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Penumbra, Level 4 Epic Arc

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Epic Arc Overview


Starter agent: Aursa Kunivuri
Agent corporation: Expert Distribution
Agent location: Josameto (Nugoeihuvi Information Centre Beacon)
Faction/corp standings required: 6.8 (either Caldari OR Expert Distribution)
Additional skills required: ???

Important notes :

Rewards:


Chapter 1 : Proof of Intent


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Mission 1 - The Intermediary


Report to Katsen Isha in Poinen (Poinen IV - Moon 13 - Nugoeihuvi Corporation Development Studio).
You are given a Dossier - Author Unknown.

Mission 2 - Trust and Discretion


Deliver one unit of Questionable Cargo (3.0 m3)

Mission 3 - Their loss, our profit


Faction: Serpentis
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: Therm/Kin
Web/Scramble: Elite frigates
Extras: Sensor dampening (Elite frigates, Elite cruisers & Battleships)
Recommended damage dealing: Kin (best), Therm (secondary)

Single Pocket


Hyasyoda Research Facility sits 72km away.
Hyasyoda Security Compound sits 125km away.

Wave 1 is triggered by killing the last battleship (from the closer formation) in the Initial Group.
Wave 2 is triggered by killing the last battleship Wave 1.
Research Facility Guards is triggered when the Hyasyoda Research Facility suffers 50% shield damage.

Initial Group: (73-102km)

2x Elite cruisers (Corelum Guardian Chief Infantry/Sentinel) Sensor dampener
3x Battleships (Core High/Vice Admiral) Sensor dampener Trigger (Wave 1)
3x Battleships (Core Admiral/Rear/Vice Admiral) Sensor dampener

Wave 1: (48-54km)

4x Elite frigates (Coreli Guardian Defender/Patroller) Sensor dampener
5x Battleships (Core Admiral/Grand/High Admiral) Trigger (Wave 2)

Wave 2: (23-49km)

5x Elite frigates (Coreli Guardian Protector/Initiate/Defender) Scramble
5x Elite cruisers (Corelum Guardian Chief Infantry/Sentinel) Sensor dampener
4x Battleships (Core Flotilla/Rear/Vice Admiral)

Research Facility Guards: (86-102km)

8x Elite frigates (Coreli Guardian Guard/Safeguard)

Tips

Mission 4 (Story Arc Branch) - The Paths that are Hidden


The story arc branches according to your choice :

Two Steps Into Hell
Playing it Safer
An Honorable Betrayal

Mission 5 - Two Steps Into Hell


Deliver S.I. Formula Sheet to the Nugoeihuvi Cargo Facility in KFR-ZE (Syndicate).

Mission 5 - Playing it Safer


Deliver S.I. Formula Sheet to the Nugoeihuvi Cargo Facility in Faurulle (Solitude).

Mission 5 - An Honorable Betrayal


Report to Arikio Kuretsu in Wuos (Wuos V - Moon 1 - Hyasyoda Corporation Mining Outpost).

Mission 6 (Story Arc Branch) - Too Close for Comfort


The story arc branches according to your choice :

The Crimson Decoy
Pre-Emptive Opportunities

Mission 7 - The Crimson Decoy


Faction: Blood Raiders Covenant
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: EM/Therm
Web/Scramble: ?
Extras: ?
Recommended damage dealing: EM (best), Therm (secondary)

Single Pocket


TBA

Mission 7 - Pre-Emptive Opportunities


Faction: Mercenaries
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: Therm/Kin
Web/Scramble: Frigates/Elite Frigates/Spider Drones
Extras: NA
Recommended damage dealing: Therm (best), Kin (secondary)

Single Pocket


TBA
Comments
Comment by AceMaverick
2009-09-01 10:46:17
It seems that your choice for mission 5 also determines which of the alternate Mission 7's will be chosen. I chose 'Playing it Safer' and got 'Pre-Emtive Opportunities' as mission 7. I suspect 'An Honorable Betrayal' leads to 'The Crimson Decoy' and the other two to 'Pre-Emptive Opportunities.
Completed M7 in a CNR with Navy fittings with a general tank. First two waves do not target drones, but third (or forth) did, so be prepared to retract them. No scrammers as far as I could see. Lots of loot, but poor salvage.
Comment by SyphurouS
2009-10-14 17:19:31
Just want to make a note here, as I may come back and fill in a report, "A Generals Best Friend", the Gallente Navy Arazu fire Thunderbolts and push a huge amount of EM damage, the RoF is very slow though so a high kin/therm tank and EM if you have room. I managed to rep the damage away before the next volley.
Comment by SandorKreja
2009-10-20 12:56:30
The reward for doing the path (Two Steps to Hell - Pre-Emptive Oppurtunies - Learning by Doing) is 20 x Nugoehuvi Synth Blue Pill Booster (5% shield Boost bonus that last 30 min)
Comment by BalaNah
2009-12-30 14:48:26
A General's Best Friend note:

