Hunting the Drudge Factory

Expedition

Hunting the Drudge Factory
Escalates From
Security	Highsec, Lowsec
Regions	Essence
Max Stages	4
Pirate type	Rogue Drones

NPC's, Spawn and Trigger Information

Part 1

Initial Defenders

9 x (Frigate) Devilfish/Silverfish/Strain/Sunder Alvi

5 x (Frigate) Strain Decimator/Infester Alvi (Stasis webifier, Warp disruptor)

1 x (Commander Frigate) Sentient Marauder Alvior (Trigger; drops components for faction drones, Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip and may give Tech 2 salvage when salvaged.)

4 x (Cruiser) Annihilator Alvum

Reinforcements

4 x Centior Misshape

5 x Centum Juggernaut

"Dead end message: Arriving at the only recognizable location in the files you found, you come across a blown out rogue drone hive. Whatever this once was, it obviously is no more...."

"Expedition message: Arriving at the most recent location in the files, you come across a blown out rogue drone hive, someone must have been here before you. Thankfully there are a couple of other locations in those files that make any sense to your navigation systems, the closer one being...."

Part 2

Initial Defenders

2 x (Cruiser) Defeater Alvatis

1 x (Commander Cruiser) Sentient Destructor Alvum (Trigger; drops components for faction drones and may give Tech 2 salvage when salvaged.)

"Dead end message: Here you come across a blown out rogue drone hive. Whatever this once was, it obviously is no more.... And no matter how many times you run the other coordinates in the files through your navigation systems, they can not come up with a valid destination. It seems like this little expedition is at an end."

"Expedition message: Arriving at one of the remaining locations in the files, you come across a blown out rogue drone hive, someone must have been here before you. There is one other location here that makes any sense to your navigation systems."

Part 3

Empty when warping in.

Wave 1

2 x (Frigate) Strain Silverfish Alvi

2 x (Destroyer) Marauder Alvior

1 x (Commander Cruiser) Sentient Annihilator Alvum (chance to drop Drone faction module)

"Expedition message: Well, that was a surprise. Rogue drones, turned carebears and mining their cogs off! Why? Perhaps this navigational beacon will lead you to some answers."

Part 4

Initial Defenders

3 x (Frigate) Strain Splinter Alvi (Stasis Webifier)

3? x (Cruiser)

Wave 2

3 x (Frigate) Strain Render/Splinter Alvi (Stasis Webifier)

1 x (Frigate) Hive Overseer (drops Drone and T2 Salvage components)

3? x (Cruiser)

Containers

6 x Loot containers (5th Tier Overseer's Personal Effects possible drop)

"Expedition end message: Rogue drones mining and gathering resources far and wide to supply a huge drone factory! This scale of operations does not seem to fit anything you have seen or heard about them before and this level of organization kind of takes the "rogue" out of "rogue drones". You are pretty sure that somewhere, some authority would love to get a report on this. But on second thought... all the paperwork involved would probably be enough to exhaust a black hole."

Escalation

This complex has a chance of triggering the Hunting the Drudge Factory escalation again.

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
Chemical Yard	Huttaken	high	-
Location 1	Raussinen	high	7
Location 2	?	high	?
Location 3	?	high	?
Location 4	?	low	?