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A very short and straightfoward mission where everything is carefully planned and is executed perfectly. If you can ever call something a "surgical strike", this'll be it. It's almost poetic, so you'll describe it when it's over.
Launch to space to meet Juni and Ozu. Follow the instruction and dock with the
Trade Lane heading to the Honshu Jump Gate. Once you exit, you'll see the Honshu
Jump Gate, but you're not using it, as Ozu will tell you. He'll give you a waypoint, so follow it. Along the way, you'll be met by the Blood Dragon strike team, only a few ships. They may be few in numbers, but the Blood Dragons are the best pilots in the colonies, so Ozu says. Follow the waypoint to head to the Honshu Jump Hole and take it.
After being updated about the current situation, head to the waypoint, which marks the Transport. Fly as fast as you can with your Cruise engines. Once the Transport is in sight, Ozu will give different task to everybody. Yours is to take out the Weapon Platforms. Head towards one of the Weapon Platforms while still in your Cruise mode. Disengage Cruise while you're close and fire at it with all you have. If you're using the old weapons from Bretonia, which are more powerful albeit slow, you should be able to take it out in a sweep or 2. Once the first one is done with, head to the second one with full afterburn and until you're in firing range. Once you're within range, don't hold anything back.
With the second Weapon Platform destroyed, it's time to eliminate the remaining ships. Help your allies to do it if you want. The Blood Dragons have managed to seize the Transport. Enter formation with it!
At around this time, there's like 1-2 enemies left, if you enter formation, you'll fly slowly with the Transport while your back is being shot like crazy by the enemy ship. So follow this advise, destroy them. Only after they're destroyed do you enter formation with the Transport.
The Transport will move a very long way in normal speed before engaging Cruise mode, thus the reason why you'll be shot at a lot if you don't destroy the few remaining enemy. Halfway through the journey, you'll be attacked by some enemy fighters. Send them to the scrap yard before rejoining formation with the Transport. At the Jump Hole, you'll be told to enter first, so do it.
Once in Chugoku, reenter formation with the Transport. That'll get you to
Kyoto, the legendary base of the Blood Dragons. Dock with the base when it says dock.
Bad news... neither Tekagi nor the Proteus Tome was in the Transport. It is the correct Transport, but it looks like Tekagi got one up over us. Well, Ozu says he'll try to get more information, while Juni goes to see if the Blood Dragons needs an extra pilot. She ask you to get yourself some jobs too. Anyway, the mission is finished. Mission successful, bar neither getting Tekagi nor the
Proteus Tome.
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Mission Result: Success
You have advanced to Level 15
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MISSION 08 ENDED
================================================
Ahh, the Blood Dragons. This time, you'll get the feel of flying for the other side. About time, I'll say. I got tired of playing Police and Navy assistant for all 3 Houses. Another level to gain before you can continue on the story.
Kyoto sells Adv. Sentinel, the best shield you can get in the SP Campaign, but it's quite expensive. Buy it if you can afford it. You should be able to if you followed my advise about having steady amount of Credits. It's worth it. Also,
Kyoto sells Advanced Thrusters, the best thrusters in the whole game, so if you might as well buy it. It's not very expensive. It'll give you a longer afterburn use time for your "expert" (should be by now) run and dodge skills.
Blood Dragons only have those fast firing but weak guns, so I am still using my old Bretonia guns. Like I said all these times, your choice of weapons is up to you.
Do some missions, and if you want, find the nearby Hokkaido jump hole. Once you enter Hokkaido, you'll see 3 wrecks in the NAV Map, quite near to where you're at, each loaded with 2 guns. If you don't know how to salvage equipments from wrecks, I'll explain. Just shoot at once, with weapon, and they'll drop whatever they hold for you to tractor in. Select them from the NAV Map and use
GoTo, it'll be easier to reach them that way.
If I'm not mistaken, getting that 3 wrecks is enough for you to gain a level.
Well, up to you if you want to salvage the wrecks, the weapons ain't that good.
Gaining some credits by doing missions is advised, though.
Anyway, when you've gained a Level, Ozu will contact you to meet him at Kyoto
Bar. Meet him there when you're ready.
