EVE New Citizens Q&A

I have a question about something rather particular.

If you go to the Amarr solar system and travel to the Caldari station there, you will at times see NPC slave traders flying toward the station from 150km or so away. Sometimes when you destroy these vessels, they will drop slaves. In this way, one can roleplay as though they are freeing the slaves from the grasp of the slave traders by seeking out these vessels, destroying them, and taking the slaves.

When you try to do this in Sarum Prime, the Sarum Navy attacks you. They are not a CONCORD force, and thus don't instantly tackle/kill you.

What I want to know is, if I got a large fleet together, full of remote repairs and cap-stable ships, could we engage the Sarum Navy, stand a chance of living through their constant barrage of ships, and just wreck them for an hour or two if we wanted?

I don't know exactly how the mechanics for Sarum Navy works. Is it like the Faction Warfare navy that keeps coming, bigger and bigger, until you just can't handle it any more? Or does it cap at some point? Can we farm the Sarum Navy?

I dont think many people attack these ships anymore to be honest. But from memory,

You need to shoot them away from their owning faction. So if they belong to Sarum Navy, and you shoot them outside of the station they belong to, the station guns will engage. So if you shoot them near the caldari station, the Caldari dont give a monkeys.

Yes, in theory, just sit there popping the navy factions to the massive detriment of your standings, but they will spawn more and more, and for the aggressors, including any RR and eventually overwhelm you.

This may help

http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Guide:Attacking_Convoys

Very excellent guide, I've tested it out and it works great.

The freeing of slaves is a roleplay aspect that I'm also interested in, but how is it possible?

I believe that slaves in your hold are regarded as contraband in most systems other than the Amarr Empire and I haven't been able to discover a game mechanic that acccomplishes the process of freeing them.

Can anyone help?

Yes, you can tank navy NPCs.

In particular, it is important to know that (if the Sarum Navy NPCs work anything like any other navy NPCs) there is a hardcapped limit to how many spawns can appear on the grid at once - i.e., if you bring 1 person, it'll spawn one group, and if you bring 3 people it'll spawn 3, but eventually you'll hit a limit at which point they no longer spawn more groups. I can't remember it off the top of my head, but I believe it is 15 people.

Beyond that, a healthy dose of RR BSes or logi hanging at range will help greatly, of course. Also remember to tank EM/Therm, assuming you aren't expecting war targets to show up.



Ettu - unfortunately, there isn't any way to current enslave / free 'people' items. Most people will try to run them out of Amarr/Khanid sovereignty and consider them 'freed' at that point by merit of not being in the only nation that actually practices slavery. What you actually do with them at that point is up to you.