Chapter 9 of 11 · Verified for Beta Patch 2
Going to Greylock
Greylock is the hub both factions share, and the gateway to the higher-tier breaches and their better loot.
Greylock is a gate fort that both factions share. It is where the game opens up: harder breaches, better loot, and enemy pilots docked next to you.
A contested hub
Both factions are present in Greylock, but the hub itself is safe to fly in, the same as your home hub. Duels are still fights to the death, here as anywhere. A faction's hub admits only that faction's members, while a neutral hub like Greylock is open to everyone.
Greylock also hosts the blueprint and industry merchant, the one blueprint source besides loot and your Quartermaster.
Higher-tier breaches
The higher-tier breaches unlock from Greylock, and that is where the better loot is. You clear each tier by extracting from it before the next opens, and deeper tiers roll more ports and rarer items.
They also take bigger ships. Build-rating limits per tier:
| Tier | Build rating |
|---|---|
| Stratum 1 | up to 6,000 |
| Stratum 2 | up to 8,000 |
| Stratum 3 | 6,000 to 10,000 |
| Stratum 4 | 8,000 to 13,000 |
| Abyssal | 10,000 to 16,000 |
| The Nest | 12,000 to 100,000 |
| Deep Strata | 16,000 to 200,000 |
Figures differ for Nest Sanctum, a tier 5 breach: up to about 30K build rating, against 100,000 for The Nest in the table.
The breaches off Greylock are also where Dark Triton is found. Keep it for recipes rather than recycling it. A dev believes salvage luck may help a mixed ore node upgrade to Dark Triton; that is not confirmed.
Bosses known so far include the Shield of Amnion in Kassik's Drift (Deep Strata), the Brood Queen (The Nest), the Spear of Amnion (Stratum 4) and its tougher Uber Spear (Abyssal).
Relocating
Relocate moves you, not your ship, to another hub where you already have a ship docked. Since it needs a docked ship at the destination, your first arrival at Greylock has to be in a ship.
Your materials do not follow you either. Moving them between hubs is manual: you haul them yourself. A Hauler such as the 
Achamoth, 
Mammon or 
Augr is built for exactly that.
Before you haul, remember two things:
- Cargo counts toward build rating at 25%, which can put a loaded hauler over a breach's limit.
- Anything outside the safety hold is lost if the hauler dies. Since Beta Patch 2 every ship, haulers included, has four safety hold cells in a 2×2 square at the top left of its cargo grid; before, each hauler had two.
Tip
Move only what you need. Rare minerals and spare blueprints are worth the trip; common drops are better recycled where you are.