The Cathedral of Kadesh

Thinking ourselves free we are pulled out of hyperspace by 3 hyperspace inhibitors. It is a trap, one we must escape, we can not allow this race to stop us from reaching our Homeworld. Prepare for battle.

Mission Objectives

1. Destroy the Hyperspace Inhibitors

The Kadeshi posses a form of hyperspace inhibitor, each of the detected fields reside on a needle ship. We must destroy the needle ships at points A, B, and C to escape.

2. Destroy attackers

Despite the possibilities our investigations have uncovered, we MUST destroy all the attackers to reach our intended goal of returning to our Homeworld.

New Research

1. Drone Frigate *

New Ships

1. Drone Frigate *

What I do

Entering the mission I will immediately launch my 25 heavy corvettes. I set them up once again as I did in mission 7 in an aggressive wall with SF support for repair. This time the Kadeshi are after my capital class ships. They home in on my new destroyers first then later try to take out my resourcers as well. Once again I keep the resourcers at my MS and on evasive tactics so they can dock for repair.

This time I have to coordinate my capital ships with my heavy vettes to keep both in top condition while trying to take out the swarmers. This time around though a new monkey wrench is thrown into the engine, I find strange looking ships approaching my MS. These ships turn out to have 4 ion cannons each, making them the deadliest frigates around. Until I salvage enough of them I can't let my support leave the area, if I do these ships can rip apart my MS in record time.

I could destroy them but as the economical guy I am, I prefer to salvage them instead. They are pretty fragile for such dangerous ships but adding them to your fleet or retiring them for the resources is the ideal thing to do. Once I have at least 5 of the group captured waiting for internment, I'll let my capital ships and vettes go to take out the needle ships.

You will find the needle ships at points a, b, and C on the map. The first 2 needle ships will fall relatively easily, the last, which ever one you attack last, will hyper to a point many kilometers straight ahead of you at point D. You must chase it down and destroy it. Problem is a new wave of the multi-beam frigates is on the way, you have to take care of them first. Once again salvettes away.

Once you get to point D you get a surprise, a little bit of a family tree revelation. How sad you must destroy all the Kadeshi you have so far encountered. Once the last needle ships is finished the mission is done and you can hyper out at any time.

*If like me, you did not choose to buy the drone tech from the Bentusi in Diamond Shoals, you will be informed at the start of the mission that it has been made available for research. Even though I don't use it in the single player missions at all I'll start the research.