Titan poking for the Unengineered

Tifu

Tifu
If you were planning to do your run this Wednesday, please reconsider. Current projections show Cocijo's last heart lasting till Wednesday noon at the most - and that timeline keeps shortening.

Good luck commanders o7

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source: https://dcoh.watch/system/10477373803
 

mtfatboy3006

M
Tifu said:
If you were planning to do your run this Wednesday, please reconsider. Current projections show Cocijo's last heart lasting till Wednesday noon at the most - and that timeline keeps shortening.

Good luck commanders o7

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source: https://dcoh.watch/system/10477373803
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Progress will slow down now that the weekend is over, but people should certainly get their hits in as quickly as they can! It's pretty tight whether Cocijo will fall in time. We need to keep the pressure on.
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
I was there when Titan Cocijo fell!

It's over. It's done!

I was strafing the core with enhanced AX missiles, volley after volley, when the core finally exploded, the world was fire and light ...and then the core went dark! Giant fires and explosions started ripping out of the titan surface around me. I was tempted to linger, to savor the view, but soon enough the blue lights of the torus attack appeared. Even while dying(?) the defense mechanism had triggered, so I had to get out. Once at a safe distance, I turned around and watched the destruction unfold.

Then I exited the maelstrom and returned to station: there are still people in that titan, it's time to refit my ship for more extraction rescue operations!
 
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Archvillain

Archvillain
Don't forget there is now only a short window (24 hours) to rescue people trapped inside the titan.

Extraction might be a little harder than bombing runs, so I recommend brushing up on a guide to it.

The summary is that you need Surface Extraction Missiles (obtained in the Mining equipment section of outfitting), and a Pulse Wave Xeno Scanner, which is a utility, so you likely have to sacrifice a heat sink or caustic sink to fit it in, which increases the difficulty a little.

You use the scanner to find the humans. It finds several features, but the ones you're looking for are called... crap I forget, it's something that means "underground storage chamber"
Select the chamber, fire an extraction missile, but don't release the fire button: extraction missiles need to drill and they stop when you release the button. Look at the scanner to the lower left for a depth chart, when the missile passes through the blue band, release the button. If you release within the blue band, the extraction will succeed, releasing several pods (each containing a person).
Then you use collector limpets to scoop as many as you can before a ton of angry thargoids arrive.
Now that Cocijo is in meltdown, maybe the angry thargoid response doesn't happen?

Note, you'll also likely be interdicted as you leave the system, and they'll attempt to hatch-break and retrieve the pods. So have ECM or point defense, or a fast ship.
Pods can be dropped off at Search and Rescue at a station or rescue ship.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
I just got back from the dead titan. Hyperdictions are back, BTW. Boy, was that intense. The dead titan kept spewing fire, gas, etc. Every five seconds, the maw would disgorge an interceptor. The xeno scanner worked on the interceptors, but not on the titan, no matter how close I got. Note: while the pulse has gone, the cloud and the mines are still active. The interceptors will EMP you if annoyed. For amusement, I used the sub-surface displacement missiles on an interceptor. Result- EMP.

I'll leave it to the pro's, now.
 

Tifu

Tifu
Ralph Vargr said:
I just got back from the dead titan. Hyperdictions are back, BTW. Boy, was that intense. The dead titan kept spewing fire, gas, etc. Every five seconds, the maw would disgorge an interceptor.
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And to think that I was considering heading back to Sol to do some rescue missions, recovering people from Cocijo's carcass before it implodes. But that kind of environment is too exhausting for me, specially after the past few days.

Think I'll head back to my usual Powerplay stuff, the Sol neighborhood is near enough anyway to jump back to if Fdev decides to pull a plot twist after all this.
 

Valorin

Valorin
It is over.
As I am writing this the Titan Cocijo is melting down.

When Sol, cradle of mankind, faced the ultimate doom of an alien invasion, many rushed to its defence. Many brave souls provided passage for the desperate and lost, facing the dangers of Thargoid hyperdiction and the horrors of abduction.
Many Commanders went to war in ships hardened for combat and engineered for Thargoid destruction.

And there were the inexperienced, the unengineered and young pilots. Some who never faced mortal combat, or a Thargoid before. They came in machines fragile and barely able to flee from the regular pirate.
And still these brave souls made the jump to Sol. They faced hyperdiction and the dread of Thargoid caustic attacks and death.

Some saved as many as possible, stowed away in their cabins, others made their way to an even more dreadful trial by fire: The Titan Run.

Successful or not, these brave pilots, running the gauntlet of the caustic field, approaching the ultimate alien horror under threat of detection and certain death, determined to strike the heart of the groaning beast threatening the cradle of mankind, they are the true Heroes of Sol.

Hail to the inexperienced and unengineered Titan Slayers of Sol!
 

FrogsFriend

FrogsFriend
Valorin said:
It is over.
As I am writing this the Titan Cocijo is melting down.

When Sol, cradle of mankind, faced the ultimate doom of an alien invasion, many rushed to its defence. Many brave souls provided passage for the desperate and lost, facing the dangers of Thargoid hyperdiction and the horrors of abduction.
Many Commanders went to war in ships hardened for combat and engineered for Thargoid destruction.

And there were the inexperienced, the unengineered and young pilots. Some who never faced mortal combat, or a Thargoid before. They came in machines fragile and barely able to flee from the regular pirate.
And still these brave souls made the jump to Sol. They faced hyperdiction and the dread of Thargoid caustic attacks and death.

