Blood Owned Station

Expedition

Blood Owned Station
Escalates From	Minor Blood Annex
Security	Lowsec, Null Sec
Regions	?
Max Stages	4
Pirate type	Blood Raiders

Please note: This article needs improvement, if you come across this expedition please take a moment to more fully document the ships and locations found here.

The Blood Owned Station expedition is an escalation of the Minor Blood Annex combat site found by Probing for exploration sites. This expedition consists of four different locations, the first three of which are in low security systems. The last location is in null sec.

The expedition begins with the destruction of the Blood Cathedral in the last room of a Minor Blood Annex with this message:

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Location 1 (Low sec)

Defenders

6 x (Sentry) (Blood Raider Cruise Missile Launcherl)

5-6 x (Elite Frigate) Mercenary Wingman

5 x (Battleship) Mercenary Overlord

1 x (Battlecruiser Commander) Dark Blood Corpatis Spectre (wreckage may contain Dark Blood Modules)

This site does very heavy explosive damage - keep this in mind if you have been tanking specifically against Blood Raiders

Structures

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"Among the things you find are a few drones. Running a scan on their control units reveals they have been used not long ago, at another place not far away from here."

Location 2 (Low sec)

Room 1

Defenders

7 x (Cruiser) Corpum ?

1 x (Cruiser Commander) Dark Blood Fanatic (Escalation Trigger) (wreckage may contain Dark Blood Modules and produce Tech 2 salvage)

Gates

1 x Acceleration Gate

Escalation message:

"All these moon mining stations suggest there must be a station or outpost somewhere in the region servicing them and refining the raw materials they produce. Again you look for clues from the drones and again the data you extract suggest a new location not too far away."

Room 2

Message in local: "It seems this Moon Mining facility has fallen prey to Rogue Drones. The structural makeup of this facility indicates it once belonged to the Blood Raiders.

Defenders

5 x (Sentry) ?

7 x (Frigate) Alvii ?

2 x (Battleship) Alvus Parasite

Location 3 (Low sec)

Defenders

6 x (Sentry) Cruise Missile Battery

1 x (Sentry) Stasis Tower (Stasis Webifier)

3 x (Frigate) Corpii Collector/Seeker (Tracking Disruption)

3 x (Cruiser) Corpum ?

5 x (Battleship) Corpus Archbishop/Harbinger (Energy Vampire)

1 x (Cruiser Commander) Dark Blood Phantom (Escalation Trigger) (wreckage may contain Dark Blood Modules and meta modules and may produce Tech 2 salvage)

Structures

1 x Starbase Major Maintenaince Facility (Logistics?)

"Going through data scanned during the destruction of the station itself, you notice reports from a place called "R&D division Red", containing information on blueprint research and booster production and even the location of this base "Red"."

Location 4 (Null sec)

Defenders

2 x (Sentry) Starbase Cruise Missile Battery

4 x (Elite Frigate) Elder Corpii ? (Stasis Webifier, Warp Scramble)

4 x (Elite Cruiser) Elder Corpum ?

7 x (Battleship) Corpus Cardinal/Monsignor

Structures

? x Starbase Ultrafast Silos

1 x Blood Research Outpost (wreckage may contain Corpum A-Type modules) (Attacking triggers high damage continuous smartbomb for a while: 2000 damage every 2-3 seconds alternating between kinetic and thermal.)

"This Research Station has a built-in defense system. As soon as it is attacked, the inhabitants activate the system, causing a large blast-wave which affects all hostile ships in the vicinity. It is activated continuously until it needs a short delay to recharge power." --Message in Local

"Now, you kind of regret killing the Overseer back there, it is always useful to know corrupt leaders who are ready to sell out things like this outpost in exchange for something as cheap as their own petty lives."

What Overseer? When is this message triggered?

Required Travel

There may be significant travel involved in completing an expedition. In one instance of this expedition, the sequence of systems the locations appeared in were:

Progression	System	Sec	Jumps
Minor Blood Annex	?	low	-
Location 1	?	low	8
Location 2	?	low	?
Location 3	?	low	?
Location 4	?	null	?