Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot
Found in: C3 B Community-corroborated Class confirmed by two independent sources: the maintained Rykki guide's per-class tabs and the EVE University site list.
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Quick answers
Where is the Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot in EVE Online?
The Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot spawns in wormhole space (C3 systems). How you find it: relic Signature.
What spawns in the Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot?
The Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot has 4 waves and about 25 NPCs: 5 battleships, 12 cruisers and 8 frigates. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Awakened Defender and Sleepless Upholder.
What should I tank and shoot in the Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot?
The heaviest wave in the Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot deals about 1,424 DPS and the site holds about 521,237 EHP to grind through. Up to 4 NPCs scram at once, so you cannot simply warp out. Peak capacitor neutralising is about 42 GJ/s.
What ship do I need for the Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot?
As a rule of thumb, tanking the heaviest wave of the Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot in full (about 1,424 DPS) takes a battleship or marauder. Its NPCs scram, so if your tank breaks you cannot simply warp out. Pulling waves carefully lowers what you need to tank.
How much is the Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot worth?
The Forgotten Frontier Recursive Depot is worth about 92.5M ISK in blue loot at current prices.
Access A ESI-derived / official
- Ship restrictions
- Not recorded
Threat profile derived from the roster below
Incoming damage (peak wave)
Best damage to deal derived from per-NPC resist profiles, weighted by EHP
This roster is effectively omni-resist. No damage type has a meaningful edge, so pick on application and range instead.
NPC roster A ESI-derived / official
Per-NPC stats regenerate from live ESI; wave structure and triggers are actively maintained by the guide's maintainer.
Wave 1 2 ships
244 DPS · 60.9k EHP · neut 12 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 |  Emergent Preserver |
F | scram · web · neut | 32 | 228 | 1,820 | 5,000 m |
| 2 |  Awakened Defender TRIGGER |
C | 59 | 605 | 26,833 | 15,000 m |
Wave 2 2 ships
351 DPS · 129.5k EHP · neut 24 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Awakened Defender TRIGGER |
C | 59 | 605 | 26,833 | 15,000 m | |
| 4 |  Awakened Upholder |
C | web · neut | 43 | 372 | 12,250 | 30,000 m |
Wave 3 3 ships
1011 DPS · 145.7k EHP · neut 32 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |  Emergent Defender |
F | web | 23 | 161 | 4,200 | 6,500 m |
| 2 | Awakened Upholder |
C | web · neut | 43 | 372 | 12,250 | 30,000 m |
| 2 |  Sleepless Upholder TRIGGER |
B | neut | 439 | 2957 | 56,400 | 65,000 m |
Wave 4 3 ships
1424 DPS · 185.1k EHP · neut 42 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Emergent Preserver |
F | scram · web · neut | 32 | 228 | 1,820 | 5,000 m |
| 1 | Awakened Upholder |
C | web · neut | 43 | 372 | 12,250 | 30,000 m |
| 3 | Sleepless Upholder |
B | neut | 439 | 2957 | 56,400 | 65,000 m |
Payout A ESI-derived / official
- Blue loot
- 92,500,000 ISK (92.5M)
Blue loot sells to NPC buy orders at fixed prices — the value is not market-dependent.
Our fits for this site
Go deeper
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Escalations
No escalations currently mapped. That is a statement about the Atlas, not the site. Mapping escalation chains is ongoing original research.
Sources
- Rykki's Guide 1.5 (Grubu-maintained, regenerates from live ESI) A ESI-derived / official retrieved 2026-08-10
- EVE University Wiki - Wormhole sites (rev 231740) C Single-source / unverified retrieved 2026-06-18
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