Everyshore Intelligence Network

EIN-Advisory — Gerper: Extreme Predatory Activity — Avoid Industrial Ops During EU Prime (15:00–23:00 UTC)

Analyst: Everyshore Intel Network
Date: 2025-10-31
System: Gerper (Low-sec, Everyshore Region)

Executive Summary

• Gerper is currently a high-risk low-sec system with concentrated, persistent predatory activity. Threats are organized, small‑gang actors who deliberately target vulnerable industrial and explorer hulls as well as high-value combat ships.
• Typical overall threat rating for the period analyzed: ~3.6–4.2 (frequent, high‑skill small‑gang actors). Treat the system as compromised for solo or lightly‑escorted operations.

Observed Patterns & Temporal Risk

• Main daily risk window: 15:00 – 23:00 UTC (EU prime through late EU/early US). Expect the highest density of hunting activity then.
• Secondary/occasional spike: early morning (~04:00 UTC) — demonstrates the capability for targeted late‑hour runs; the system is not exclusively active during EU prime.
• Attack behavior is deliberate and repeatable — predators hunt specific ship types (miners, explorers, MTUs), not random roamers.

Named Predators & Tactics (observed)

• Michel Ferran — Proteus (T3) with support (notably Boruet Annages). High-value target specialist; uses Proteus flexibility plus EW support to deny escape. Highest danger to strategic cruisers and battlecruiser‑sized industrials. (Real threat ~4.7)
• Boruet Annages — Sentinel (EW frigate). Regularly operates as electronic‑warfare support, enabling kills by dampening/neutralizing victim response.
• Ronen Uitra — Astero / Succubus (covert ops). Specializes in harassing Ventures, Buzzards and other fragile industrial/explorer fits using cloaks and fast tackle. (Real threat ~4.0)
• Hunter Dredd — Orthrus (faction cruiser). Demonstrated high‑damage, multi‑stage ganks on industrial hulls and follow‑up capsule kills. (Real threat ~4.2)
• Tefkros — Curse (EW cruiser). Seen operating with EW support alongside other predators to trap and destroy larger industrials.
• Yasiin Bey — Venture (bait/tackle support). Low solo threat, but used in coordination with higher threats to secure kills.

Primary Threat Vectors

• Cloaky covert‑ops tackle (Astero/Succubus) on slow industrials/explorers.
• T3 cruiser/ganker compositions (Proteus + EW) for high‑value targets.
• EW support (Sentinel/Curse) that prevents warp‑outs or effective tank/targeting response.
• Opportunistic MTU/looted container hunting — MTUs are easy and immediate loot targets.

Advisory — Recommended Actions (rooted in observed data)

• Do not conduct mining/hauling operations in Gerper between 15:00–23:00 UTC. This is a sustained, high‑risk window.
• Avoid leaving MTUs deployed in system. MTUs present an easy, immediate target for looting/ganks.
• Avoid solo Ventures, Buzzards, civilian mining cruisers, and other unescorted industrials or covert explorers in-system at all times. Ronen Uitra and similar covert hunters actively patrol for exactly these targets.
• Avoid using expensive, strategic cruisers (T3s) in transit during prime hours unless moved with substantial escort and comms. Michel Ferran’s Proteus group has proven capable of catching and killing such ships.
• If you must transit through Gerper:
  • Travel in groups of multiple combat‑capable pilots where possible.
  • Maintain strict D‑Scan/overview discipline on approach and while in system; assume active cloaked scouts.
  • Align to a fast warp point and maintain the ability to instant‑warp out. Expect EW support to reduce reaction margins.
  • Use scout/cyno/route planning to avoid known hot periods; time your jump windows outside 15:00–23:00 UTC where feasible.
• Do not treat standard low‑sec safety routines as infallible here — the sophistication and coordinated EW use by local predators can neutralize routine escape options.

Final Assessment

• Gerper is currently compromised by organized small‑gang predatory actors. The system should be treated as high‑risk for any solo or lightly‑escorted industrial and exploration activity. Strategic cruiser pilots and haulers should avoid the system during the documented prime windows or only transit with prepared, coordinated escorts.
• The risk profile is persistent and targeted — avoidance and group operations are the only consistently reliable mitigations based on the observed behavior.

Everyshore Intel Network will continue to monitor aggregated data on Gerper to update threat indicators and advisories as patterns change.