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Mission 5 - Great Wastelands
Story: With a newly enhanced fleet and revenge in their hearts, the colonists decide to eradicate the genocidal fleet of mysterious enemies from the system.
Difficulty: Moderate
Overview: A hidden enemy lurks deep within the asteroid belt. Harvest everything you can before tempting the enemy into an attack.
Fleet: This mission has a quiet beginning, so it is not important to arrive with any particular ships (apart from four or more stolen ion cannon arrays from the last mission). Before engaging the enemy, however, have in your fleet at least 20 fighters, 15 attack bombers, three ion cannon frigates, and four salvage corvettes.
Objectives
Much like the previous mission, don't jump into the objectives too quickly. Don't investigate the red blips inside the asteroid belt. Instead, take time to organize your fleet and harvest the resources nearest your mothership. The sub-missions for this mission are:
Investigate the Asteroid Belt
Don't do this, at least not too deeply. Instead, send your resource collector to harvest the two long arms of the nebula gas (see long-range sensor map), with a resource controller guarding it. While they do their jobs, organize your forces and research plasma-bomb technology (which becomes available after a bit). When your resource collector gets about half of one nebula arm harvested, recall the collector, and start harvesting at the tip of the other nebula arm. Save your game during the collection in case you trigger the enemy forces. If you do, just reload the game and begin resource collection on the other arm.
Don't harvest too far down the V-shaped split of resources. As you near the end, the enemy spots your collector and attacks. |
Build 15 attack bombers and guard them with all your fighters. Set up your capital-ship group (including corvettes, assault frigates, and the ion cannon arrays from the previous mission) away from the spot where the nebula cloud where the arms split. Once your harvesting operations get within shouting distance of the enemy position, the enemy will attack you.
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