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Serpentis Military Complex

Unrated · difficulty rank 11Null SecuritySerpentis Corporation

Serpentis Military Complex is an unrated complex that can be found in null-sec. It contains two rooms.

Quick answersAccessFaction threat profileNPC rosterPayoutGo deeperEscalationsSources

Quick answers

Where is the Serpentis Military Complex in EVE Online?

The Serpentis Military Complex spawns in null-sec. How you find it: cosmic signature (combat scanning).

What spawns in the Serpentis Military Complex?

The Serpentis Military Complex has 6 waves and about 83 NPCs: 36 battleships, 4 battlecruisers, 16 cruisers, 4 destroyers, 8 frigates and 13 sentry towers. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Slick-Silver's Control Tower and Shadow Serpentis High Admiral.

What should I tank and shoot in the Serpentis Military Complex?

Serpentis Corporation deal Thermal (55%) / Kinetic (45%) damage and are weakest to Kinetic / Thermal; they use Sensor Dampeners.

Does the Serpentis Military Complex escalate?

Completing the Serpentis Military Complex can escalate to Colony Under Fire.

What does the Serpentis Military Complex drop?

Gives around 35.000.000 ISK in bounties. =Escalation= If you get the escalation from destroying Slick-Silver's Control Tower, you see this message: Can escalate to Colony Under Fire Category:Unrated Complexes

Access C Single-source / unverified

Ship restrictions
Unknown

Faction threat profile C Single-source / unverified

EWAR used
Sensor Dampeners

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 Room — Structures 1 ship
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1 Gate To Slick-Silver's Pleasure Resort
First Room — Initial defenders 5 ships
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1-3 Coreli Guardian Initiate/Scout F
1-3 Coreli Guardian F
2-3 Corelatis BC
6-8 Core Admiral BS
12 Serpentis Tower Sentry Sentry
First Room — Gate scrambler spawn 3 ships
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0-2 Coreli Guardian F
5 Corelatis C
5 Core Admiral BS
Second Room — Structures 1 ship
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1 Slick-Silver's Control Tower TRIGGER
Second Room — Initial defenders 4 ships
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4 Coreli Guardian F
3 Corelum Guardian Chief Guard/Safeguard C
5 Core BS
1 Slick-Silvers Cruise Missile Battery Sentry
Second Room — Five additional waves that together contain 7 ships
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? Coreli Guardian F
? Coreli Guardian F
4 Corelior D
8 Corelium Guardian C
2-3 Corelatis BC
20 Core Admiral/High Admiral BS
0-1 Shadow Serpentis High Admiral Faction modules TRIGGER BS

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Gives around 35.000.000 ISK in bounties. =Escalation= If you get the escalation from destroying Slick-Silver's Control Tower, you see this message: Can escalate to Colony Under Fire Category:Unrated Complexes

Go deeper

Serpentis Fortress (Unrated · difficulty rank 10) Serpentis Provincial HQ (Unrated · difficulty rank 12) Serpentis Base (Unrated · difficulty rank 9)

Escalations

  • Colony Under Fire — ~5% chance on completion to open the Colony Under Fire expedition (multi-part chain via The Agency) C Single-source / unverified

Sources

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