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Minor Guristas Annex

Unrated · difficulty rank 7Low SecurityGuristas Pirates

The Minor Guristas Annex is an Unrated Complex found by scanning in Low Security regions with Guristas presence.

Quick answersAccessFaction threat profileNPC rosterPayoutGo deeperEscalationsSources

Quick answers

Where is the Minor Guristas Annex in EVE Online?

The Minor Guristas Annex spawns in low-sec. How you find it: cosmic signature (combat scanning).

What spawns in the Minor Guristas Annex?

The Minor Guristas Annex has 10 waves and about 79 NPCs: 29 battleships, 10 battlecruisers, 11 cruisers, 10 destroyers, 13 frigates and 4 sentry towers. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Pith Communications Officer, Weapons Manufacturing Plant, Pith Militant Supervisor(Pith Massacrer) and Dread Guristas Executor.

What should I tank and shoot in the Minor Guristas Annex?

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

Does the Minor Guristas Annex escalate?

Completing the Minor Guristas Annex can escalate to Guristas Owned Station.

What does the Minor Guristas Annex drop?

Commander spawns can drop faction modules; may escalate to an expedition. No structured drop data banked yet.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Ship restrictions
Unknown

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.

First Pocket — Initial defenders 5 ships
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2 Pith Cruise Missile Battery Sentry
1 Pithior Renegade D
4-5 Dire Pithum Inferno/Mortifier C
4 Pith Dismantler/Extinguisher BS
1 Pith Communications Officer TRIGGER BS
First Pocket — Wave 2 5 ships
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2-3 Dire Pithi Plunderer/Destructor F
2 Pithior Guerilla/Terrorist D
3 Dire Pithum Inferno C
2 Pithatis Revolter/Death Dealer BC
1 Pith Communications Officer TRIGGER BS
First Pocket — Wave 3 5 ships
QtyNPCHull
2-3 Dire Pithi Plunderer/Destructor F
2 Pithior Guerilla/Terrorist D
1 Dire Pithum Mortifier C
2 Pithatis Revolter/Death Dealer BC
1 Pith Communications Officer TRIGGER BS
First Pocket — Wave 4 3 ships
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3 Pith Commander's Henchman C
3 Pith Commander's Guardian BS
1 Pith Militant Commander BS
First Pocket — Notable structures 1 ship
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1 Acceleration Gate
Second Pocke t — Notable structures 1 ship
QtyNPCHull
1 Weapons Manufacturing Plant TRIGGER
Second Pocke t — Initial defenders 3 ships
QtyNPCHull
2 Pith Cruise Missile Battery Sentry
3 Pithior Supremacist/Terrorist D
12 Pith Conquistador/Destroyer/Dismantler/... BS
Second Pocke t — Supervisor wave 3 ships
QtyNPCHull
5 Supervisor's Henchman(Dire Pithi Demolisher) F
3 Supervisor's Guardian(Pithatis Assassin/Death Dealer) BC
1 Pith Militant Supervisor(Pith Massacrer) TRIGGER BS
Second Pocke t — Timed spawn 3 ships
QtyNPCHull
2 Pithior Guerilla/Renegade D
2 Pithatis Assaulter/Assassin BC
3 Pith Conquistador/Destroyer BS
Second Pocke t — Commander wave 3 ships
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4 Dire Pithi Arrogator/Imputor F
1 Dread Guristas Executor Possible Dread Guristas faction modules or implants TRIGGER BC
2 Pith Dismantler BS

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Commander spawns can drop faction modules; may escalate to an expedition. No structured drop data banked yet.

Go deeper

Gurista Outpost (Unrated · difficulty rank 6) Guristas Annex (Unrated · difficulty rank 8) Gurista Base (Unrated · difficulty rank 9)

Escalations

  • Guristas Owned Station — ~5% chance on completion to open the Guristas Owned Station expedition (multi-part chain via The Agency) 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.