Exploited Sensitivities, Level 4
Faction: Caldari
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace without gates
Damage dealt: Kin/therm
Extras: ECM (Tendai, Daimyo, Shugo)
Web/scramble: web+scram by Merlins
Recommended damage dealing: kin/therm
Recommended ships: Ishtar, Dominix
Difficulty: Easy
Faction Note: Unless you need lots of Caldari Navy Tags pass up this mission.
NO Bounties and it gives you a heavy Caldari Faction Hit and is not much loot .
(see comments for more info)
Single Pocket, Single Group (delayed autoaggro)
All ships are named as "Unidentified Mercenary Frigate / Cruiser".Exact ship types in spawns vary but numbers and hull size does not.
Initial spawn:
5x Cruisers:-2x Taibu State Bajo (last triggers Spawn 3)
-2x Taibu State Oni
-1x Taibu State Kanpaku
5x Frigates:
-2x Taibu State Wakizashi
-1x Taibu State Suriage
-1x Taibu State Shirasaya (triggers Spawn 1)
-1x Taibu State Katana
Spawn 1
(1st frigate reinforcement)4x Taibu State Wakizashi (last triggers Spawn 2)
Spawn 2
(final frigate reinforcement)2x Taibu State Shirasaya
1x Taibu State Suriage
Spawn 3
(1st cruiser reinforcement)3x Taibu State Tendai (last triggers Spawn 4)
Spawn 4
(final cruiser reinforcement)3x Taibu State Bajo
1x Taibu State Samurai (triggers Spawn 5)
Spawn 5
2x Taibu State Shugo1x Taibu State Daimyo
The mission is complete when you destroy all hostile ships, including all re-spawns.
or
Every Frigate and the first cruiser reinforcement spawn.
structures drop no loot
Blitz: Kill all ships in "initial spawn" and "Spawn 3"
CategoryLevel4
7 x Caldari Navy Captain Insignia III
38 x Caldari Navy Commodore Insignia II
3 x 0.018 standing loss against caldari makes it worse. Better than other
faction missions compared with insignia drop. If you are faster, you lose less standing.
The lack of bounties and poor loot/salvage makes this mission a total loss, not to mention the extreme possability of the loss of your ship.
R3aliti
~Stryx
The cruisers in the second and forth wave employ nearly endless sensor dampening. If you don't have drones set to aggressive or FoF missiles, get them.
The cruisers in the second and fourth wave employ nearly endless sensor dampening. If you don't have drones set to aggressive or FoF missiles, get them.
Easy LP and a nice haul of tags too, so I'd recommend this to anyone who does not worry about losing Caldari standings ;-)
As a side note, I've never gone more than two jumps to do this mission.
Unless you need the Tags - pass up this mission