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Mission 9 - Sea of Lost Souls
Story: A hyperspace jump toward the Homeworld finds the mothership near a ship that appears ghostly but has powerful effects on its environment.
Difficulty: Easy
Overview: The capital ships in the grip of the ghost vessel will all be yours when you swarm them with scouts and salvage corvettes.
Fleet: To beat this mission and walk away with all the goods, you will need about 20 salvage corvettes and 40 fighters. The ghost ship itself is best attacked with corvettes and bombers.
Objectives
Though fleet intelligence sounds a little spooked, there's no need to rush to investigate the anomaly that appears on your long-range sensor map. Take your time and catch your breath after the intense mission you just completed. Organize your fleet, assign your presets, and then prepare to send a probe to the anomaly. This mission's sub-missions include:
Investigate Anomaly
Send a probe to investigate the ghost ship after you begin to harvest. You may need to send additional probes if the first one dies too quickly.
If you send a probe to the anomaly, you'll notice a large ship surrounded by several hostile capital ships. |
Destroy Alien Vessel
If your capital ships get too close to the ghost ship, you will lose control of them. Rather than build an immense fleet of fighters and corvettes, and hope to destroy the ghost ship's guards, build 20 salvage corvettes and 40 fighters. Set the fighters to evasive, and instruct them to target the entire group of enemy ships (but not the ghost ship).
Follow them immediately with a well-organized salvage assault. Using presets, target every vessel in the area with at least three salvage corvettes. Send five or six after the missile frigate alone, as it can shoot missiles at salvage corvettes that are already hanging onto it.
Don't send capital ships against the ghost ship, or you'll lose them! Use fighters and salvage corvettes to capture the hostile missile destroyer and multibeam frigates. |
Salvage the Unknown Vessel
Once you've stolen all the ghost ship's guards, attack the ghost ship with corvettes and bombers. Fleet intelligence will let you know when it's safe to salvage the ghost ship.
The Bentusi will be tickled pink that you have disabled the ghost ship and will offer you a good trade. Accept their offer. Research gravity-well technology before you hyperspace-jump to the next mission. The next mission starts out calmly; you'll have plenty of time to structure your fleet. The stolen missile destroyer (you can't build missile destroyers yet) makes the next mission much easier, so definitely concentrate on stealing the vessel.
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