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A large force of Taiidan ships soon assaults the Kuun-Lan. Expect a variety of different ships with the most potentially dangerous being a missile destroyer that assaults your command ship from the rear flank. There are several ways to deal with the missile destroyer. Your ACVs won't fare too well against the missile destroyers anti-fighter missiles. Frigates should prove effective, especially in concentrated fire.
A ramming frigate could push the missile destroyer away from the attack position buying extra time to eliminate other attacking ships. If possible, you could even salvage the missile destroyer with workers. Though certainly not necessary, it's a nice steal and serves to remove the missile destroyer from battle.
Engage the Taiidan force long enough for our insertion team to make planetfall. Keep the Kuun-Lan away from the sensor grid so that our base of operations cannot be scanned.
Continue to fight off the Taiidan assaults. Reinforce your fleets with ACVs or multibeam frigates, depending on your current losses. Monitor the battle closely and use your workers to heal damaged frigates or the Kuun-Lan. If you notice that a frigate is heavily damaged, select the vessel and open the right click menu. Select "dock" to order the frigate to return to the Kuun-Lan for repair. This sort of micromanagement helps keep costs down and units repaired for battle.
During the fight, you'll witness a cutscene of the resource collectors sending their codes and infiltrating the planetary surface. Use this as a cue that in the next few minutes, you must defend these same collectors. Eliminate remaining Taiidan forces quickly.
As you're battling the Taiidan attack force, start moving your fleet (including the Kuun-Lan) close to the sensor grid. Don't enter the grid, but make sure you can see the grid on the sensors manager. Once the Taiidan attack force is small enough that the Kuun-Lan and a few frigates can serve as defense, move your ACV group and frigate group into the sensor group ahead of the Kuun-Lan's position.
Protect your transports (disguised Taiidan resource collectors) from enemy fire, so they can dock with your command ship.
A cutscene will soon interrupt, showing the transports on the way home - with annoyed Taiidan forces following close behind! Move your ACV group and frigate group toward the resource collectors (blue blips on the sensors manager). Don't stop for anything; you must reach the collectors quickly to defend them from the Taiidan pursuit. Once in range, target the bombers and fighters swarming the resource collectors.
You can lose two of the three collectors and still complete the mission with success. If you lose all three, the mission ends in failure. You must move the fleet toward the sensor grid (the spot where the collectors emerge from) to save the resource collectors in time. Once the collectors (or collector) reaches the Kuun-Lan, it must take time to dock. Continue defending the collector against its attackers as the transports dock. Hyperspace once the collector docks and wait for your strike craft to enter the Kuun-Lan before heading to the next mission.
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