destination.
Another escalation…
sorry dont know how to give u more info..im guess when i dropped the sentient it pulled a new wave and then give me the escalation.
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:
Got this it escalated again.