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Bhaalgorn
Blood Raiders signature battleship: Bhaalgorn

Frontier in Flames

An expedition — a multi-part escalation chain (typically four sites) obtained by chance (~5%) from an unrated complex, tracked in The Agency. Each completed part has roughly a 50% chance to continue, usually toward lower-security space than where it began.

Quick answersAccessNPC rosterPayoutGo deeperEscalationsSources

Quick answers

Where is the Frontier in Flames in EVE Online?

The Frontier in Flames spawns in high-sec, low-sec and null-sec. How you find it: escalation only — cannot be scanned down.

What spawns in the Frontier in Flames?

The Frontier in Flames has 5 waves and about 27 NPCs: 12 battleships, 7 battlecruisers, 5 cruisers and 2 sentry towers. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Dark Blood Cardinal and Blood Outpost Station.

Does the Frontier in Flames escalate?

The Frontier in Flames is itself an escalation from Blood Military Complex.

What does the Frontier in Flames drop?

Faction/commander drops scale with the chain's depth; the fourth site carries the headline table.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Ship restrictions
Not recorded

NPC roster C Single-source / unverified

Community-maintained wave list from the site's own wiki page — counts and triggers vary between spawns; treat as the shape, not gospel.

Second location — Initial defenders 4 ships
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2 Blood Stasis Tower Sentry
3-4 Elder Corpum Revenant/Sage C
3-4 Blood Patriarch BS
0-1 Dark Blood Cardinal May drop Dark Blood faction modules or an implant TRIGGER BS
Second location — Timed wave (1 minute after warp-in) 2 ships
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4 Corpatis Shade/Exorcist/Bishop BC
3 Blood Patriarch/Pope BS
Second location — Timed wave (2 minutes after warp-in) 3 ships
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3-4 Corpatis Archbishop/ BC
1-2 Blood Harbinger BS
2-3 Elder Corpum Shade/Phantom C
Second location — Reinforcements (triggered by destroying all ships from initial defenders) 1 ship
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5 Blood Pope/Harbinger BS
Second location — Notable structures 1 ship
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1 Blood Outpost Station TRIGGER

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Faction/commander drops scale with the chain's depth; the fourth site carries the headline table.

Go deeper

Blood Owned Station (Expedition chain) Blood Raider Powergrid (Expedition chain) Blood Surveillance Squad (Expedition chain)

Escalations

Escalates from: Blood Military Complex

Sources

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