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Epilogue – Addendum
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Welcome, capsuleers, to part 3 of my guide to the epic mission arc in EVE Online.
So without further ado, on with the guide…
Epic Mission Arc: The Blood-Stained Stars
Chapter 1: Quality of Mercy
Mission 8: Delivering a Doctor
This mission requires you to deliver a ransom to a group that have kidnapped one Dr. Luija Elban. Remember to grab the ‘Lots of Cash’ item from your hangar before leaving, and warp to the bookmarked encounter.
When you get there there will be a cargo can labelled ‘Dead Drop’ and no rats, upon placing the ransom in the can the first wave of pirates will spawn and decide that they could make more money by killing you instead of handing the doctor over. The pirates youface in this mission are Coreli pirates of the Serpentis faction. These Pirates are weak to KIN and THERM damage and will dish out the same so fit accordingly.
Wave 1:
3 x Coreli Agent (Frigate)
The can containing the doctor drops rom this wave so you can bug out once you pick her up, or you can continue fighting.
Wave 2:
4 x Coreli Spy (Frigate)
Once you’ve dealt with all the pirates, gathered all the loot and salvaged the wrecks, return to Sister Alitura to complete the mission.
Note: With many of the missions it is worth salvaging and looting any wrecks you generate fighting pirates. The money to be made from selling the looted modules/salvage, is often more than the mission rewards themselves. If you can’t sell a module or its price is particularly low, you can reprocess it into minerals which you can then sell.
Mission 9: Engineering a Rescue
This mission follows the same pattern as the previous one, but without the ransom. You have to rescue an engineer from being attacked by rogue drones. We’ve encountered drones before but while I mentioned their irritating habit of being fast, small and coming in quite close I forgot to detail the damage types that should be fitted for when encountering them. Drones can vary quite widely in the types of damage they do but the low level ones you will encounter here deal out EM and THERM damage. Being robotic in nature Drones are extremely weak to EM damage so a combination of that and any of the other damage types should see you through nicely.
As before you don’t actually have to fight the drones to complete the mission. The engineer is in a wrecked Megathron called Heartbreaker and can be picked up without having to destroy the drones.
Wave 1:
3 x Infester Alvi
Wave 2:
3 x Render Alvi
No matter how you decide to deal with the drones, grab the engineer and return to Sister Alitura to complete the mission.
Mission 10: Going Gallente
This is the last mission in Chapter 1. Sister Alitura sends you to talk to another agent in Gallente space, 8 jumps away. If you right-click the link in the mission description and set it as your destination you can safely use your autopilot to travel there, though I would recommend getting into the habit of travelling large distances manually.
Once your destination is set the next gate in your route will be highlighted in yellow. Selecting this gate and warping to 0km will get you to your destination faster and will also help you avoid warping into gate camps in low-sec and 0.0 space. The autopilot is ok to use in high-sec systems (0.5 security and above) but as it warps you to 15km from the gate and then approaches to jumping distance out of warp it takes longer and leaves you vulnerable to attack.
Once you get to your destination talk to Delphine Xarasier to complete the mission and receive the next one.
This ends part 3 of the Epic Mission Guide and Chapter 1 of this arc. In the next post We’ll start on Chapter 2. As ever comments, questions and suggestions can be left either in the comments here on in this thread on the EVE forums.
Onward , to Part 4… (link coming soon)
