Antietam

The following information has not been confirmed by Volition and is therefore not canon for the FreeSpace universe.

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Chanticleer SOC Loop B
Location: Delta Serpentis Jump Node

Background

Ned Mozingo's SOC mission has gone very wrong. It's about to get worse.

Walkthrough

This is a red alert mission, with your health and ammunition the same as at the end of A Dish Best Served Cold. You'll still keep the Pegasus.

You'll start at the edge of a fleet battle, with Federal UEB Durga bombers launching at the Vengeance. You're the closest ships, so you're on intercept. The Durgas are slow and you're stealthy, so get right up in their faces and blast them. Once you've destroyed the bombers, Command tells you to upload the virus meant for the UEX Maitreya to the UESc Shen Kuo-class science ship Avicenna at the rear of the formation to get rid of the beam jamming. Go straight down the middle of the UEF warship formation. Keep the Avicenna targeted and stay within 500 meters to upload the virus. If you're fast, you should be able to upload the virus before the escort fighters can react. Watch the fireworks as the Avicenna gets blasted into kingdom come, and then the Alliance battlegroup turns its guns on the frigate Ridwan. The battle has turned in your favor, big-time.

Command then detects a big subspace transit incoming, and tells you to move to intercept positions. There's only one problem: it's the unarmed, barely functional hulk of the GTD Washington, being used to draw you off. Shortly after, the Federation warps in an entire squadron of UEB Vajradhara heavy bombers and UEF Uriel gunships. They blindside the Vengeance and take it down. The battlegroup retreats to Artemis Station in disarray. Jump out.

Notes

• If you're too slow and the UEF destroys the Vengeance before you can knock out the Avicenna, the UEF will sortie a massive bomber wave at the Phoenicia. Once that happens, there's nothing you can do.
• The UED Washington is the same hulk that was seen in Mission 3.
• The mission is named after the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day of the American Civil War.