Down the Chain

Mercenary Den & Tactical Operations

Personal deployable + PvE operations (Revenant)Null SecurityDeathless Circle

Revenant-era personal content: anchor a Mercenary Den (~24M ISK) beside a temperate-planet Skyhook and it generates Infomorph Decryption Keys every hour, plus Mercenary Tactical Operations (MTOs) — PvE sites a VNI or Gila clears comfortably. Two indexes run the economy: Development (rises over time and with MTOs; raises key yield) and Anarchy (rises over time, cleared by MTOs; at level 2, ~8 days untended, it starts siphoning the Skyhook owner's workforce). Run the MTOs every ~4 days to stay optimal. The den is attackable: 24-hour reinforcement timer with a 6-hour window, must be repaired to 50% shields, and a destroyed den has a 50% chance to drop the keys inside — empty it often.

Access C Single-source / unverified

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Player-anchored: deploy a Mercenary Den next to a temperate-planet Orbital Skyhook (needs Mercenary Den Management, one level per den)
Ship restrictions
Tied to one character — cannot be corp-managed; sov null may tax it

Operating rhythm (community, grade C)

  • Train Mercenary Den Management (1M ISK skillbook) — one level per simultaneous den.
  • Anchor next to a temperate-planet Skyhook; den cost ~24M (Q2 2025).
  • Run the MTOs it spawns (~every 48h; VNI/Gila-comfortable) — keeps Anarchy down, raises Development, drops loot.
  • Collect keys often — a destroyed den drops them at 50% chance.
  • Cash out at Zarzakh (Infomorph Decryption Trader or Atavum Research Trader), cloaked the whole way.

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Community figures (Q2 2025 - Q3 2026): a fully developed den makes ~70M ISK/week in keys, and MTOs average ~60M in vendor loot with one spawning roughly every 48 hours; keys sell ~9k each. Keys (or Atavums — each item takes one currency, never both) buy Deathless gear at Zarzakh's Infomorph Decryption Trader: Breacher Pod skillbooks, SCARAB/CARAB pod BPCs, Cenotaph (67,200 keys) and Tholos (25,200 keys) blueprint crates, SKINR components. Trade run: cloaked Blockade Runner via Turnur wormholes, slowboat to ~5 km off the trader, trade and warp out without decloaking.

Escalations

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

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-08-26 · game version: Cradle of War (Jun 2026). Spot an error? Corrections land fastest via the channel.