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With Xenon station defence missions the difficulty is an extremely rough approximation. On normal difficulty there is almost always at least 1 K L fighter and 3 P M fighters independent on mission difficulty. Higher difficulty missions can have anywhere from 2 K L fighters to 16 P M fighters. It is worth noting that the fighter wing spawns are extremely biased towards P M fighters, which are the toughest M fighter and deal shield penetrating damage. Unless the player brings along at least 2 to 3 XL fighter ships it is recommended that the K L fighters be left to the station defenses.

Be careful around "Badlands Colony" and "Core Dig" stations. They don't have weapons, so if you start station defence mission for them, you will have to kill all enemies yourself.

Patrol Missions

This is similar to a chain of station defence missions in that you'll visit multiple zones and the various hostiles that may appear need killing. As with station defence missions, the payment is now separated into a base reward and a bonus payment.

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