/========================\
|3I: MISSION 09 |
.========================.
Hmm... an almost suicide mission. But this is the last chance for you to ever get your hands on the Proteus Tome. Accept it when you feel you're ready.
================================================
MISSION
================================================
OBJECTIVE:
Attack Tekagi's fortified base in the Tohoku System. You have to enter his base and steal the Proteus Tome out of Tekagi's control.
DIFFICULTY:
Tekagi's fortress is heavily protected and it will be very difficult to get into the complex.
REWARD:
The Proteus Tome - the very reason why you came to Kusari.
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Mission 09: Kyoto Chugoku
New Objective:
Meet Ozu in Space outside Kyoto Base
Fly to the Tohoku Jump Hole
Take the Jump Hole to the Tohoku System
Meet up with the fighter wing in the Tohoku System
Fly to the Blood Dragon Hideout
Rendezvous with the Attack Force at the Blood Dragon Outpost
----------------------------
Launch, meet Ozu, follow waypoint, take Jump Hole, follow waypoint to get to
Blood Dragon Hideout and meet the Attack Force. That's about it. On your way, you'll be contacted by Juni. She doesn't seem too please that you and Ozu have acted without her, taking on a suicide mission nontheless!
You'll get to know how tough the coming battle will be when you see the size of the Blood Dragon Attack Force. These are the guys that managed the to seize
Tekagi's Transport with just a few ships.
----------------------------
Mission 09: Attacking Tekagi's Fortress
New Objective:
Fly to Tekagi's Arch
Attack Tekagi's Arch
Destroy the Tekagi Patrol
Fly to Tekagi's Arch
Attack Tekagi's Arch
Destroy the Generators
Dock with the Tekagi's Base
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You'll be given the waypoint to the Arch. Head there. You'll be met by Tekagi's patrol during the journey. Destroy them (or just run and dodge while your many allies destroy them) and continue on. The Arch is amazing... and it's guards are amazing too. A helluva lots of ships and... a Battleship!!!
The arch's entrance is protected by a shield, so you must destroy the generator surrounding the shield. Oh, and the shield and generators... they're right next to the Battleship. Here's a map of it, in a view from the top. The lines that surrounds the Generator is the Shield.
_
(#) = Generator | | = Battleship |> = Your ship
[D] = Docking | | entrance |_|
_(2)_ _
/ \ | |
(1) [D] (4) | |
\_ _/ |_|
(3)
Continue Cruising on to the generator located on the opposite side from the
Battleship protected generator, marked as #1 in the map I've drawn. Stop and position your ship head to head with it, like this.
_(2)_ _
/ \ | |
|> (1) [D] (4) | |
\_ _/ |_|
(3)
Good to know that the shield that blocks the entrance to the Arch is blocking you from the Battleship too. Strafe left and right to avoid fire from enemy fighters in case they're firing at you while taking out Generator #1. From that location, you can take out #2 and #3 as well. It's #4 that will prove to be a problem, being fully guarded by the Battleship, and no matter where you head to it from, you'll be totaly open to the Battleship fire.
For #4, you need to do firing runs, flying at it in full speed, using short afterburn burst to dodge as much fire as possible, while firing at the Generator when you get in range. Once you've passed it, turn back (not straight, perform random flying to dodge fire) and do another run. By the second or third run (be sure to use Shield Batteries and Nanobots when needed), it'll be down, and you need to dock with the Arch. Well, don't click on it and press dock as the auto-flying of the ship is suicide and you will take all the hits from the
Battleship and other enemies, killing you before you can dock.
Use full speed with full afterburn usage to head as close as possible to the dock entrance (while trying your best do dodge enemy fires). Make you sure have the waypoint (the Arch) in your selection, and when you're right above the docking place, press F3 (dock), and your ship will directly (with maybe a few seconds to get to correct position) enter the dock.
A scene will be showing now. Ozu will follow you into the dock and together, you two will head deeper into the place. Ozu will show his "great plan" by shooting at everything that's in the way. Some plan, just shoot everything, even you could've thought of that.
