Their Finest Hour

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ACT 3, MISSION 8

Fighter squadron: 70th Blue Lions

Description: The title says it all. Mind that it says "they" (Shivans) not "our" (Terrans)


Background

The 70th Blue Lions are, along with the GTVA Colossus and a small contingent of warships, to create a diversion while the Meson bomb laden Bastion eliminates the Capella - Epsilon Pegasi jump node.

Walkthrough

This mission was planned big and executed small, there is evidence that the Colossus had a complicated set of waypoints, that are never executed. Also, although all allied ships are beam freed, they are beam freed before they jump in... so they never fire their beams. You basically need to take an Ares with Trebs and a quad bank of Maxims and dedicate yourself to killing everything within Treb range, especially cruisers. Hang out near the GVCv Sobek to prevent yourself from getting wasted by interceptors.

Near the middle, a SD Ravana would jump in to attack the Colossus. The Colossus would destroy it, but have a moderate damage. Once the Ravana had been destroyed, a (Oh dear, oh dear. Why now?)a SJ Sathanas jumps in. Shock! The Colossus struggles to fight the Juggernaut, but bearing with the luck they have, not so smart. At the end, the captain of the Colossus vouched to stand their ground, and fought to death. Along with its 30,000+ crew, they said "Lets just hope the plan works." Et voila! 30,000+ crew killed in a few minutes, as well as at least more than a decade worth of development and construction.

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