Your Undivided Attention (3 of 10)

Overview

In Your Undivided Attention, the third mission in the Advanced Military Career arc of EVE Online, you will be introduced to the basics of warp disrupting with another special task without real combat. If you’re unfamiliar with the many aspects behind the different modules that are involved and how they interact with each other, make sure to take the time to read the mission briefing as it goes pretty in depth about the subject.

Objectives

“Find the fleeing pirate and activate your Civilian Warp Disruptor on him, preventing an escape. You are authorized to kill any escort vessels that you see, but not the primary target.”

Enemies (Caldari)

• Room 1:
  • Group 1: Fleeing Pirate x 1, Guristas Rookie x2 (6k)
    Do not fire on the Fleeing Pirate. The Rookies must be taken out before disrupting your target, or else they will leave the area.

Total Bounty: 6,000 Isk

About Disrupters and Scramblers

In this particular mission, you will only be utilizing the Warp Disruptor module, which is a targeted device meant to lock down an enemy ship by preventing it from warping away. These tools are commonly used in gang and fleet warfare, especially by pirates who wish to attack other players in low sec. Scramblers, which are a similar device and used in the very same manner, increase the strength of the warp disruption, negating the use of single warp stabilizer modules and Micro Warp Drives (themselves used to negate disruption, but with half the range).

Some of the challenges with using a disruptor or scrambler come in the forms of having to deal with a potentially armed and angry target and having to keep them within the effective distance of the device. Ships can attempt to outrun the device with Afterburners or regular engines if they previously relied on a now-disabled MWD for extra propulsion.

For this reason, people who fit ships to lock down others, or “Tacklers” as they are commonly referred to, not only fit webifiers to slow down their prey, but also make propulsion upgrades of their own to keep their speeds up. They almost always work with other players in gangs to quickly overwhelm single targets.

How to Complete the Mission

This mission itself, however, will barely skim over how complex the use of these devices can get and the abilities of the more advanced forms of warp disruption. Here, you will simply be requested to enable your Warp Disruption module on a specific enemy ship, the Fleeing Pirate. Equip either the civilian disruptor or a regular variant, since any disruptor will do, and warp out to the mission location to find your target.

When you arrive at the mission location, you’ll find the Fleeing Pirate guarded by a pair of rookie pirates. You can kill off the guards, but you must not shoot the Fleeing Pirate himself. Also, if you do want to kill those ships, make sure to do so before disrupting him, or else they will warp away immediately without you being able to claim their very small bounty. You’ll have to be within 20km of the target for the disruptor to work on him, but once you activate the module on him and start disrupting his drive, you’ll get a message of surrender and the objective will complete.

Rewards:

• + 0.2122 % corporation standing
• 1 x Civilian Warp Disruptor (Granted)
• 43,000 Isk
• 58,000 Isk bonus (1 hours, 56 minutes)