[Klyde]

They used to be right around the station, as if attacking it. Which is what the dialog eludes to from the mission giver.
I just started a new toon and after searching found them also.

[Fujisanka]

Jerrod Syn, on 27 July 2010 - 10:41 AM, said:

With help from those online, I found the Suicidal critters (The swarm) From Nav1, head towards Deimos about 15-30k.

And your forum avatar is from Eve Online. Oh the irony.

But seriously, starter zone quests are supposed to be easy, simple, educational, and fun. In that order. If someone has to ask in chat what to do or join a group to finish a starter zone mission then the mission designer has made a serious error. Requiring those sorts of things later in the game is fine, heck I expect it. But the starter zones should be meant for people new to the game who are playing solo and don't have any outside resources of any kind to fall back on. Not other people to ask questions of, not money, not firepower, not friends to help them. Nothing.

Think of a noob with a tiny gun strapped to their tiny ship who is still learning how the nav computer and game interface work. Even getting the correct end of said gun pointed at a mob might still be a bit challenging. Never mind free warping. If this person cannot solo every starter zone missions then the missions are designed wrong. Period.

Put the challenge in the later missions and game content, not in the starter zones.