Assassinate Terrorist Mission
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o7 Brrokk!
Those missions are terribly fun, but can also be awfully buggy, so be careful when you take them.
Basically, that mission is a combination of a 'Planetary Scan' mission and an 'Assassinate Pirate' mission.
You are given a ground target, and a system to look.
Step 1: Fly to that system and scan the NAV beacon. That will give you the body the building is on.
Step 2: Fly to that body, and when you're close enough the building will appear on your nav panel. (All mission objects show blue on the Nav page.)
Step 3: Enter orbit, fly down to the surface and locate the building. Your HUD will lead you on a merry chase; changing positions several times before the actual building spawns.
Step 4: Locate the building's BEACON. I'm kind of far away from one so I can't take a pic, but it's a vertical cylinder on a rectangular base about 10m tall somewhere around the buildings. It will not be indicated on your radar.
Step 5a: If your ship is small enough (Up to about a Krait) you can fly up close to the beacon, until your nose is virtually touching the beacon. Only then will you get the target bracket. Scan it with your Data Link Scanner. You will get a trespass warning and skimmers will deploy. If your ship is small and un-irona**ed, they can shred you pretty quick so keep all 4 pips in SYS and work FAST.
Step 5b: If your ship is too large, deploy your SRV. Now - there's a couple of ways to do this; both legitimate. The first is to fly your ship into the trespass zone and schmack the skimmers with your main weapons. The other is to land a short distance away and take 'em out with the SRV's repeaters. Either way, it's a fairly entertaining fight. Warning - the building may have static defences too and they are some pretty serious hardware. Once the skimmers are toast approach the beacon and scan it with your Data Link Scanner. (Don't forget to collect the skimmer mats!)
Step 6: You'll have a bounty now; so look for the closest Interstellar Factor and pay them off. When you engage the terrorist, if you have 'Report Crimes Against Me' on, cop ships will show up during the fight. If you have a Wanted tag, they'll target YOU as well. You don't want that.
Step 7: Fly to the system the scan tells you the terrorist is at. Repeat the process: scan the NAV beacon, if it gives you the info fly to the point it gives you. If not, fly from planet to planet until you find the terrorist. Caution - be READY. There's a good chance he or his cronies will jump you while you're searching, so have weps ready and Combat mode set.
Find the bad guy...and give it to him, Commander!
Cheers!
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Step 5a): remember to deploy hardpoints if you want to use the datalink scanner.
Inbetween steps: do the datalink scan in a small fast ship, then switch to your combat ship once you got the data. This way, your combat ship doesn't become wanted and (in your case) you don't need to find an IF with a large landing pad.
Inbetween steps: do the datalink scan in a small fast ship, then switch to your combat ship once you got the data. This way, your combat ship doesn't become wanted and (in your case) you don't need to find an IF with a large landing pad.
Whew, that was intense! Luckilyt for me the base was "lawless", so I didn't become Wanted. There were defence turrets and Goliaths and I found I was able to destroy all these from the ship. However, I only found out they respawn by losing the first SRV! Got the scan in the end, and then it led to a mission signal source contining the target. I hadn't realised that such multi-stage missions existed.
One wrinkle I found: it's sometimes awkward to find the mission signal source even when the message says it's been detected, but in the FSS it's coloured orange.
Thanks for the advice everyone.
One wrinkle I found: it's sometimes awkward to find the mission signal source even when the message says it's been detected, but in the FSS it's coloured orange.
Thanks for the advice everyone.
You can say that again. Had fun using the SRV to access the Data to get the Mission update, but when I went to the place the transaction update pointed to, I spent 3 hours searching for the terrorist. Did a Discovery scan. Did a Nav Beacon scan. Checked out all the Unidentified Signal. Finally, flew between stations numerous times to no avail. 3 hours wasted... Abandoned the mission. No more of these buggy missions for me.