Story: The proposed rendezvous with the friendly ship Khar-Selim fails when the mysterious enemy who destroyed it then turns its guns on you. Difficulty: Easy Overview: Patience is definitely a virtue in this mission, as is good organization. The key lies in preparing for each attack with the proper mix of ships, and this may require waiting for resources to be harvested. Fleet: Arriving with the first mission's fleet is sufficient. Objectives Before sending a probe to the Khar-Selim's beacon, get your resource collector harvesting (remember, just select it and hit H, and let it do the thinking). There's no need to guard it. Since fleet intelligence will be too occupied with the enemy to remind you to research, start in on corvette drive right away. As soon as fleet command informs you this research is complete, continue researching your way through corvette chassis and heavy corvette. You'll need such ships later. Build a probe, but also build as many interceptors as you can (six or seven). Put them in formation with your scouts, and set their tactics to aggressive. The sub-missions are as follows: Send Probe to the Khar-Selim When you move your probe near the Khar-Selim, enemy fighters will swoop past it and attack your fleet. Therefore, make sure you are completely prepared for the attack before sending the probe. If you send the probe too early, you'll likely not have prepared enough defenses to repel the onslaught. Respond to the attack with your fighter group. This is a great chance to practice the dogfighting tactics mentioned in the combat section of this game guide. Choose enemies that are as far away as range allows, and look for chances to hit the enemy from behind as often as you can.
Salvage the Khar-Selim Once you've fought off the initial wave of fighters, fleet intelligence will instruct you to send a salvage corvette to recover their flight recording. Do not obey until you have harvested enough material to build at least four light and four heavy corvettes. Put them in formation as group two, but leave them by your mothership. Build a repair corvette and assign it to guard/repair your corvette group by selecting the repair corvette, holding down Z, and drawing a box around the corvette formation. Again, be sure to let off the Z key before you let off the mouse button, so you've selected the action instead of the ships. Defend Salvage Team After the recording has been salvaged, a second wave of enemies will attack, targeting the salvage corvette. Once they appear behind the returning corvette, take control of your fighter group and pick them off one at a time. As much as possible, focus on enemies that are flying away from you. |
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