Once you got to the room with the Proteus Tome, Ozu will set a bomb under the table, that can be detonated by a detonator he's holding. You, on the other hand will just take the Proteus Tome. Everything seems to be going fine, until you'll find out that it's a trap! Neural Gas... and the door out is locked!
Before you can blast it open, you're overtaken by the effect of the gas and go unconscious.
You'll wake up in the same room, sitting on a chair beside the table with a guard standing besides you. Ozu is still unconscious on the chair opposite the table, guarded by yet another guard. Tekagi will lecture you a bit, before slapping Ozu to wake him up. Tekagi then calls his 2 guards to leave and after some conversation, a blade came out of his sleeve and he threw it at
Ozu, with the blade stabbing through Ozu and the chair (!!!) too.
His eyes will then start glowing (What the heck?!!) and he comes after you, wanting to know about The Order and what you know when... in comes a ship!
It's piloted by Lord Hakkera, he gave you a signal to duck as he starts shooting the whole room!
It only damaged the room, and nothing else. Hakkera will opens the cargo hold of his ship and shouts for you to get in. Ozu, who is still alive, will look up at you weakly and then shift his look to his detonator, giving you a signal (what's with all these guys and their silent signals?). As you grab the Proteus Tome and run towards Hakkera's ship, the fat guy (Tekagi) got up and you can see another blade emerging from the sleeve of his other hand. As he's about to throw it at you, Ozu detonated the bomb! In a big explosion, with you having just enough time to jump into Hakkera's cargo hold, what's left of the room is a ball of flame. Ozu may have died, but he took Tekagi with him.
Ozu... sensei... sayonara.
Hakkera will get you to the docking area and tell you to get to your ship quickly. You'll do so and automatically launch out of this place. You'll get a new mission automatically.
================================================
MISSION
================================================
OBJECTIVE:
You have to return the Proteus Tome to Juni. Fly back to Kyoto Base with Lord
Hakkera as quickly as possible.
DIFFICULTY:
With Tekagi dead and a large portion of his forces defeated your escape should be less difficult than gettign in. Resistance is expected to be sporadic and light.
REWARD:
A very short and straightfoward mission where everything is carefully planned and is executed perfectly. If you can ever call something a "surgical strike", this'll be it. It's almost poetic, so you'll describe it when it's over.
Launch to space to meet Juni and Ozu. Follow the instruction and dock with the
Trade Lane heading to the Honshu Jump Gate. Once you exit, you'll see the Honshu
Jump Gate, but you're not using it, as Ozu will tell you. He'll give you a waypoint, so follow it. Along the way, you'll be met by the Blood Dragon strike team, only a few ships. They may be few in numbers, but the Blood Dragons are the best pilots in the colonies, so Ozu says. Follow the waypoint to head to the Honshu Jump Hole and take it.
After being updated about the current situation, head to the waypoint, which marks the Transport. Fly as fast as you can with your Cruise engines. Once the Transport is in sight, Ozu will give different task to everybody. Yours is to take out the Weapon Platforms. Head towards one of the Weapon Platforms while still in your Cruise mode. Disengage Cruise while you're close and fire at it with all you have. If you're using the old weapons from Bretonia, which are more powerful albeit slow, you should be able to take it out in a sweep or 2. Once the first one is done with, head to the second one with full afterburn and until you're in firing range. Once you're within range, don't hold anything back.
With the second Weapon Platform destroyed, it's time to eliminate the remaining ships. Help your allies to do it if you want. The Blood Dragons have managed to seize the Transport. Enter formation with it!
At around this time, there's like 1-2 enemies left, if you enter formation, you'll fly slowly with the Transport while your back is being shot like crazy by the enemy ship. So follow this advise, destroy them. Only after they're destroyed do you enter formation with the Transport.
The Transport will move a very long way in normal speed before engaging Cruise mode, thus the reason why you'll be shot at a lot if you don't destroy the few remaining enemy. Halfway through the journey, you'll be attacked by some enemy fighters. Send them to the scrap yard before rejoining formation with the Transport. At the Jump Hole, you'll be told to enter first, so do it.
Once in Chugoku, reenter formation with the Transport. That'll get you to
Kyoto, the legendary base of the Blood Dragons. Dock with the base when it says dock.
