Collateral Damage

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MISSION 02
ACT 1, MISSION 02

Fighter squadron: 170th Fighting Navajas

Description: Third Fleet's Exodus continues. Two ships are out of communication, and the Navajas are sent to investigate.

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Background

After a twenty-minute break following their last mission, Alpha wing of the Navajas receives a situation report on the evacuation of Third Fleet and new orders from Captain Tefler.

Flight operations to cover Third Fleet's remaining assets are in full swing and have achieved limited success. While two additional cruisers have been recovered, the Alliance managed to destroy six haulers. Beta wing of the Navajas is in the midst of launching to cover evacuation operations at Jovian storm platforms.

Alpha wing is now deployed to one of a number of likely misjump sites to locate two missing frigates, the Karuna-class Akula and the Narayana-class Ranvir. These two ships are part of a flotilla that crash-jumped from Europa orbit while under heavy fire. Their course was vectored by reconnaissance, but their eventual exit point is not known. Alpha wing's job is to sweep the area where they are most likely to end up in and find them before the Alliance does so.

Sensors have also detected a pack of Allied corvettes sweeping the area as well. The evacuation effort means that the Solaris's assets are severely limited for this sortie. Although the 12th Shuduhune are on standby to intercept Allied warship targets, they will not be deployed except under the most dire circumstances.

Walkthrough

You can only pilot the UEF Uhlan in this mission. As with the previous mission, the default loadout should suffice, but feel free to change your loadout as you see it.

This mission begins with Brie yelling an order to turn hard left and hit afterburners as you jump right into the flak and AAA range of the Cho, an Aeolus-class cruiser. As you recover, you see the two missing frigates on your escort list and radar being besieged by three Deimos-class corvettes. The Ranvir is able to hold off the Idomeneus on its own, but because of the corvette, it is unable to assist the less powerful Akula, which is under attack from the Cardinal and Regensburg. Brie attempts to call the Solaris for reinforcements, but he realises that there was massive jamming in place, preventing anyone from requesting outside help. The Ranvir will chase the Idomeneus off eventually, and the Cho will follow suit not too long after its departure if it is still alive. The departure of both ships causes the jamming to cease, and The Ranvir then bears down on the two corvettes attacking the Akula, chasing both away. As the battlefield falls silent, the jamming clears, and the Ranvir and Akula finally make contact with Second Fleet HQ. HQ plots an exit path for both ships, as they are still capable of making a jump to subspace under their own power if given enough time to recharge their jump drives. The two frigates follow HQ's instructions, with the Akula, several thousand klicks ahead of the Ranvir, taking point. You are much closer to the Ranvir, however, and Brie gives orders to form up on the Narayana.

U/C

Notes

• The Ranvir uses the Hydra Torpedo in this mission. This was originally necessary because the Apocalypse (The standard capital ship missile of the UEF) didn't have the turn radius to reliably engage the Corvette.

In-Universe, the Hydra is a swarm weapon that is designed to penetrate thick point defense by saturating the enemy with missiles, but at the cost of lower overall damage output. The intent here is to show that the Ranvir has run out of Apocalypse missiles, and has to resort to secondary loadouts.

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