Newcomer / Intro Disable The Megaship Turrets

[hawknerd]

Need some help with this. Guides seem to be showing a different mission to the one I got.

Got to gordon class bulk cargo ship and was asked to locate and disable the turret power grid.

Problem is that there were no turrets and the ship had been attacked by thargoids.
There were 3 power capacitors which I could bump and explode (shooting incurred a bounty).
There was a cargo hold
There was a hull breach
There was a log to scan
There was a lot of cargo floating around

But no turrets to target.
On approaching the ship I could not scan the entire ship.

After a while thargoids turned up - first scouts and later an interceptor.

Any help appreciated as I am on a timer.

 

[hawknerd]

I am not seeing any help for this particular type of disable megaship turret. They all talk about taregtting the ship from a distance and then targettin turrets and then subtargetting the power generator. I have none of this and the ship was obviously attacked by thargoid ships as well and they come back after a while.

Help please!

 

[Ashnak]

Only thing I can remember about this for EDH: go to a different Megaship. It once was that you could disable any Megaship's turret(s), it didn't have to be the one they send you to.

Of course - even if this still works, it leaves you with the problem of finding another megaship.

Oh, and btw. - that Megaship you're at isn't the Alexandria by any chance? A few people would like to know where she ended up...

Alexandria (megaship with tons of Guardian artifacts) has gone missing

Where they were: HIP 16538 Where they were going to jump to: HIP 30944 Related Galnet News Article: Aegis Megaship Prepares to Escape Thargoids https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/60b60819601915167f11e893

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[hawknerd]

gordon class bulk cargo ship

Sod -2903.
So no, not the Alexandria I believe.
It doesnt say its a megaship just a cargo ship. But thats the one it wants me to go to.

 

[hawknerd]

Update:
I tried to go to another mega ship in the same system and although I was able to destroy a power plant for a turret as required it did not complete the mission and a bit afterwards the mission expired.

So I got another mission and this time there was a megaship with turrets at the right place and name and I was able to destroy 5 turret power plants and the mission completed.

I dont know why the first mission didnt have turrets but it must be because the thargoids destroyed them. So the misson could not be completed.