EVE Echoes: How to Clear Capital Ship Special Fleets in an Aeon

To clear a Capital Ship Special Fleet (CSSF) anomaly in EVE Echoes using an Amarr Aeon supercarrier, enter the grid at standoff range, sustain your active armor repairer with booster charges against heavy neuting, and eliminate electronic warfare escorts before committing heavy fighters to capital hulls. CSSF sites spawn elite nullsec battlegroups composed of dreadnoughts, carriers, force auxiliaries, and electronic warfare support wings that will overwhelm passive defenses and unfocused strike craft.

Grid Entry and Positioning

Dropping directly onto the beacon exposes your supercarrier to immediate point-blank alpha damage from hostile capital batteries.

Warp in at standoff range: Set your entry point between 40 km and 60 km from the primary spawn beacon. This distance forces short-range blaster and autocannon dreadnoughts to burn across grid before dealing full damage, giving your active tank time to stabilize.
Establish an escape alignment: Immediately align toward an allied Citadel or safe celestial at low throttle. Supercarriers possess heavy inertia and slow align times; maintaining an active alignment vector allows you to initiate warp quickly if incoming damage spikes or neutral pilots enter local chat.

Module and Rig Priorities

CSSF enemies combine heavy weapon alpha with aggressive energy neutralization. Relying on passive capacitor regeneration will cap-dry your ship and disable local repairs.

Priority	Module / Rig Type	Combat Function
1	Capital Armor Repairer	Cycles sustained armor replenishment against heavy capital volleys.
2	Reactive & Specific Armor Hardeners	Boosts EM and Thermal resistance against incoming faction damage.
3	Capital Capacitor Booster	Injects cap charges to keep repairers cycling under heavy neutralizer pressure.
4	Fighter Damage Amplifiers	Increases strike craft DPS to burn through enemy logistics and capitals faster.
Rigs	Trimark Armor Pumps & Repair Efficiency	Expands total armor buffer and increases repair throughput per second.

Load your Capital Capacitor Booster with large booster charges before initiating warp, and reserve capacitor injections specifically to maintain your repair cycles when energy neutralizing ships apply pressure.

Target Prioritization Sequence

Blindly commanding fighter squadrons to attack enemy capital hulls leads to heavy fighter attrition and pinned carriers. Clear sub-capital threats in this order:

Electronic Warfare and Tackle (Frigates and Cruisers): Deploy Light Fighters immediately against warp disruptor, warp scrambler, and stasis web platforms. Removing tackle protects your fighters and ensures your Aeon can warp out if needed.
Energy Neutralizing Battleships: Direct strike craft to eliminate neuting support hulls before they drain your base capacitor pool dry.
Hostile Carriers and Logistics (Force Auxiliaries): Eliminate enemy repair chains and anti-fighter screens once energy neutralization and tackle are neutralized.
NPC Dreadnoughts: Group your Heavy Fighters and torpedo bombers to burn down the remaining dreadnoughts.

Monitor fighter wing health bars continuously. If a dreadnought's secondary batteries target a specific squadron, recall it immediately to the Aeon's hangar to repair and relaunch.

Emergency Evacuation Protocol

If hostile players enter the system or your armor tank begins to fail under concentrated fire:

Recall all fighter wings immediately.
Overheat your armor hardeners to maximize damage resistance.
Clear any close-range tackle ships with defensive light fighters or smartbombs.
Warp to your pre-aligned safe celestial or call in your standby cynosural beacon pilot for fleet extraction. Never risk a supercarrier hull to finish an anomaly wave.