Pytria Le'Danness
Placid Reborn
Coalition Of Empires
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Posted - 2008.03.10 10:31:00 -
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Path to Enlightenment
There is an agent at plant VI Moon 1 offering a three parter mission involving the Yan Jung civilisation. The first mission requires you to fetch a Threaded Waypoint Map from the Skeleton Comet. Since the site also spawns the decryptors needed for invention farmers often find that map and sell it for a few millions.
Once you bring the agent the map he sends you through the gate next to him, where a Force Repellant relic guards a few containers. You are to return a "Yan Jung Microprocessor." The repeller pops easily, but you need Analyzers and Archeology to access the containers. The repeller spawns a can containing the mission objective and some ore. If you bring a ship with some cargo space you can get a bit ore (worth one or two refine steps) for free.
The last mission requires you to hunt down some Serp Marauders in the Deltole belts to find a Binary Translation thingus in exchange for a Yan Jung passkey needed to access the Hidden Path. I found some "Marauder Guard" in belt X-3, but they did not drop the component I needed - that might be totally random. I recommend mounting a tractor beam or two, this will save a lot of travelling.
I bought the Binary thingy from a ratter in system. It seems to drop from random rats - I was aparently just unlucky, but I had been ratting for two hours and found nothing.
The Hidden Path
is next to the Colelie gate and does not kill the key you got from the agent.
The first stage has four Serp Cruisers and three web/scrambling frigates.
The next has a bunch of turrets (a dozen or so) and a "Lost Serpentis Explorer" (Thorax) surrounding the "Gargoyle", a defence system containing the key to the destination - according to the popup. Everything is 60km or more away, so bring ranged weapons. The turrets respawn after a bit, so just kill some of them fast, pop the Gargoyle and loot the key. They do a lot of damage, but only a few can reach you at a time.
The last room has a huge number of Serpentis. Mainly cruisers, but also two BS and a lot of the frigates that scrambled. I did warp out quickly to avoid the scramblers, the total force equals that of the complex spawns or so. Two decent ships could probably tank this though.
The site had a lot of Yan Jung cans that might be useful to analyze, but I am not sure if the rewards are worth the risk.
I later returned again and found the spawns equal the Contested Comet spawns rather exactly, except that you have to tank them all alone. It is doable in an T2 fitted Eos (pre-Trinity, so it should work even better now). Both hacking the cans and keeping the NPCs in check a the same time is a bit tedious and you cannot ignore the NPCs as some web you which makes reaching the cans take an eternity. Besides, it's nice ISK ;).
With a group you can probably harvest Yan Jung components nicely, but I found nothing that really stood out.
Since the NPCs respawn pretty fast everyone needs at least a token tank since they tend to lock whoever is around.
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