Deception at Destrillion

Briefing: Infiltrate the Empire's secret research facility. Locate vital targets and transmit their coordinates to the Y-Wing groups.

Objective: Fly through the energy tunnels. Locate the Imperial Research Facility.

The first part of this mission is self-explanatory. Just fly through the energy tunnel and avoid hitting the tunnel's edges and the bridge energy barriers that stretch across the tunnel's center. Reach the other side to complete the objective. If you have trouble dodging the barriers, try out the cockpit view.

Try using the cockpit view when moving through the energy tunnel.

GOLD MEDAL TIP: Memorize the location of the energy barriers so you can increase your ship's speed and get through this tunnel as quickly as possible. This holds true for the second tunnel as well (described later in this mission walk-through).

Objective: Destroy the TIE hunters inside the energy field.

There are many groups of TIE hunters inside the energy field. You're in an A-Wing which lacks decent shielding and armor so it might not take long for the TIE hunters to penetrate your ship's hull. Try to avoid getting shot as much as possible. The TIE hunters are very small and elusive; it's difficult to pursue the TIE hunters and destroy them.

This area contains many TIE hunters. Utilize the A-Wing's missiles to aid in their destruction.

Instead, watch for individual TIE hunters to turn and attack your A-Wing head-on. Line up your crosshairs with the approaching TIE hunter and fire. You should also utilize your A-Wing's secondary missiles to attack the TIE hunters from longer range.

GOLD MEDAL TIP: You must complete this section as quickly as possible, which isn't the easiest task given the elusive nature of the TIE hunters. You must utilize your secondary homing weaponry. As soon as you exit the tunnel, start targeting multiple TIE hunters with your secondary weapon. Start looking for TIE hunter trio groups and target as many as you can. The A-Wing's secondary weapon regenerates, so don't hesitate to use your entire supply. Check the readout and when another missile is in your storage, prepare to use it! Try to stick as close to the area's exit (the opposite tunnel) as possible so you can get out of the energy field as fast as possible once the last TIE hunter explodes.

Now you must traverse a tougher energy tunnel. Avoid the energy barriers as you did in the previous tunnel. Stay low and to the left through the tunnel's final crowded section and emerge unscathed.

Objective: Disable the shields surrounding the targeting relays. Destroy the targeting relays.

You now fly a Y-Wing on a bombing mission against the super laser ahead. There are three targeting relays and you must destroy all three to complete the objective. The problem is that shields protect the targeting relays. The shields must be disabled with two ion cannon blasts. To fire your ion cannon, hold down the "B" button until your crosshairs turn blue then let go to launch the ION blast.

TECH UPGRADE: Maneuver your Y-Wing into the circular structure in the center of the three targeting relays. You can fly down into this structure. Move near the bottom and run over the power-up icon to recover the spread proton bombs tech upgrade.

GOLD MEDAL TIP: A good way to destroy the shields is to approach from above the targeting relay. Move your Y-Wing to its highest point (the ceiling will eventually stop you). Fire two ION blasts to destroy the shield then destroy the relay with either your lasers or the Y-Wing's bombs. Start with the right-most targeting relay and work your way around clock-wise. Go fast between relays then slow down when using the ION. Make sure the relay is destroyed before moving on. To achieve gold medal time, you more than likely will have to destroy each relay in turn without a second attack run. Finally, to get a gold medal (and maybe even a silver), you need to shoot a few TIEs. As you approach the right relay, two TIEs approach head-on. Try and get them both then look for targets of opportunity when flying between the relays.