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The location of Admiral Hawkes is established, but can you save him in time?
Objectives: Find a navigable path to the far side of the antimatter ribbon. Locate and rescue Admiral Hawkes with a troopship. Blackwell must survive.
Things aren't going so well in Alkaid. The Mantis forces have attacked your forward supply base. You lack defenses and the base is falling to their frigates and carrier vessels.
Objective: Fend off the Mantis attack on your forward supply base.
Switch back to Tau Ceti. Gather your corvettes and missile cruisers and order them through the wormhole to Alkaid. Explore the area around the destroyed supply base at Alkaid Prime to locate the Mantis fleet. Target the nearest frigates first (make sure your entire fleet is together and the missile cruisers haven't lagged behind). You receive new orders once the Mantis ships are destroyed.
 Ships move much slower through asteroid fields. Keep this in mind during combat situations. |
You need to accomplish a series of tasks at this point. Maneuver a fabricator to the wormhole to Danan--it's in the bottom middle of the Alkaid sector. You may wish to construct a second fabricator at your headquarters in Tau Ceti. Construct several laser turrets around the wormhole to Danan.
Use a second fabricator (or the only fabricator if you want to take more time) to construct a light shipyard and supply platform around Alkaid Prime. You may also wish to build a refinery and then use the refinery to construct a harvester so you can gather the debris resources and asteroid ore around the planet. Once the light shipyard has been built, start increasing the size of your fleet with corvettes and missile cruisers. You should also use the ballistics lab in Tau Ceti to upgrade your ships' weapons.
TIP: Alkaid 2 is located in the lower-right section of the map. You can construct a supply station and other structures here.
 It's possible to capture a Mantis weaver and construct Mantis structures and units. |
Objective: Destroy the Mantis jumpgate.
Order your entire attack group to blast the alien jumpgate to free the wormhole to Baai. If you move a fabricator to the wormhole to Baai and decide to build a jumpgate, realize the Mantis force on the other side will simply destroy the jumpgate. Instead, construct several laser turrets to protect the entrance into Danan. Bolster your fleet with additional corvettes and missile cruisers.
 Protect the Alkaid region with a jumpgate. |
Enter Baai and eliminate any remaining enemy forces around the wormhole. Proceed toward the right edge of the map (there's a small gap between the antimatter ribbon and the nebula on the bottom edge). You reach a Mantis base in the lower-right corner of the map. Destroy its structures and defenders. You may need resupply by this point. Return to Alkaid to resupply and replace any destroyed ships.
Eliminate all defenses around the alien planet. Clear out all Mantis structures. Move in a fabricator to Baai and toward the planet. Construct several laser turrets around the planet for protection. Move a troopship toward the planet. Wait for a Mantis weaver (the equivalent of the fabricator) to move toward the planet. Capture the weaver with a troopship. Now you can construct Mantis structures and units! Use the weaver to construct a cocoon (headquarters) or a fabricator to construct a headquarters to supply the new planet.
Organize your fleet and get them to Baai Prime. With a supply station active, you now have a forward base to conduct the remainder of the mission. Explore the area around the antimatter ribbon above your new forward base and eliminate the incoming alien vessels. You'll locate Baal 2 in the map's center. Destroy the Mantis defenders and structures. Use a fabricator or the weaver to start construction on a new forward base by building a supply platform at Baal 2. You may be low on ore by this point as well. Consider a refinery to harvest the asteroid field on the right side of the map if any resources remain. Otherwise, you can harvest the nebula clouds or decide not to construct the refinery.
Explore the left side of the map to uncover Baal 3. Build another supply platform at Baal 3 to resupply your vessels. Continue exploration to the upper-right corner of the map to discover Baal 4. Eliminate the structures around the Mantis-controlled planet. Build a supply station if you wish. Maneuver around the upper antimatter ribbon to the upper-left corner of the map. It's here you discover the wormhole to Alkaid within the antimatter ribbon. Move your fleet through. Proceed toward the upper left and encounter the planet Alkaid 3.
Objectives: Troopship Hawkes' prison. Build a marine training facility.
Send a troopship to assume command of the Mantis' warlord training grounds structure to complete the mission with success.
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