Angel Fortress
In my exploration adventures I stumbled (yeah right, sat and pinned it for a while like every night) the Angel Fortress complex. It’s the one good thing about living in the ass end of space (Great Wildlands). There aren’t that many explorers around, and I can usually find a good site or two during an evening. I like exploration sites because I feel they give far more of a challenge than most of the lvl 4 missions I have run (except maybe AE4 Bonus Room), and the rewards are on par and sometimes better. Yes, in good space (proper -0.5 and lower sec systems) you can make more isk ratting, but I like the challenge of exploration. I would love to do a few lvl5′s again, but the risk vs the reward is just waaay too high
Angel Fortress itself is a fairly simple complex, and if managed right can be done with a range of ships, probably Golem, Ishtar or Tengu and Drake in my case. I have multiple accounts, so why not use them. It has two rooms, each with the usual scattering of NPC’s, BS’s, BC’s, cruisers and frigates. The first room has around 9 BS’s and frigates etc. I made the Drake take the aggro, then zoomed around in the Tengu first shooting the cruisers and bc’s while the Drake’s drones killed off the frigates (some do warp scramble). Once it was all wrapped up, it was off to the second room.
Less BS’s initially (I think around 6) here so the Drake took aggro first again, and then while it was shooting the BS’s I zoomed around in the Tengu killing off the smaller stuff and then worked on the BS’s as well. Once all the NPC’s were popped I started working on the Angel Battlestation. Some more NPC’s (3 BS’s and some support) spawned, and they were fairly quickly dispatched. Once you started hitting the station further a Domination Warlord with a 7.5m bounty spawns, and I know of a alliance mate that has had a Machariel BPC drop from it. With my luck, I got a tag and
ammo. *shakes fist*
As mentioned in my previous post, I just love how CCP have redone some of the graphics of the structures, and the Angel Station is no different. I spent some time taking a screenshot or three from different angles and the level of detail is actually pretty amazing. You can see what looks like a command center, possibly a factory or industrial area, a undocking port for ships. I eventually killed off the Battlestation and it dropped some standard ammo and crap, and I didn’t get the escalation, much to my annoyance, but thats life and exploration for you. I would like to one day when I have a few hours spare, sit and write a fictional story about what life must like on one of these outposts, but thats something for another time.
