Down the Chain

Calm Abyssal Deadspace (T1)

Tier 1 · CalmAbyssal DeadspaceRandom abyssal spawns

Dark Electrical Exotic Firestorm Gamma

The first earning tier: Triglavian Extraction Nodes and SubNodes appear alongside the Bioadaptive Cache (limited pool — Survey Databases, Zero-Point Condensate, Crystalline Isogen-10 — and sometimes empty; loot them only with clock to spare). Weather penalty still rolls −30/50%. The Sleeper battleship (Lucid Deepwatcher) spawns SOLO here and at T2 — strongest tank in the tier but near-harmless under a tight orbit. A cheap T1 cruiser or frigate pair runs T1 comfortably. Community entry meta: the passive-shield Worm is the attested alpha-friendly earner from T0 into T2 (support=5 across 2020-2025), with Caldari assault frigates preferred for Darks.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Found via
Calm filament (any weather) — needs 0.8 sec or below; no suspect flag anywhere it opens
Ship restrictions
1× cruiser (no T3C) · 2× destroyers (T3D allowed) · 3× frigates

Filament prices — Jita sell, 2026-08-26 (refreshed with the data pipeline)

  • Dark: 10.4k ISK
  • Electrical: 24.4k ISK
  • Exotic: 82.9k ISK
  • Firestorm: 2.2k ISK
  • Gamma: 7.2k ISK
  • Cheapest entry this tier: Firestorm at 2.2k ISK — filament cost is part of the run's P&L.

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Bioadaptive Cache + Extraction Nodes/SubNodes. Income class: low tens of millions per run at current prices.

Hulls the community flies here corpus-attested, renders © Fenris Creations

Worm
Worm
Hawk
Hawk

Sources

  • EVE University wiki: Abyssal Deadspace C Single-source / unverified retrieved 2026-08-19
  • DTC abyssal research + live T4 trio operation (Aug 2026); tier medians via Abyss Tracker (abysstracker.com, 119,529 T4 runs) B Community-corroborated retrieved 2026-08-15
  • r/Eve + r/evenewbies full-history archive (10.6M comments; sleeper-cache/escalation/drifter topics mined 26 Aug 2026) C Single-source / unverified retrieved 2026-08-26

Last reviewed 2026-08-19 · game version: Cradle of War (Jun 2026). Spot an error? Corrections land fastest via the channel.