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Bug: The mission objective points may seem to make no sense at some point. Eventually more reasonable/correct ones will be shown.
Anonymous Enemies
- Survive
The <player> has the option to flee from this encounter but should have no problem dispatching of the 2 hostile small craft. Yisha cheers seeing the destruction.
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Yisha will then state the obvious about Terran ships before some Reivers will spawn starting the Protect Station sub-mission
Protect Station (Medium)
- Protect: ?? Crystal Castle
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After recalling the drone back to the Albion Skunk a cinematic sequence will play and Commander Borman will contact the Albion Skunk about what to do next with the information gathered and about the Terrans in DeVries. Yisha will then momentarily disable ship control to tell the <player> about how it is "time to get out of here".
Find Yoolis
- Enter: Trojan ROV
Hack: Location
Head to Albion/Lookout Alpha/Auspicious Excavation and perform a hack challenge on Albion Energy Array I, II and III using the Trojan ROV. Yisha will then say that she thinks she has an idea where they are now. As hacking will not be required again until much later in the plot it might be a good idea to sell the Trojan ROV to simplify boarding operations. Yoolis is aboard a Construction Vessel AL in Dwarfish Tinderbox. It may be possible to find without performing the hack (???). After getting clearance to land on the Construction Vessel AL talk to Uliroos Tugloras Yoolis IV who reassures the <player> that the missing assets still exist and that PMC has been rounding up HoA sympathisers and placed them on a prison ship Taranis, "a converted freighter". After the conversation return to space where Ren Otani suggests stealing the prison ship rather than just busting the prisoners out, Yisha agrees strongly. This means a boarding operation which should be second nature to the <player> by now, if not a Marine Officer and some marines will need to be purchased.
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At the Jump Gate Commander Borman will say the impounded <player> ships are safe and PMC has reved up drone production and suggests expanding HoA operations into DeVries. The missing ships will suddenly appear by the Jump Gate and Yisha will suggest getting gifts for the Canterrans. The <player> will also receive a unique and fully crewed Construction Vessel able to set up an Integrative URV Forge which comes preloaded with 1,299 Reinforced Metal Plate. Now is a good opportunity to move all player assets to DeVries (Glaring Truth is a good temporary location). The capital ship crew on the Construction Vessel may be poor however, as it ends up stationary, the <player> only needs to consider replacing the Engineer and Defence Officer.
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There will be some heavy fighting ahead so it is recommended to get the Taranis that was boarded earlier (make sure it is fuelled up) to join the squad of the Albion Skunk. When the Albion Skunk reaches Furnace Chamber, the mining ship jumps in. After some dialog and a mention of the war, the <player> joins the scout party to look ahead. When in Fiendish Moloch a cinematic will play and there will be 7 REI light craft ahead to kill which should be trivial with the number of NPC allies. The convoy will next progress to Lava Flow where 12 REI light craft will be waiting. After killing the ships there will be more dialog and ? more REI light craft will spawn. if If the <player> owned Taranis has arrived it will be a slaughter. After a while Nakano will contact the Albion Skunk about unknown ships heading towards the mining convoy. At this point the HoA mining ship will jump out and 3 PMC light craft will spawn and try to attack the Mercancias (Bulk) ships the <player> has to escort. A PMC Light Sul jumps in and Yisha says that the <player> has to distract it. This ship is unable to be boarded and will try to jump away if it takes some damage (so kill the Jump Tunnel Device first). Managing to kill the Light Sul (easy even without the Taranis helping) will get "Woah! Can't believe we pulled that off!" from Yisha and a cinematic of the ship blowing up.
Before leaving Lava Flow use the Long Range Scanner facing upwards to find a unique lockbox with the Ancient Drone for the Ancient Relic Collection.
Bug: if If the mission is done well and all the miners and their escorts survive they can be found idling in Vapour Stream at the end of the highway waiting for REI raiding parties to kill them
Place a trade agent on the station and then head back to Glaring Truth where the first module of the Intergrative URV Forge should be finished and waiting for a Manager. Assign the two bulk mining capable ships and Mercancias (Bulk) as subordinates of the Intergrative URV Forge Manager.
Head back to RoC Solar Energetics and talk to Nakano. He will inquire about the survivors before offering HoA asylum in exchange for helping defend DeVries. A cinematic sequence will play explaining that CoT RoC is now at war with PMC. Return to the ship for some nostalgic dialog.
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