Darkness: Plexing Black Hole C4

Corporate wormhole-life works in mysterious ways. At least if you are in Reconfiguration Nation. For reasons I don't have to go deeper into, I found myself placing a scanning alt in this particular C4 black hole system (Thanx NoHo! - Jag är skyldig er en).

It was nothing special about this system, it was inhabited, but after someone stront-checking the POS and the fight that followed between a third and fourth (!) party, they had picked up and left. System was empty. Not empty of combat sites though. There was 18 of them. 13 of that was Frontier Barracks, the preferred food for the Rattlesnakes that had become de facto standard in R-NAT. Black Holes have a tendency to accumulate sites because nobody in their right mind wants to do them.

-34% Missile Velocity (no fun for Tengus)
-34% Falloff (a killer for many turret based plexers)
-34% Lock range (no fun for anybody)
+68% Ship velocity
+68% Inertia
-34% Drone control range

Now, the only thing there that would affect our Rattlers is the drone control range. Would it be possible to easily refit our snakes to deal with that? If so, we would have a slight upper hand when finding one of these "unplexable site-piñatas" that Black Hole C4s often are.

That was a interesting enough prospect for me and my corp buddy Cheesy, so we decided to slightly refit our beloved Rattlers to deal with the shorter drone control range in the black hole and go there and do the 20 odd sites that had accumulated to learn.

Our normal Rattler-fit have a 2 + 2 cap-bounce/shield transport fit to work in pairs in normal C4s and especially in our home magnetar C4. The drone control range we get then typically outranges our lock-range and optimal so its not a problem. In the4 Black hole thou, a drone control range of 70ish would be a real efficiency killer. A lot of the BS spawn at 90-100km and don't ever come closer than 60km. So we simply replaced one of the shield transports for a third drone range link which, together with Electronic Warefare Drone Interfacing to at least 4 and a Large Drone Control Rig would give us 95km reach on the sentry-drones. We needed to compensate only having a single RR per ship with a third Rattlesnake, but would it be enough?

As it happened I failed and did not remember to re-rig one of my Rattlers, which meant we did a number of Frontier Barracks (plenty of long range BS) with one Rattler with 85km drone range and one with 95km and that difference was huge. 85km is not enough, 95km is. With three rattlers (one 85km gimped) we did a Frontier Barrack in little over 10 minutes. When I got the Rattler properly rigged that became 8 minutes.

High power
1x Large Shield Transporter II
3x Drone Link Augmentor II
2x Large Energy Transfer Array II

Medium power
1x Sensor Booster II
2x Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
1x Gistum C-Type EM Ward Amplifier
3x Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link

Low power
1x Signal Amplifier II
4x Drone Damage Amplifier II
1x Pseudoelectron Containment Field I

Rig Slot
1x Large Egress Port Maximizer II
1x Large Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II
1x Large Drone Control Range Augmentor I

Charges
1x Targeting Range Script

Drones
5x Warrior II
5x Hammerhead II
5x Garde II
5x Light Armor Maintenance Bot I
5x Bouncer II