Some saved as many as possible, stowed away in their cabins, others made their way to an even more dreadful trial by fire: The Titan Run.

Successful or not, these brave pilots, running the gauntlet of the caustic field, approaching the ultimate alien horror under threat of detection and certain death, determined to strike the heart of the groaning beast threatening the cradle of mankind, they are the true Heroes of Sol.

Hail to the inexperienced and unengineered Titan Slayers of Sol!
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And also remember the brave crews of the Rescue Megaships who gave their lives jumping into the cauldron without regard for their own safety...

06 DEC 3310
Almost all rescue megaships deployed to systems near Sol have been destroyed shortly after arrival, Aegis has confirmed.

Eight of the eleven active rescue megaships were ordered to systems close to Sol to help with the expected high flow of refugees and civilian casualties following Titan Cocijo’s arrival. But distress calls were sounded within minutes of arrival with the few recovered survivors claiming the Thargoids had arrived in alarming numbers at the precise arrival location.

The following rescue megaships have been lost:
  • Federal Haven in Sol
  • Rescue Ship Bertschinger in Sol
  • Rescue Ship Foerster in Sol
  • Rescue Ship Kisseih in Wolf 359
  • Rescue Ship Cavell in Alpha Centauri
  • Rescue Ship Yoshida in Barnard's Star
  • Rescue Ship Seacole in Wise 1506+7027

 

mtfatboy3006

M
FrogsFriend said:
And also remember the brave crews of the Rescue Megaships who gave their lives jumping into the cauldron without regard for their own safety...

06 DEC 3310
Almost all rescue megaships deployed to systems near Sol have been destroyed shortly after arrival, Aegis has confirmed.

Eight of the eleven active rescue megaships were ordered to systems close to Sol to help with the expected high flow of refugees and civilian casualties following Titan Cocijo’s arrival. But distress calls were sounded within minutes of arrival with the few recovered survivors claiming the Thargoids had arrived in alarming numbers at the precise arrival location.

The following rescue megaships have been lost:
  • Federal Haven in Sol
  • Rescue Ship Bertschinger in Sol
  • Rescue Ship Foerster in Sol
  • Rescue Ship Kisseih in Wolf 359
  • Rescue Ship Cavell in Alpha Centauri
  • Rescue Ship Yoshida in Barnard's Star
  • Rescue Ship Seacole in Wise 1506+7027
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Seven titans down, seven rescue ships destroyed. Maybe something more is coming.
 

Malvenue

Malvenue
Archvillain said:
Don't forget there is now only a short window (24 hours) to rescue people trapped inside the titan.

Extraction might be a little harder than bombing runs, so I recommend brushing up on a guide to it.

The summary is that you need Surface Extraction Missiles (obtained in the Mining equipment section of outfitting), and a Pulse Wave Xeno Scanner, which is a utility, so you likely have to sacrifice a heat sink or caustic sink to fit it in, which increases the difficulty a little.

You use the scanner to find the humans. It finds several features, but the ones you're looking for are called... crap I forget, it's something that means "underground storage chamber"
Select the chamber, fire an extraction missile, but don't release the fire button: extraction missiles need to drill and they stop when you release the button. Look at the scanner to the lower left for a depth chart, when the missile passes through the blue band, release the button. If you release within the blue band, the extraction will succeed, releasing several pods (each containing a person).
Then you use collector limpets to scoop as many as you can before a ton of angry thargoids arrive.
Now that Cocijo is in meltdown, maybe the angry thargoid response doesn't happen?

Note, you'll also likely be interdicted as you leave the system, and they'll attempt to hatch-break and retrieve the pods. So have ECM or point defense, or a fast ship.
Pods can be dropped off at Search and Rescue at a station or rescue ship.
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I got the sub-surface displacement missles with a launcher (turret), found the chambers with the scanner, targeted them and when I fired it just looked like a shot gun. My UI didn't change at all. I held down the trigger and it just never happened. What did I do wrong?
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
ok rather than derail other threads as i have been doing i will post here as it seems almost releveent.

with my mostly unengineered ship i have been gathering materials for unlocks. maybe not all are relevant now but i want to be able to say i did it.

i have caustic shards
i found 1 caustic crystal
i have the corrosive mechanisms and propulsion systems

i got a bunch of titan tissue samples (thanks to being advised you have to use the left panel to select sub system) before i realised i need caustic tissue samples not titan ones.

i then got blown up trying to scan the caustic generators which i believe the samples come from.

the thing i dont get is

i put my xeno scanner in normal mode (not pulse) but i could not target the generator to begin a scan. in a vid i watched it seemed easy!. i was in silent running, and i got close to touching distance. then the thing blows up.

on ONE occaison the target option showed up and as soon as i targetted it i was able to begin a xeno scan... however half way through it blew up again. that was the one time i could target it.

am i doing summat wrong or was it bugged?
i am done now, parked out side the cloud incase i get up tomorrow to fly in to see the explosion... (6:40UTC i believe?)

thanks for any advice....
 

Kayvan

Kayvan
That was really easy money: with my Alt I did a single run at the Titan, one single pass at the Core, and got 120M for it.

However, just in the couple of weeks before that, I made about 1.2Bn with the same Alt in the T-war, all in a low-engineered Vulture with 2 AX Multicannons, and mostly flying solo bc nobody plays Horizons anymore. Of my total 2Bn assets on this CMDR, about 1.5Bn come from combat bonds for busting 'goids.
 
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