Bad news... neither Tekagi nor the Proteus Tome was in the Transport. It is the correct Transport, but it looks like Tekagi got one up over us. Well, Ozu says he'll try to get more information, while Juni goes to see if the Blood Dragons needs an extra pilot. She ask you to get yourself some jobs too. Anyway, the mission is finished. Mission successful, bar neither getting Tekagi nor the
Proteus Tome.
----------------------------
Mission Result: Success
You have advanced to Level 15
----------------------------
================================================
MISSION 08 ENDED
================================================
Ahh, the Blood Dragons. This time, you'll get the feel of flying for the other side. About time, I'll say. I got tired of playing Police and Navy assistant for all 3 Houses. Another level to gain before you can continue on the story.
Kyoto sells Adv. Sentinel, the best shield you can get in the SP Campaign, but it's quite expensive. Buy it if you can afford it. You should be able to if you followed my advise about having steady amount of Credits. It's worth it. Also,
Kyoto sells Advanced Thrusters, the best thrusters in the whole game, so if you might as well buy it. It's not very expensive. It'll give you a longer afterburn use time for your "expert" (should be by now) run and dodge skills.
Blood Dragons only have those fast firing but weak guns, so I am still using my old Bretonia guns. Like I said all these times, your choice of weapons is up to you.
Do some missions, and if you want, find the nearby Hokkaido jump hole. Once you enter Hokkaido, you'll see 3 wrecks in the NAV Map, quite near to where you're at, each loaded with 2 guns. If you don't know how to salvage equipments from wrecks, I'll explain. Just shoot at once, with weapon, and they'll drop whatever they hold for you to tractor in. Select them from the NAV Map and use
GoTo, it'll be easier to reach them that way.
If I'm not mistaken, getting that 3 wrecks is enough for you to gain a level.
Well, up to you if you want to salvage the wrecks, the weapons ain't that good.
Gaining some credits by doing missions is advised, though.
Anyway, when you've gained a Level, Ozu will contact you to meet him at Kyoto
Bar. Meet him there when you're ready.
/========================\
|3I: MISSION 09 |
.========================.
Hmm... an almost suicide mission. But this is the last chance for you to ever get your hands on the Proteus Tome. Accept it when you feel you're ready.
================================================
MISSION
================================================
OBJECTIVE:
Attack Tekagi's fortified base in the Tohoku System. You have to enter his base and steal the Proteus Tome out of Tekagi's control.
DIFFICULTY:
Tekagi's fortress is heavily protected and it will be very difficult to get into the complex.
REWARD:
The Proteus Tome - the very reason why you came to Kusari.
================================================
----------------------------
Mission 09: Kyoto Chugoku
New Objective:
Meet Ozu in Space outside Kyoto Base
Fly to the Tohoku Jump Hole
Take the Jump Hole to the Tohoku System
Meet up with the fighter wing in the Tohoku System
Fly to the Blood Dragon Hideout
Rendezvous with the Attack Force at the Blood Dragon Outpost
----------------------------
Launch, meet Ozu, follow waypoint, take Jump Hole, follow waypoint to get to
Blood Dragon Hideout and meet the Attack Force. That's about it. On your way, you'll be contacted by Juni. She doesn't seem too please that you and Ozu have acted without her, taking on a suicide mission nontheless!
You'll get to know how tough the coming battle will be when you see the size of the Blood Dragon Attack Force. These are the guys that managed the to seize
Tekagi's Transport with just a few ships.
----------------------------
Mission 09: Attacking Tekagi's Fortress
New Objective:
Fly to Tekagi's Arch
Attack Tekagi's Arch
Destroy the Tekagi Patrol
Fly to Tekagi's Arch
Attack Tekagi's Arch
Destroy the Generators
Dock with the Tekagi's Base
----------------------------
You'll be given the waypoint to the Arch. Head there. You'll be met by Tekagi's patrol during the journey. Destroy them (or just run and dodge while your many allies destroy them) and continue on. The Arch is amazing... and it's guards are amazing too. A helluva lots of ships and... a Battleship!!!
