In the Midst Of Deadspace Part 5, Level 4
Faction: Khanid/Caldari
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace
Damage dealt: EM/Therm from the Khanid Mashtori, Kin/Therm from Caldari
Extras: ECM (Taibu State Tendai)
Web/scramble: Spider drones, some caldari frigs may scram
Recommended damage dealing: therm for khanid, kin for caldari
Recommended ships: Battleship
"Imperial Navy Gate Permit" is required or you can't activate the gate. You obtain it as soon as complete Part 3 of this chain.
Pocket 1
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EmptyThe two Amarr Cathedral structures don't drop any items. Cool explosion though.
Pocket 3
2x Spider Drone I1x Battleship (Khanid Mashtori) Use thermal ammo. He orbits at 12.5km.
The Khanid Mashtori does Massive EM damage with Paradise Cruise doing 1575hp EM damage every 10 seconds.
Pocket 4
Left Group (Kill this 1st)
3x Battleships (State Oshiro/Zen (Scorpion/Juggernauts))2x Cruisers (Taibu State Sohei/Tendai (Blackbird/Flameburst missiles/A lot of ECM))
3x Frigates (Taibu State Daito/Yari (Kestrel/Thorn Rockets/Webs))
Right Group (Kill this 2nd)
3x Cruisers (Taibu State Samurai (Moa/Scourge missiles))3x Battlecruisers (State Oni/Kanpaku (Ferox/Scourge missiles))
Middle Group (Kill this 3rd)
3x Frigates (Taibu State Nagasa/Shinai (Crow (?)/Thorn Rocket/Web/Scramble))4x Cruisers (State Shukuro Chugen/State Shikuro Ashigaru (Blackbird/Scourge))
3x Battleships (Caldari Navy Temuras (Raven/Juggernauts)) - Orbit at 50km
4x Caldari Cruise Missile Battery
Destroy the manufacturing plant! (Mission Completion when destroyed)
Hints
Attacking the missile batteries will aggro the whole pocket.Don't forget to destroy the manufacturing plant!
It's doable with low (40%) EM resist as long as you have a good buffer, the first battleship dies relatively fast.
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Once they're gone, you'll have a far easier time taking out the rest...
Using Wasps I, it is a piece of cake, only the jamming of the left group is a bit disturbing.
Key to this mission is the Wasps as stated, just load up for kinetic there's only the one Khanid BS anyway and it's the only BS in that pocket.
I fit my Phoon with 2xLAR, 2xKin Hard, 1xTherm Hard, 1xEANM and tanking was not a problem.
Perfect mission for sentry drones.
10:21:27 Combat Khanid Mashtori aims well at you, inflicting 159.4 damage.
10:21:41 Combat Paradise Cruise Missile belonging to Caldari State hits you, doing 531.6 damage.
The turrent dmg happens about every 2.6 seconds while the paradise missile dmg happens every 15+ seconds. The 531.6 missile dmg is with 66.25% EM resist.
Loot is lame, but good tags. Salvage is decent.
used Warden 1's for the station and the temuras, easy no prob
completed using a shield tanked myrm (can't fly a domi yet), no problems taking down the three temuras (~5mins each)
6x 425mm autocannons with titanium sabot m (skill of med proj turret: 1)
all kinetic drones (myrm only fits 3 heavy, but that works fine)
I killed the Temuras with a Hyperion, Caldari Navy Antimatter and four Wasp 1 Heavy drones.
The tank on the Temuras is impressive, but it's all shield. it took 25 rounds to break through their shields, and then one, two, three, FOUR shots to drop their armor.
For the Manufacturing Plant, I recommend leaving it for the very last and then returning to the station to switch out your armor tank from damage increasing modules.