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Your sensor grid has been knocked out in this area. Send recons in to explore and fight what enemy ships may be lurking there.
Send your acolyte group (group 1, defending the firelance frigates) back to the Kuun-Lan; dock it to automatically repair any damaged vessels. Depending on your current acolyte force, produce additional ships. At least 15 should be sufficient, though feel free to use more to maximize firepower in the battles that lie ahead.
Once all ships are back at the Kuun-Lan, select your three recon ships and assign them to a second attack group. Hold your position at the Kuun-Lan and switch on the sensor map to observe a second Taiidan interceptor group approaching from the main battle. Destroy the interceptors with your aggressive acolytes.
Use the sensor map to locate the designated region. Move the recons and acolytes to the designated area. Order the recons to guard the acolytes, so your recon scouts and acolyte fighters arrive at the region simultaneously. As you near the region, a cutscene interrupts your approach.
Destroy all enemy resource collectors harvesting in the area. Be on the look out for any ships guarding the resources.
A few defenders guard the resource collector convoy. Order your acolytes against the defenders. Stop the recons by using the right click menu and selecting "cancel." With your powerful acolyte force, there's no reason to endanger the recons by moving them into the defenders' firing range.
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With the defenders eliminated, the resource collectors are sitting ducks. Place the acolytes in sphere formation and attack each resource collector in turn. The faster you attack, the more resources remain for your own workers to harvest.
During the battle, command sends a message that a new linking technology is available for research. The technology lets two acolytes link together into a single, more powerful ACV craft. Additionally, you can simply produce the ACV from the command ship and unlink the ship into two acolytes if you wish.
You have a few moments of relaxation after the resource collectors are destroyed. Use the time to move the Kuun-Lan command ship to the resource patch you just liberated. Alternatively, you could build a processor and send it along with your workers to the resource cluster. Soon, though, a cutscene interrupts with new orders.
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