Core Bastion
Found in: C6 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 Core Bastion in EVE Online?
The Core Bastion spawns in wormhole space (C6 systems). How you find it: anomaly.
What spawns in the Core Bastion?
The Core Bastion has 4 waves and about 53 NPCs: 16 battleships, 22 cruisers, 3 tactical destroyers and 12 frigates. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Emergent Keeper, Awakened Warden and Sleepless Guardian.
What should I tank and shoot in the Core Bastion?
The heaviest wave in the Core Bastion deals about 3,510 DPS and the site holds about 3,586,651 EHP to grind through. Up to 10 NPCs scram at once, so you cannot simply warp out. Peak capacitor neutralising is about 162 GJ/s.
What ship do I need for the Core Bastion?
As a rule of thumb, tanking the heaviest wave of the Core Bastion in full (about 3,510 DPS) takes a group, or a marauder or capital fleet. 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 Core Bastion worth?
The Core Bastion is worth about 445.6M 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 7 ships
2058 DPS · 663.4k EHP · neut 63 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 |  Restless Sentry Tower |
T | 94 | 1404 | 23,833 | 0 m | |
| 3 |  Emergent Keeper TRIGGER |
F | neut · rrep | 22 | 171 | 4,400 | 5,000 m |
| 3 |  Emergent Sentinel |
F | scram · web | 29 | 207 | 6,600 | 6,500 m |
| 3 |  Awakened Keeper |
C | scram · web · neut | 56 | 479 | 19,250 | 30,000 m |
| 3 |  Awakened Sentinel |
C | web | 76 | 778 | 42,167 | 15,000 m |
| 3 |  Awakened Warden |
C | rrep | 99 | 695 | 26,400 | 45,000 m |
| 2 |  Sleepless Sentinel |
B | scram · web · neut | 465 | 5746 | 147,714 | 19,000 m |
Wave 2 3 ships
2959 DPS · 628.8k EHP · neut 48 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Awakened Sentinel |
C | web | 76 | 778 | 42,167 | 15,000 m |
| 4 | Awakened Warden TRIGGER |
C | rrep | 99 | 695 | 26,400 | 45,000 m |
| 4 |  Sleepless Keeper |
B | neut | 565 | 3802 | 88,629 | 65,000 m |
Wave 3 3 ships
3510 DPS · 1.2M EHP · neut 162 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 |  Emergent Warden |
F | scram · web · neut | 41 | 293 | 2,860 | 5,000 m |
| 5 | Awakened Warden |
C | rrep | 99 | 695 | 26,400 | 45,000 m |
| 4 |  Sleepless Guardian TRIGGER |
B | scram · web · neut | 693 | 8352 | 259,079 | 35,000 m |
Wave 4 2 ships
3245 DPS · 1.1M EHP · neut 144 GJ/s
| Qty | NPC | Hull | EWAR | DPS ea | Alpha ea | EHP ea | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Sleepless Guardian |
B | scram · web · neut | 693 | 8352 | 259,079 | 35,000 m |
| 4 | Sleepless Sentinel |
B | scram · web · neut | 465 | 5746 | 147,714 | 19,000 m |
Payout A ESI-derived / official
- Blue loot
- 445,600,000 ISK (445.6M)
Blue loot sells to NPC buy orders at fixed prices — the value is not market-dependent.
Go deeper
Core Citadel (C6) Forgotten Core Assembly Hall (C6) Forgotten Core Circuitry Disassembler (C6)
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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