Escalation

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Solaris - Mission 8: Escalation

System: Morik

Description: Hope dies as the Longview manages a hard-fought victory. An Alban Naval Intelligence agent makes contact.

Created: September 24th, 2018

Released: June 9th, 2019


Background

Alban Naval Intelligence is a powerful branch of His Majesty's Navy, though much of their operations carry a shroud of secrecy. Ross is contacted by "Red Abbey", an ANI agent in Morik who has been monitoring the situation. ANI's primary goal in Federation space was to track a Federation weapons project, code-named Solaris. It is believed that the weapon used in Morik was an offshoot of Federation data, stolen by Admiral Romanowska from a Federation base in Mira. Red Abbey also shares intel on the entire Federation defensive line, implying that Morik wasn't the only system that's fallen to the Combine. Ross is recruited to help bring the data cache to ANI.

Lancaster's hopes of reinforcements crumble with the arrival of the FNS Osiris, Rear Admiral Mirelle Colvin's fleet carrier. Colvin was the commander of a powerful task group sent to garrison the border systems of Shen Kuo and Bast. If she had arrived alone, then it is likely the task group was lost. The Osiris is being pursued by the dreadnought CS Vindicator, and Romanowska has also deployed the battlecruiser Veritas and cruiser Insolent to trap the carrier. Lancaster gives the order for Longview to move out and assist.

Ross and McKearney are assigned Phantom advanced fighters, equipped with a similar cloaking system used on Combine stealth fighters. They are equipped with a bank of heavy cannons, making them ideal for setting up an ambush on capital ship turrets. However, they aren't as nimble as the Hunters and rely more heavily on their cloaks to escape dogfights.

Walkthrough

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Notable ships present

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Outcome

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Notes

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