The arch's entrance is protected by a shield, so you must destroy the generator surrounding the shield. Oh, and the shield and generators... they're right next to the Battleship. Here's a map of it, in a view from the top. The lines that surrounds the Generator is the Shield.
_
(#) = Generator | | = Battleship |> = Your ship
[D] = Docking | | entrance |_|
_(2)_ _
/ \ | |
(1) [D] (4) | |
\_ _/ |_|
(3)
Continue Cruising on to the generator located on the opposite side from the
Battleship protected generator, marked as #1 in the map I've drawn. Stop and position your ship head to head with it, like this.
_(2)_ _
/ \ | |
|> (1) [D] (4) | |
\_ _/ |_|
(3)
Good to know that the shield that blocks the entrance to the Arch is blocking you from the Battleship too. Strafe left and right to avoid fire from enemy fighters in case they're firing at you while taking out Generator #1. From that location, you can take out #2 and #3 as well. It's #4 that will prove to be a problem, being fully guarded by the Battleship, and no matter where you head to it from, you'll be totaly open to the Battleship fire.
For #4, you need to do firing runs, flying at it in full speed, using short afterburn burst to dodge as much fire as possible, while firing at the Generator when you get in range. Once you've passed it, turn back (not straight, perform random flying to dodge fire) and do another run. By the second or third run (be sure to use Shield Batteries and Nanobots when needed), it'll be down, and you need to dock with the Arch. Well, don't click on it and press dock as the auto-flying of the ship is suicide and you will take all the hits from the
Battleship and other enemies, killing you before you can dock.
Use full speed with full afterburn usage to head as close as possible to the dock entrance (while trying your best do dodge enemy fires). Make you sure have the waypoint (the Arch) in your selection, and when you're right above the docking place, press F3 (dock), and your ship will directly (with maybe a few seconds to get to correct position) enter the dock.
A scene will be showing now. Ozu will follow you into the dock and together, you two will head deeper into the place. Ozu will show his "great plan" by shooting at everything that's in the way. Some plan, just shoot everything, even you could've thought of that.
Once you got to the room with the Proteus Tome, Ozu will set a bomb under the table, that can be detonated by a detonator he's holding. You, on the other hand will just take the Proteus Tome. Everything seems to be going fine, until you'll find out that it's a trap! Neural Gas... and the door out is locked!
Before you can blast it open, you're overtaken by the effect of the gas and go unconscious.
You'll wake up in the same room, sitting on a chair beside the table with a guard standing besides you. Ozu is still unconscious on the chair opposite the table, guarded by yet another guard. Tekagi will lecture you a bit, before slapping Ozu to wake him up. Tekagi then calls his 2 guards to leave and after some conversation, a blade came out of his sleeve and he threw it at
Ozu, with the blade stabbing through Ozu and the chair (!!!) too.
His eyes will then start glowing (What the heck?!!) and he comes after you, wanting to know about The Order and what you know when... in comes a ship!
It's piloted by Lord Hakkera, he gave you a signal to duck as he starts shooting the whole room!
It only damaged the room, and nothing else. Hakkera will opens the cargo hold of his ship and shouts for you to get in. Ozu, who is still alive, will look up at you weakly and then shift his look to his detonator, giving you a signal (what's with all these guys and their silent signals?). As you grab the Proteus Tome and run towards Hakkera's ship, the fat guy (Tekagi) got up and you can see another blade emerging from the sleeve of his other hand. As he's about to throw it at you, Ozu detonated the bomb! In a big explosion, with you having just enough time to jump into Hakkera's cargo hold, what's left of the room is a ball of flame. Ozu may have died, but he took Tekagi with him.
Ozu... sensei... sayonara.
Hakkera will get you to the docking area and tell you to get to your ship quickly. You'll do so and automatically launch out of this place. You'll get a new mission automatically.
================================================
MISSION
================================================
OBJECTIVE:
You have to return the Proteus Tome to Juni. Fly back to Kyoto Base with Lord
Hakkera as quickly as possible.
DIFFICULTY:
With Tekagi dead and a large portion of his forces defeated your escape should be less difficult than gettign in. Resistance is expected to be sporadic and light.
REWARD:
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