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It's believed an alien ship called the Naggarok picked up the lifeform in hyperspace. Once it was discovered what the lifeform was, an attempt was made to destroy the ship to prevent the lifeform from escaping. The self destruct sequence, though, automatically launched a distress beacon containing a small amount of the lifeform - just enough to breed again, when the pod was found nearly a million years later.
Send a recon to investigate what is attacking the convoy.
A Taiidan rebel convoy, just outside the Kadiir Nebula, has issued a distress call. As the mission begins, orders are to investigate the distress signal and the convoy to see firsthand what is threatening the rebel ships. Before you send out the recon, start preparing your fleet for the mission ahead.
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The Mayday signal comes from a friendly convoy under attack from the Beast! |
First, hit the R button to open the research menu - you have a new technology option. Research armor level two and upgrade applicable units to the new armor. Select your workers and order them to harvest the nearby resources. If you possess a processor, order it to guard the workers. Your worker group will be threatened during the mission; guard it with a group of eight to ten acolytes.
Next, build enough support modules to maximize your support units (if you haven't already). Then, produce around 40 to 50 acolytes and assign them to five or six different attack groups. If you can afford more acolytes, maximize your support units with the weak, but agile fighter.
When ready, move the Kuun-Lan and your entire fleet toward the distress call (indicated by the radar ping on the sensor manager). As you approach, you realize the magnitude of the situation. The Beast ships have launched cruise missiles, specially designed bio-weapons that will infect ships. A convoy ship can withstand a few cruise missiles, but the more that get through, the more trouble you'll have. Each time a convoy ship is converted, it starts launching cruise missiles of its own.
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Use the sensors manager to maneuver your groups of acolytes around the map and intercept the incoming cruise missiles. |
Protect your convoy from multiple waves of Beast infection missiles. The best way to do this is to send groups of recons and acolytes to the perimeter of the convoy and immediately attack any Beast ships that show up in sensors manager. Move your command ship closer to the route of the convoy, so you can deploy reinforcements from a shorter distance.
As soon as the objective becomes available, open the sensors manager and send an acolyte group (each group should contain ten or more acolytes) to each cruise missile radar ping. Set the acolytes on aggressive tactics and in X formation. You should do most of the action from the sensors manager. When you spot the red enemy blips, select one acolyte group (each one should be set to an attack group) and control bandbox select the nearest group of cruise missiles.
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