Public:Exploration Site Safety Guide

Signal Cartel Public Pages
Alliance Org Chart About Signal Cartel Co-Pilot "Allison" Discord Server Divisions Expedition TripTiks Exploration Site Safety Guide Join Signal Cartel Joining Signal Cartel FAQ Katia Sae Biography Kicked from Signal Cartel? New Eden Word Bank (NEWB) Signal Cartel in the EVE Media Signal Cartel Media Brief SC Custom Overview Pack Stranded in a Wormhole? Contact Us! Thera and Turnur Public Bookmarks
English Chinese French Japanese Korean Russian Spanish

The following are quick reference tables for evaluating PVE exploration site danger (such as hostile NPCs and/or exploding cans) based on the cosmic signature name. The cosmic signature type is identified at 25% scan, the name is revealed at 75% scan, and the site is warpable at 100% scan. Thank you to David Louis for the original forum post.

Note:  "SAFE" does not mean you are safe from PVP.  Always assume you are being hunted by other players.  Be forever vigilant dear explorers!

Relic Sites	Site Safety	HS	LS	NS	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6
Crumbling <>	SAFE	x
Decayed <>	SAFE		x
Ruined <>	SAFE			x	x	x	x
Forgotten <>	NOT SAFE				x	x	x	x	x	x

Data Sites	Site Safety	HS	LS	NS	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6
Local <>	SAFE	x
Regional <>	SAFE		x
Central <>	SAFE			x	x	x	x
Unsecured <>	NOT SAFE				x	x	x	x	x	x
AEGIS <>	NOT SAFE		x
SCC <>	NOT SAFE		x

Exceptions for Shattered Wormhole Systems:
1. Standard Shattered systems can contain sites of their own class, and also one class higher or lower.
2. Small Ship "C13" Shattered systems contain sites only found in C1, C2, or C3 systems.
3. Sansha Shattered systems (J005299, J010556, J011195) can spawn Sleeper Cache Data Sites (see below).
4. Silent Battleground (a very rare Data Site) in Shattered systems is SAFE.

Drone Data Sites	Site Safety	HS	LS	NS	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6
Abandoned Research Complex <>	NOT SAFE			x

Note: According to EVE Nomad, Drone Data Sites can spawn very weak rogue drone rats that can be destroyed with a civilian gun or a single light drone.

Ghost Data Sites	Site Safety	HS	LS	NS	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6
Lesser <> Covert Research Facility	NOT SAFE	x
Standard <> Covert Research Facility	NOT SAFE		x
Improved <> Covert Research Facility	NOT SAFE			x
Superior <> Covert Research Facility	NOT SAFE				x	x	x	x	x	x

Sleeper Cache Data Sites	Site Safety	HS	LS	NS	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6
Limited Sleeper Cache	NOT SAFE	x	x	x
Standard Sleeper Cache	NOT SAFE	x	x	x
Superior Sleeper Cache	NOT SAFE	x	x	x

Gas Sites	Site Safety	HS	LS	NS	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6
<> Nebula	SAFE	x	x
<> Nebula	VARIES			x
<> Reservoir	NOT SAFE				x	x	x	x	x	x

Gas cloud harvesting sites are quite variable. In general:
1. Mykoserocin nebulae are SAFE and found in HS, LS, and NS systems.
2. Cytoserocin nebulae are found in LS and NS systems. In NS, they can explode and/or spawn NPCs.
3a. Fullerene sites are found in wormhole systems.
3b. Ordinary Perimeter Reservoir sites found in wormholes deal immediate high alpha damage!
3c. Other wormhole gas sites will spawn NPCs based on a timer that is triggered upon warping to the site.

Table Legend
<> = wildcard
SAFE = no NPCs; no Timers; nothing bad you can activate
X = possible site location
HS = high sec; LS = low sec; NS = null sec
C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, and C6 = wormhole system class