Balancing the Books (4 of 10)
Objectives:
- Acquire these goods:
1 x Encoded Data Chip (0.1 m3) - Drop-off Location
Mission Giver Agent’s location.
(the station you picked the mission up from)
“The Guristas Pirates have set up a listening post nearby, where they intercept shipping information and use it to attack our vessels. I want you to go there to destroy the post and any Guristas Pirates ships you see. I also want you to use your codebreaker and hack open the Data Storage Device for me to retrieve the Encoded Data Chip.”
Overview:
The fourth mission in the Balancing the Books chain serves as a semi-introduction to the Hacking mini profession, which typically involves scanning down Radar exploration sites with the use of probes and your ship’s scanner. This particular intro to Hacking does not go as in depth as the exploration career arc mission, Radar Site Scanning, which actually has you scanning down a “starter” exploration site for its mission. In this case, you will simply be hacking a few containers present at the deadspace location where your mission takes place.
Normally, you would need the Hacking skill trained and a Codebreaker module; however, the Civilian Codebreaker you are granted upon accepting this mission does not require any skills to use but will also only work on special mission containers in the beginner missions like this one. Make sure to fit the module to one of your mid power slots on your ship before leaving your agent’s station, along with at least one weapon and ammo equipped, as there will be a single enemy target at the mission location to destroy.
Warp to the bookmark for your mission and activate the acceleration gate to enter the one and only room here. Within, you will find the one enemy ship protecting the single Data Storage Device, which floats in space. You will need to hack open the device.
Quickly take out the enemy pushover. In the Caldari arc’s case, it will be a Guristas Rookie; it’s an equally weak rat for other races. Once he’s gone, you can lock the Data Storage Device, which will be marked with a container icon on the screen and overview, and fly towards it within at least 5000m. Once in range, you can activate your Civilian Codebreaker module on the container and let it cycle, staying in range until you get a notification that you have successfully hacked open the container.
This may take a few tries as there is always a success chance % during Hacking, which depends a lot on the equipment used, your skill training, your ship, and finally the difficulty of the site itself. If the cycle fails to unlock the container, just wait until it does; you will never be locked out from accessing a container for failing to hack it. Once it’s opened, retrieve the Encoded Data Chip along with anything else inside and return to your agent to claim your rewards.
Rewards:
- Civilian Codebreaker x 1 (granted upfront)
- Hacking skill book x 1
- 63,000 Isk bonus (1 hours, 18 minutes)
- +0.1459 % corporation standing
Balancing the Books (4 of 10)
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Last Updated on October 4, 2020 by Standard of Entertainment