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Sansha's Nation signature battleship: Nightmare

Slave Breeding Plants

An expedition — a multi-part escalation chain (typically four sites) obtained by chance (~5%) from an unrated complex, tracked in The Agency. Each completed part has roughly a 50% chance to continue, usually toward lower-security space than where it began.

Quick answersAccessNPC rosterPayoutGo deeperEscalationsSources

Quick answers

Where is the Slave Breeding Plants in EVE Online?

The Slave Breeding Plants spawns in high-sec, low-sec and null-sec. How you find it: escalation only — cannot be scanned down.

What spawns in the Slave Breeding Plants?

The Slave Breeding Plants has 7 waves and about 85 NPCs: 3 cruisers, 12 destroyers and 16 frigates. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are True Sansha and True Sansha's Enslaver.

Does the Slave Breeding Plants escalate?

The Slave Breeding Plants is itself an escalation from Sansha Lookout.

What does the Slave Breeding Plants drop?

Faction/commander drops scale with the chain's depth; the fourth site carries the headline table.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Ship restrictions
Unknown

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.

Warp in — Initial defenders 3 ships
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3-4 Centii Butcher/Enslaver/Manslayer/Plague F
4 Centior Abomination/Devourer D
0-1 True Sansha Faction modules TRIGGER F
Second Room — Structures 2 ships
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1 Sansha Bunker
51 Veldspar
Warp in — Initial defenders 3 ships
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3-4 Centii Enslaver/Manslayer/Plague F
4 Centior Abomination/Devourer D
0-1 True Sansha's Enslaver Faction modules TRIGGER F
Second Room — Initial defenders 1 ship
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3-4 Centii Savage/Slavehunter F
Warp in — Initial defenders 3 ships
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4 Centii Loyal Plague F
4-6 Centior Horror/Monster D
0-1 True Sansha's Enslaver Faction modules TRIGGER F
First Pocket — Initial defenders 2 ships
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3 Centii Enslaver/Manslayer F
3 Centum Ravager/Ravisher C
First Pocket — Structures 1 ship
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2 Sansha Bunker

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Faction/commander drops scale with the chain's depth; the fourth site carries the headline table.

Go deeper

David V Goliath (Expedition chain) Drop (Expedition chain) Hidden Riches (Expedition chain)

Escalations

Escalates from: Sansha Lookout

Sources

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