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Unsecured Core Backup Array

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 Unsecured Core Backup Array in EVE Online?

The Unsecured Core Backup Array spawns in wormhole space (C6 systems). How you find it: data Signature.

What spawns in the Unsecured Core Backup Array?

The Unsecured Core Backup Array has 4 waves and about 75 NPCs: 31 battleships, 18 cruisers, 6 tactical destroyers and 20 frigates. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the trigger is Sleepless Warden.

What should I tank and shoot in the Unsecured Core Backup Array?

The heaviest wave in the Unsecured Core Backup Array deals about 5,058 DPS and the site holds about 5,587,791 EHP to grind through. Up to 16 NPCs scram at once, so you cannot simply warp out. Peak capacitor neutralising is about 216 GJ/s.

What ship do I need for the Unsecured Core Backup Array?

As a rule of thumb, tanking the heaviest wave of the Unsecured Core Backup Array in full (about 5,058 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 Unsecured Core Backup Array worth?

The Unsecured Core Backup Array is worth about 688.3M ISK in blue loot at current prices.

Access A ESI-derived / official

Ship restrictions
Not recorded

Threat profile derived from the roster below

5,058tank required (peak-wave DPS)
5.6Mtotal EHP to grind
216peak neut GJ/s
16s / 24wmax scram / web ships
Yesremote reps
4waves (peak: Wave 4)

Incoming damage (peak wave)

EM 23% Thermal 23% Kinetic 27% Explosive 27%

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

4902 DPS · 1.3M EHP · neut 108 GJ/s

QtyNPCHullEWARDPS eaAlpha eaEHP eaOrbit
3 Wakeful Sentry Tower T 73109215,1670 m
3 Restless Sentry Tower T 94140423,8330 m
10 Emergent Sentinel F scram · web 292076,6006,500 m
1 Sleepless Guardian B scram · web · neut 6938352259,07935,000 m
3 Sleepless Keeper B neut 565380288,62965,000 m
2 Sleepless Sentinel B scram · web · neut 4655746147,71419,000 m
2 Sleepless Warden TRIGGER B rrep 3966379134,93355,000 m
Wave 2 4 ships

4476 DPS · 1.1M EHP · neut 90 GJ/s

QtyNPCHullEWARDPS eaAlpha eaEHP eaOrbit
6 Awakened Warden C rrep 9969526,40045,000 m
3 Sleepless Keeper B neut 565380288,62965,000 m
3 Sleepless Sentinel B scram · web · neut 4655746147,71419,000 m
2 Sleepless Warden TRIGGER B rrep 3966379134,93355,000 m
Wave 3 4 ships

4673 DPS · 1.2M EHP · neut 90 GJ/s

QtyNPCHullEWARDPS eaAlpha eaEHP eaOrbit
4 Awakened Warden C rrep 9969526,40045,000 m
3 Sleepless Keeper B neut 565380288,62965,000 m
3 Sleepless Sentinel B scram · web · neut 4655746147,71419,000 m
3 Sleepless Warden TRIGGER B rrep 3966379134,93355,000 m
Wave 4 3 ships

5058 DPS · 2M EHP · neut 216 GJ/s

QtyNPCHullEWARDPS eaAlpha eaEHP eaOrbit
10 Emergent Sentinel F scram · web 292076,6006,500 m
8 Awakened Sentinel C web 7677842,16715,000 m
6 Sleepless Guardian B scram · web · neut 6938352259,07935,000 m

Payout A ESI-derived / official

Blue loot
688,300,000 ISK (688.3M)

Blue loot sells to NPC buy orders at fixed prices — the value is not market-dependent.

Go deeper

Core Bastion (C6) Core Citadel (C6) Forgotten Core Assembly Hall (C6)

Escalations

No escalations currently mapped. That is a statement about the Atlas, not the site. Mapping escalation chains is ongoing original research.

Sources

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