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Guristas Pirates signature battleship: Rattlesnake

Guristas Hidden Hub

Guristas Pirates Tier 8 family: BaseHidden ForsakenForlorn

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Quick answersAccessFaction threat profileNPC rosterPayoutGo deeperEscalationsSources

Quick answers

Where is the Guristas Hidden Hub in EVE Online?

The Guristas Hidden Hub spawns in low-sec and null-sec. How you find it: combat anomaly (on-board scanner, no probing).

What spawns in the Guristas Hidden Hub?

The Guristas Hidden Hub has 9 waves and about 107 NPCs: 15 battleships, 14 battlecruisers, 23 cruisers, 8 destroyers, 46 frigates and 1 sentry tower. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the trigger is Pithum Eraser.

What should I tank and shoot in the Guristas Hidden Hub?

Guristas Pirates deal Kinetic (79%) / Thermal (18%) damage and are weakest to Kinetic / Thermal; they use ECM.

Does the Guristas Hidden Hub escalate?

Completing the Guristas Hidden Hub can escalate to Dread Guristas Fleet Staging Point.

What does the Guristas Hidden Hub drop?

Bounties plus a chance of a faction/commander spawn. No structured drop data banked yet — wave and loot detail is exactly what the verified-on-camera tier exists to fill.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Ship restrictions
Not recorded

Faction threat profile C Single-source / unverified

EWAR used
ECM

Faction-level profile, not site-specific. Tank their damage, shoot their weakness.

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.

Wave 1 15 ships
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2 Pithi Destructor F
1 Pithi Demolisher F
1 Pithi Plunderer F
1 Pithi Wrecker F
2 Pithior Supremacist D
2 Pithior Terrorist D
1 Pithior Guerilla D
2 Pithum Eraser C
2 Pithum Inferno C
2 Pithum Mortifier C
6 Pithatis Revolter BC
2 Pithatis Death Dealer BC
2 Pith Massacrer BS
1 Pith Usurper BS
1 Guristas Cruise Missile Batteries Sentry
Wave 2 4 ships
QtyNPCHull
3 Pithi Plunderer F
2 Dire Pithi Demolisher F
2 Dire Pithi Destructor F
3 Pithum Eraser TRIGGER C
Wave 3 7 ships
QtyNPCHull
1 Pithi Destructor F
1 Pithi Demolisher F
2 Dire Pithi Saboteur F
1 Dire Pithi Despoiler F
3 Pithior Terrorist D
1 Pith Destroyer BS
1 Pith Conquistador BS
Wave 4 8 ships
QtyNPCHull
2 Pithi Plunderer F
2 Pithi Wrecker F
2 Dire Pithi Plunderer F
1 Dire Pithi Wrecker F
1 Dire Pithi Destructor F
2 Pithum Abolisher C
2 Pith Dismantler BS
1 Pith Extinguisher BS
Wave 5 9 ships
QtyNPCHull
2 Pithi Plunderer F
2 Pithi Wrecker F
2 Dire Pithi Destructor F
1 Dire Pithi Demolisher F
1 Pithum Eraser C
1 Pithum Abolisher C
2 Dire Pithum Eraser C
2 Pith Destroyer BS
1 Pith Conquistador BS
Wave 6 5 ships
QtyNPCHull
2 Pithi Plunderer F
1 Pithi Wrecker F
2 Pithum Eraser C
1 Pith Destroyer BS
1 Pith Conquistador BS
Wave 7 8 ships
QtyNPCHull
2 Pithi Wrecker F
1 Pithi Plunderer F
2 Dire Pithi Destructor F
1 Dire Pithi Wrecker F
2 Dire Pithum Abolisher C
2 Pithatis Death Dealer BC
1 Pithatis Revolter BC
2 Pith Conquistador BS
Wave 8 5 ships
QtyNPCHull
1 Pithi Plunderer F
1 Pithi Wrecker F
2 Pithum Inferno C
2 Pithatis Revolter BC
1 Pithatis Death Dealer BC
Wave 9 3 ships
QtyNPCHull
2 Pithi Demolisher F
1 Pithi Wrecker F
2 Pithum Abolisher C

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Bounties plus a chance of a faction/commander spawn. No structured drop data banked yet — wave and loot detail is exactly what the verified-on-camera tier exists to fill.

Go deeper

Guristas Forlorn Hub (Tier 8 · Forlorn) Guristas Forsaken Hub (Tier 8 · Forsaken) Guristas Hub (Tier 8)

Escalations

  • Dread Guristas Fleet Staging Point — Chance to escalate to Dread Guristas Fleet Staging Point (DED 9/10) on FULL completion — community-estimated low single digits to ~8%, never published by CCP; see the Escalations & Expeditions page C Single-source / unverified

Sources

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