Mercenary Den

Mercenary Den

Added in the Revenant release, Mercenary Dens are unique content to individual players that produce infomorphs for you sell or use.  Need to train a skills, find someplace safer to drop it, do some PVE, and is somewhat free money.  Thank you to Soldat Ender for the detailed explination in Horde #isk-making for most of this guide, and Zed Astao Virpio for his review of the document!

First, you train at least level 1 of "Mercenary Den Management", a 1 mil isk skill.   You need one level for each mercenary den you maintain.

Second, you need a PVE ship to run the content to keep the anarchy low on the den. A VNI and Gila can run the MTO pretty easily.

Third, you need some PVP experience to deal with possible player pirated attacking it.  Knowing how to call for help with your group is important.  It has a 24 hour reinforcement timer with a 6 hour window.  You then need to repair it's shields to 50% and will be inaccessible while in this state. If destroyed, has a 50% chance to drop the infomorphs inside.  So emptying it often helps a lot.

Fourth, you drop your Mercenary Den near a Skyhook and it will started to generate several Infomorph Decryption Key every hour.  Merc dens cost around 25 mil Q2 2025.

Fifth, you run the MTOs that it allows you to run.  These drop loot as well.  Running MTOs reduce anarchy and boosts development.  Develop maxes at 12 days if running MTOs.

Sixth, you pick up the Informorphs and sell for deathless BPCs and other items.  Each of these infomorphs sell for 9k Q2 2025.

A reminder, this is all tied to a single player character in game, it cannot be managed by an external entity.  In Sov Null, you usually pay a tax for helping maintain the structure.  Talk to Dynomike Holt if you want to rent one in Pandemic Horde, for instance.  If you fail to run your merc dens so it gets to anarchy 2, any sov null group will explode your dens.

Cashing in Infomorphs

To cash in the infomorphs, you can sell locally, ship to jita, or go to Zarzakh.  The good news, is that the Eve Scout bookmarks, you can get to Zarzakh very quickly.  Using Thera talks about it, but instead of thera, you are aiming for turnur holes, as Turnur is right next door to Zarzakh.

Some members of horde are producing around 6 bil a week doing these, Q2 2025.  570k infomorphs in 10k-70k stacks, 30k stacks seems about normal.  Was 580 mil in loot from 10-12 MTOs run.

After you get your Infomorphs, you head to Zarzakh in a cloaked ship. You warp to the infomorph trader in your cloaked ship at range slowboat to 5k off it cloaked to trade with it.  Once you are done trading, warp off again, again not decloaking.  A blockade runner works fine for this operation.

You need to warp to Infomorph Decryption Trader, which is a Large Collidable Item and need it on your overview.

Alternately, if you are collecting Atavum, can warp to the Atavum Research Trader.

This is where you can buy the new breacher pod skills as well.  As of Q2 2025, it's 1,895 Atavum (742 mil isk), or 53,280 Infomorph decryption keys (522 mil isk).

Pricing of Infomorphs

Here's where you make your money!

Ammo:

SCARAB Breacher Pod M Blueprint (1 m^3) - 720 Infomorph Decryption Key or 25 Atavum (each BPC builds 20 pods)

SCARAB Breacher Pod S Blueprint Crate (1 m^3) - 360 Infomorph Decryption Key or 15 Atavum  (each BPC builds 20 pods)

Ships/Modules:

Cenotaph Blueprint Crate (1 m^3) - 67,200 Infomorph Decryption Key or 2,390 Atavum

Medium Breacher Pod Launcher Blueprint Crate (1 m^3) - 4,080 Infomorph Decryption Key or 145 Atavum

Small Breacher Pod Launcher Blueprint Crate (1 m^3) - 2,400 Infomorph Decryption Key or 85 Atavum

Tholos Blueprint Crate (1 m^3) - 25,200 Infomorph Decryption Key or 895 Atavum

Skillbooks:

Breacher Pod Clone Efficacity (0.01 m^3) - 10,800 Infomorph Decryption Key or 385 Atavum

Breacher Pod Clone Longevity (0.01 m^3) - 14,400 Infomorph Decryption Key or 510 Atavum

Breacher Pod Launcher Operation (0.01 m^3) - 6,480 Infomorph Decryption Key or 230 Atavum

Breacher Pod Projection (0.01 m^3) - 10,800 Infomorph Decryption Key or 385 Atavum

Breacher Pod Rapid Firing (0.01 m^3) - 10,800 Infomorph Decryption Key or 385 Atavum

SKINR stuff:

Circle Carmine Matte - Limited (0.1 m^3) - 4,800 Infomorph Decryption Key or 170 Atavum

Coronal Horizon Bronze Metallic - Limited (0.1 m^3) - 12,00 Infomorph Decryption Key or 425 Atavum

Deathless Covenant - Limited (0.1 m^3) - 26,400 Infomorph Decryption Key or 940 Atavum

Edge of Cerulean Matte - Limited (0.1 m^3) - 4,800 Infomorph Decryption Key or 170 Atavum

Currently, this is https://janice.e-351.com/a/RBfsuD 1.84 bil to buy one of everything with 190,440 Infomorphs, Q2 2025.