The Number of the Beast

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ACT 2 MISSION 1

Description: Stop a full-scale riot outside Tau Sigma Station.

Background

With the Altair jump node destabilizing by the Nyarlathotep's presence, and access to Tau Sigma Station temporarily cut off, a union strike has taken place after three weeks of supply shortages, and Alpha Wing finds itself knee-deep in the mess...

Walkthrough

• Available ships: Myrmidon, Hercules Mark II, Perseus.
• Available primaries: HL-7, SDG, Prometheus R, Prometheus S, Maxim.
• Available secondaries: Rockeye, Tempest, Harpoon, Hornet, Tornado.

You're going to be doing some close-quarters interception work, for this reason, a recommended loadout is a GTF Perseus with a Prometheus S, Tempests and Tornadoes.

You'll start in front of a jump node, alongside the GTCv Escher, in front of a really mad crowd (all designated neutral).

Listen to the three minutes of dialogue, then the Nyaralathotep will break in. A Fenris crew will panic, so take out its forward beam turret. Then a full-scale riot will happen. Take out any ships marked hostile (if the wing's named after a color, kill them).

Then a bunch of GTB Artemis bombers will jump in, they'll go after the Sai. Kill them, and break their warheads while you're at it. You may also have deal with some Hercules fighters assaulting the Sai (consider their Hornet missiles another threat as well).

After all the hell is over, land at Tau Sigma Station.

Total number of forces

Forces involved
Belligerents
GTVA	Civilians/Non-affiliates	Shivans
Ships
1 GTCv Deimos Escher 1 GTI Arcadia Tau Sigma Station 1 GTI Ganymede Docking Ring Alpha 1 GTFr Triton Heavy Cargo Transport 1 GTFF Saphah Cypher	3 GTC Fenris Lonewolf (#) Cassius Clement 1 GVC Mentu Sai (#) 1 GTC Aeolus Nero (^) 4 GTFr Triton Peterbilt Triton IX Mack Daimler 3 GTG Zephyrus Brutus (^) Talish Pneuma 4 GTFr Poseidon Cargo Movers: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta	1 SD Lucifer Nyarlathotep
Strikecraft
4 GTF Hercules Mark II (*) Alpha (4)	4 GTF Loki Red (4) (^) 4 GTF Perseus Tachyon (4) 4 GTF Myrmidon Tango (4) (^) 8 GTF Hercules Blue (4) (x2) (^) 8 GTB Artemis Gold (4) (x2) (^)
Casualties
	1 GTC Aeolus Nero 1 GTC Fenris Clement 2 GTFr Poseidon Cargo Movers: Beta, Delta 4 GTF Loki Red (4) 8 GTF Hercules Blue (4) (x2) 8 GTB Artemis Gold (4) (x2)

(*): Player-selected craft.

(#): Hijacked (originally GTVA-affiliated property).

(^): Declared Hostile