Outskirts of Kharak System

Fine tune and calibrate the hyper drive engines for proper hyper jumps.

1. Send probe to Khar-Selim

You are to build and launch a single probe to the suspected location of the Khar-Selim, point A on the map, to help better calibrate the hyper drive engines. Point A is 57 KM from the MS at 267 degrees on the compass.

2. Protect MS

When the probe arrives a detachment of enemy ships is sent at the MS, protect the MS and destroy these ships.

3. Salvage data from Khar-Selim

Once the attacking ships are destroyed, send the salvage corvette to the Khar-Selim, point A, to retrieve flight data to discover what transpired.

4. Defend salvage team

Once the salvage team is dispatched they will need protection from the marauding ships, ensure their data reaches the mother ship.

5. Protect MS

These new waves of fighters will attack the MS once the salvage corvette is safe, defend the MS from attack.

6. Destroy attackers

Once the data is analyzed the attackers will increase their harassment. You must destroy all the attacking fighters and corvette to safeguard your fleet.

New Research

1. Corvette Chassis
2. Heavy Corvette Upgrade

New Ships

1. Light Corvette (light)
2. Repair Corvette (rcorv)
3. Heavy Corvette (heavy)

What I do

This mission like many to follow is triggered. As such it is in your best interest to NOT trigger the mission until you are ready. Point A on the map below is the trigger point, once within viewing distance of point A pirate attacks will begin. I usually do not send the probe out until I have collected all the resources at point B on the map below.

This allows me the time to research the tech I get and build 6-9 heavy corvettes and 4-6 repair corvettes. I place my heavy vettes in an aggressive wall and have the repair vettes repair them. This ensures I have a hard hitting group of strike craft that makes the best use of cost/performance ratios. I can use the same corvettes in the next 3-4 missions with little to no losses if careful.

This mission really only requires 6 Heavy corvettes and 4 repair corvettes to win, so if you build only that you will have a few extra resources laying around to build yourself 3 extra salvage corvettes, you WILL need them for the next mission. Keep the 6 vettes in a wall and only send them out to protect the salvette on it's trip to and from the Khar-Selim. Once the salvette is home and safe keep the heavies in close to the MS and the pirates will leave the area with you taking no losses in the fight.

NOTE:
You really should make sure you have at least 4 salvage and 4 repair corvettes at the end of this mission, if you do not you will have a difficult time completing the objectives of mission 3.