During my trip to the gate, I blew up the 6 Dark Shipyards. I didn't encounter any resistance at all, no hostiles decloaked. Maybe next time I'll bring a faster ship.
Comment by TrabberShir
2010-07-05 15:51:01
you can blitz "A General's Best Friend" by burning to the gate in an interceptor, it is not locked and killing the Gallente is not a requirement.
Comment by DeMichaelCrimson
2012-01-14 03:52:34
Completed missions in T2 rigged Faction / Deadspace fit Command Ship (Sleipnir), active shield tank, AC's, HML's, Drones.

Seems a few missions are not listed for the path I did so I'll list my log notes for Chapter 1 - Proof Of Intent

Mission 1 - The Intermediary
Report to agent in high sec system

Mission 2 - Trust And Discretion
Small Courier mission

Mission 3 - Their Loss, Our Profit
Blitz - Destroy all NPC's in initial group except 1 of the Core High Admiral Battleships. That will bypass wave 1 and wave 2 spawns. Attack Research Center, destroy spawn and structure, collect mission objective and complete mission. No need to destroy the Hyasyoda Security Compound - just approach can and collect the Hyasyoda Captain corpse.

Mission 4 - The Paths That Are Hidden
This has 3 different branch options. 'Two Steps Into Hell' leads to 0.0 system, 'Playing It Safer' leads to low sec system and 'An Honorable Betrayal' leads to high sec system.

Mission 5 - An Honorable Betrayal
Report to agent in high sec system.

Mission 6 - Proof Of Intent
Small Courier mission

Mission 7 - Return To Isha
Report to agent in high sec system.

Mission 8 - Re-examining Options
This has 2 different branch options. 'Two Steps Into Hell' leads to 0.0 system and 'Playing It Safer' leads to low sec system.

Mission 9 - Playing It Safer (low sec)
Small Courier mission - 31 jumps total, 9 jumps are low sec systems

Mission 10 - Almost Unmasked
Report to agent in high sec system

Mission 11 - Some Light Theatrics
Hack can, collect mission objective

Mission 12 - Untouchable
Report to agent in high sec system

Mission 13 - A General's Best Friend
Blitz - Quickly approach Newly Constructed Acceleration Gate and activate asap. Approach Caldari Navy Outpost triggers mission completion. No need to engage Gallente NPC's in 1st pocket.
Comment by AnaGram
2012-10-17 03:38:25
Mission 7

Warped to mission , approached the can , used the codebreaker, looted the 5x CPF personnel, warped out and returned to Agent. Mission objective not complete. Tried placing 5x personnel in hanger , still incomplete. Had to return to mission , approach the main structure within 2500 m (no habitation module), return to agent, mission complete
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Comment by Dark_Missioner
2023-05-07 10:08:47
Same happened to us recently.
Your solution worked.

You need to loot first and approach the logistigc center second, the other way around (approaching, then looting and warping off directly) doesn't trigger mission complete.
Comment by WollE
2013-12-24 03:15:43
"The Crimson Decoy": Be aware you will get heavily neuted from the Battleships. Your Cap will by dry within a minute. Fly a passive tanked ship or you will loose you BS like I did (Golem).
Comment by DeMichaelCrimson
2014-04-09 18:29:17
This time I did different path choices which made this chapter much shorter compared to my previous comment.

