Unauthorized Military Presence, level 2

Don't forget to pick up the 10 Militants from the Personnel Transport Wreckage!

The mission groups need to be updated as of 8/5/2008.

Replacing some of the frigates in the first and second waves are Gistior Haunters, based on Minmatar Thrasher destroyers. There are 2 in the first wave, 5 in the second.

Angels now have a resistance to Explosive damage, heavy missiles will do less than half damage on most of the mobs during this mission.

There are mineable asteroids in this mission:
45 veldspar = 1.5M units
30 plagioclase = 750K units
16 pyroxeres = 500K units

The rocks I got were:
1,552,420 Veldspar
813,864 Plagioclase
479,979 Pyroxeres

I was able to aggro and take out each group in turn by firing a few shots at one ship in the group, without the other groups aggroing (group 1 first, then group 2, then group 3). I orbited the beacon, and as each group aggroed and came towards me, released a flight of 5 Hornet II drones, which tore through the ships in no time at all. At least two of the Gistii Ruffians in group 3 used target painters, but as very few of the ships lasted long enough to get in range, that had little impact. I did this mission in a Vexor, but took so little damage that pretty well any ship with a decent targeting range (e.g. 50km+) and capable of carrying 5 light drones (you want a drone control range of 40km+) would have been suitable.

The specific frigates and destroyers which I met with were slightly different to the ones listed above, but the overall numbers of frigates and destroyers in each group were the same as listed:
Group 1: 4 x Gistii Raider (frigate), 1 x Gistior Defiler (destroyer), 1 x Gistior Haunter (destroyer)
Group 2: 3 x Gistior Defacer (destroyer), 3 x Gistior Haunter (destroyer)
Group 3: 4 x Gistii Ruffian (frigate), 2 x Gistii Raider (frigate), 1 x Angel Cartel Personnel Transport