The Guristas Yard spawns in low-sec. How you find it: combat anomaly (on-board scanner, no probing).
What spawns in the Guristas Yard?
The Guristas Yard has 13 waves and about 38 NPCs: 22 cruisers, 6 destroyers, 6 frigates and 4 sentry towers. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Pithum Ascriber/Silencer, Guristas Heavy Missile Battery and Pithum Murderer.
What should I tank and shoot in the Guristas Yard?
Guristas Pirates deal Kinetic (79%) / Thermal (18%) damage and are weakest to Kinetic / Thermal; they use ECM.
Does the Guristas Yard escalate?
Completing the Guristas Yard can escalate to Guristas Hallucinogen Supply Waypoint.
What does the Guristas Yard 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.
Dark Shipyard type — Initial defenders2 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
2
Guristas Heavy Missile Battery
Sentry
2
Pithum Ascriber/Silencer TRIGGER
C
Dark Shipyard type — Wave 21 ship
Qty
NPC
Hull
1-2
Pithum Inferno/Mortifier
C
Dark Shipyard type — Wave 32 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
2-3
Pithi Destructor/Wrecker
F
3
Pithum Killer/Murderer
C
Dark Shipyard type — Wave 42 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
2-3
Pithior Guerilla/Renegade/Supremacist
D
2-3
Pithum Inferno/Mortifier
C
Dark Shipyard type — Wave 52 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
3
Pithior Anarchist/Guerilla
D
2-3
Pithum Killer/Murderer/Silencer
C
Dark Shipyard type — Rare commander wave1 ship
Qty
NPC
Hull
1
Dread Guristas Ascriber/Silencer Possible Dread Guristas faction items or implants
C
Silo type — Initial defenders2 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
1-2
Pithior Guerilla/Terrorist
D
1-4
Pithum Inferno/Mortifier
C
Silo type — Wave 22 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
1
Guristas Heavy Missile Battery TRIGGER
Sentry
2-3
Pithum Murderer TRIGGER
C
Silo type — Battery wave1 ship
Qty
NPC
Hull
1
Guristas Heavy Missile Battery
Sentry
Silo type — Wave 32 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
2
Dire Pithi Destructor/Wrecker
F
2
Pithum Ascriber/Silencer
C
Silo type — Wave 41 ship
Qty
NPC
Hull
2
Pithum Abolisher/Eraser
C
Silo type — Wave 52 ships
Qty
NPC
Hull
2
Dire Pithi Arrogator/Imputor
F
3
Pithum Nullifier/Annihilator
C
Silo type — Rare commander wave1 ship
Qty
NPC
Hull
1
Dread Guristas Ascriber/Silencer Possible Dread Guristas faction items or implants
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.
Guristas Hallucinogen Supply Waypoint — Chance to escalate to Guristas Hallucinogen Supply Waypoint (DED 5/10) on FULL completion — community-estimated low single digits to ~8%, never published by CCP; see the Escalations & Expeditions page C Single-source / unverified
Guristas Pirates