Mission 1 - The Intermediary

Mission 2 - Trust And Discretion

Mission 3 - Their Loss, Our Profit

Mission 4 - The Paths That Are Hidden (Branch Point)

Mission 5 - Two Steps Into Hell

Mission 6 - Too Close For Comfort (Branch Point)

Mission 7 - The Crimson Decoy

Mission 8 - A General's Best Friend
Comment by ShintuFelper
2014-04-12 23:51:07
My path(is the longest route from what I understand):

Mission 1 - The Intermediary

Mission 2 - Trust And Discretion

Mission 3 - Their Loss, Our Profit

Mission 4 - The Paths That Are Hidden

Mission 5 - An Honorable Betrayal

Mission 6 - Proof Of Intent

Mission 7 - Return To Isha

Mission 8 - Re-examining Options

Mission 9 - Two Steps into Hell (null sec)

Mission 10 - Almost Unmasked

Mission 11 - Some Light Theatrics

Mission 12 - Untouchable

Mission 13 - A General's Best Friend
Comment by KirtaadTzash
2014-06-22 17:45:38
According to forums, the standing gain is actually the same regardless which path you take through the arc.
Comment by Whisper1
2014-06-26 09:44:42
I collected all Information on Rewards, loot and completion times.
For calculation of loot values, I took the in game inventory value (Juni 2014)
The Values are from 3 chars, doing the complete arc, killing everything. So loot and salvage should be quite reliable, since i took the value of the loot/salvage of all 3 and divided it by 3

salvage: 12 mil
loot: 115 mil
final reward (mobile lab): 332 mil
mission rewards + bonus: 140 mil
bountys for killing all npcs: 15 mil

total: 614 mil

I also measured the time, the arc required for completion killing all npcs and traveling without autopliot in a BS. I used a Vargur with faction/T2 fit (850-900 dps) and an alt with T3&Noctis für Hacking/Salvaging.
Some of the missions can be blitzed, saving some time (maybe 30 minutes in total) but reducing loot/salvage by 45 mil.

duration: 4:30 hours

I will add these information for the other arcs as soon as I completed them for comparison.
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Comment by JaTon
2018-04-24 21:01:06
The mission Playing it Safer does not send you a station. Fortunately, its not a beacon site either...its a normal mission site, i.e., its created and randomly located at mission acceptance and then disappears when the mission is completed. It is warped to directly, not a deadspace (no acceleration gate). There should be no lurking gankers there unless they have scanned it down while you were traveling those 30 or so jumps.
Comment by JaTon
2018-04-24 21:08:28
The blitz description for Generals Best Friends says to get to the gate quickly...well...a shuttle is not quick enough, heh. The npcs will not kill your pod and the gate will allow your pod to warp thru, but the completion message will not trigger for a pod. You have to have a ship (I assume one from the Restriction list). For my second attempt, I used a decoy ship (an alt) and kited the npc's away from the gate, and when the npcs were far enough away I flew my main character thru.
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Comment by JaTon
2018-12-13 13:59:21
If you want to do A General's Best Friend without killing gallente ships, then this mission might get abit tricky. You warp in to a beacon and all those ships are almost on top of the gate. I was able to use the covops cloak on my Prorator, but would not have been able to fly to, activate and warp in time before succumbing to the the gallente dps (I did try...I got decloaked from a far enough distance, and they target/fire quickly enough such that the damage was quickly into 50% armor). The gallente are all over and close by so I don't know if a fast cloaked interceptor would have been fast enough before being uncloaked and popped.

After trying a few more methods, I ended up first flying in my Prorator and cloaking immediately before they had to time target. I then flew straight down, then across to underneath the gate and then back up to sorta behind the gate. I then warped in an alt in a Gila (any fast ship with a decent tank should be ok) and flew directly away using an MWD until about 100km away from most of the gallente group, then slowed down to same speed as the gallente (about 200km/hr). I kited them away from the gate until the ships closest to the gate were about 45km or so from that gate, then flew my Prorator towards the gate, and activated my MWD when I got uncloaked. My Prorator was able to gatewarp away quickly, and then I easily flew to the caldari station in the pocket (no ships there) and completed the mission.

Could the trip to the gate been simply tanked by an appropriate ship? I don't know...I'm more of a long range kiter than a toe-to-toe fighter.
Comment by JaTon
2020-07-04 10:08:15
The description for Some Light Theatrics mentions "take the security forces out". Maybe that was true in the past, but is no longer. There is no combat during this mission. Your ship is the only vessel there. Just bring a data analyzer, and a ship that can be 10km away within 30 secs.
Comment by JaTon
2020-07-04 10:39:13
During A General's Best Friend, I tried the technique mentioned by another commenter back in 2009...I warped in my golem and blew up all six Dark Shipyards before advancing to the acceleration gate. It worked...no ships decloaked. Not sure if using a drone boat would have worked too...unsure if drones would have triggered decloaking.
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