Mare Sargassum

Expedition

Mare Sargassum
Escalates From	Desolate Site
Security
Regions
Max Stages
Pirate type	Rogue Drones

This escalation is described in Desolate Site

Escalation

Pop up message

"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."

Location #1

Initial Spawn (All aggro on warp in)

5 x Raider Alvi (Frigate)

1 x Sunder Alvi (Frigate) (Trigger)

1 x Sentient Devilfish Avi (Commander Frigate)

Reenforcement Wave 1

3 x Devilfish Alvi (Frigate)

Reenforcement Wave 2 - spawns when bunkers are approached

4 x Raider Alvi (Frigate)

Reenforcement Wave 3 - spawns when Wave 2 is destroyed

2 x Sunder Alvi (Frigate)

Please note: Drone Bunkers may contain Alloys and Compounds when destroyed.

Escalation

Pop up message

"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."

Location #2

Warp in

About a dozen Rogue Drones, after a minute more spawn for a total of 20

Spawn

5 x Decimator Alvi (Frigate)

3 x Barracuda Alvi (Frigate)

3 x Hunter Alvi (Frigate)

3 x Shatter Alvior (Destroyer)

3 x Shredder Alvior (Destroyer)

2 x Render Alvi (Frigate)

1 x Sentient Ripper Alvior (Commander Destroyer)

Escalation

Pop up message

"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."

Location #3

Message in Local Chat Channel

"Drone Signal: Location ðrzs found, location þeðy alerted."

Initial Spawn

3 x Dismantler Alvior

2 x Hunter Alvi (Frigate) (Trigger)

2 x Raider Alvi (Frigate)

1 x Strain Splinter Alvi (Frigate)

1 x Sentient Ripper Alvior (Commander Destroyer)

Spawn

4 x Hunter Alvi (Frigate)

4 x Shredder Alvior (Destroyer)

Escalation

Pop up message

"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..."

Location #4 (Low Security)

Warning: Your ship can be freely attacked by others - NO CONCORD INTERVENTION - in Low Security Systems (0.1 to 0.4) and Null Security Systems (0.0)

WARNING! This site contains 2 warp scramming/webbing drones (strain alvi).

Initial Spawn

5 x Hunter Alvi (Frigate)

5 x Drone Hold Containers (May contain loot) (Proximity Trigger)

2nd Spawn within 5000m of Drone Hold cans

4 x Hunter Alvi (Frigate)

3 x Marauder Alvior (Destroyer) (Trigger)

3rd Spawn

2 x Silverfish Alvi (Frigate)

2 x Marauder Alvior (Destroyer)

1 x Sentient Ripper Alvior (Commander Destroyer)

Hint: Always check Star Map statistics (Active ships, Ship kills, Pod kills, etc) of Low Security and Null Security systems first before entering. Fitting a Cloaking Device module on your ship and making more than one Safe spot will provide more safety.

Escalation - End

Pop up message

"As expected, the drones were busy turning this old station into a hive, which if they had succeeded would no doubt be spewing out innumerable copies of their kind to haunt this part of the constellation for years to come. You wonder if sentient machines can dream...If so, then this one is at least permanently broken."

Drone Cans may contain Rogue Drone Components used in Manufacturing and Production along with Tech 2 salvage, Minerals, Ores, Alloys and Compounds. Sentient Commander wrecks will usually give Rogue Drone Components and Tech 2 salvage. All wrecks will contain Alloys and Compounds.