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Delta Serpentis : The Missions
Mission 01 - Eve of Destruction -
Your first mission is simple. You are assigned to stand the third watch. You must protect the GTC Orff until help arrives. Alpha 2 will be piloted by Lieutenant Harrison. You will most likely be attacked by Vasudans. Engage and destroy them. Keep the area secure until Delta Wing arrives. At this point, you stand relieved of your watch.
Mission 02 - The Field of Battle -
This mission takes place in an asteroid belt in the Betelgeuse System. There are 12 fighters present in the area. This is a seek and destroy mission. In addition to the 12 fighters, you may encounter the Vasudan Ace. It is up to you whether or not to engage the ace.
Mission 03 - Small, Deadly Space -
Your objective is to conduct a strike on a Vasudan cargo depot. GTA Reconnaissance has determined the presence of Vasudan fighters in the area. There are also three freighters in this area. You must destroy all hostiles in this area without destroying any cargo.
Mission 04 - Avenging Angels -
The design plan for the Avenger Cannon has been stolen by Lt. McCarthy. McCarthy has defected to the Vasudan cause and has full intention to sell the plans to the Vasudans. You are assigned to destroy any Terran renegades, as well as disable the Omega Transport. Once you have succeeded in disabling the Omega, the GTT Comet will be sent to dock with Omega. It is critical that you provide cover for the GTT Comet. Rid the area of any hostiles which remain and return to base.
Mission 05 - Out of the Night, Into the Fire -
The Antares System is nearly secure. The GTSC Plato will be transporting the Avenger plans to the Ribos System. GTA Intelligence has determined a minimal number of Vasudan craft in the Antares system. The Plato is equipped with a Hermes Escape Pod, should something go wrong. You will be attacked by four Unknown-Class fighters in this mission. Do not waste time trying to target them. Hold close to the Hermes Escape Pod until it reaches the Ribos Jump Node.
Mission 06 - Paving the Way -
Due to the deficit of time, the Galatea must travel through an asteroid field to the Beta-Cygni Subspace Node. Any asteroids that are determined to be on collision course with the GTD Galatea will be displayed in white brackets on your HUD. You cannot allow the Galatea to go down. There will be one wing of Shivan Bombers in the asteroid field. It is unlikely that you will take out a Shivan fighter, but you must ward off their attacks.
Mission 07 - Pandora's Box -
This will be your first spec ops mission. You will be entering the Ikeya System, where you will inspect a cargo depot, which is suspected to be of Shivan origin. This depot is a trap. The Shivans will destroy most of the cargo. Scan what cargo remains and depart.
Mission 08 - The Hammer and the Anvil -
Using the sensor array technology discovered in the last mission, the GTA has been able to creat four working shield prototypes. However, at 1400 hours, the convoy carrying the first of the shield prototypes was destroyed by the Shivans. This convoy was only a decoy. The three remaining prototypes will by escorted to the Beta Cygni Sector by Alpha and Beta Wings. The presence of Vasudan radicals has been confirmed in this sector. These radicals, known as the Hammer of Light, did not agree to the cease-fire between Terra and Vasuda. They are to be treated as hostile and destroyed.
Mission 09 - The Darkness and the Light -
This Mission takes place in the Beta Cygni System, which is the site of an HOL cargo depot. Your goal is to disable the Aten-Class cruiser Ramses. Use the Disruptor to be sure that the Ramses is not destroyed. Upon disabling the Ramses, you are required to destroy all HOL cargo in the immediate vicinity. When the SC Cain-Class cruiser Taranis arrives, you are to refrain from attacking it.
Mission 10 - First Strike -
Be sure to take the time to configure your weapons loadout before you commit to this mission. You will need to arm yourself with the new Stiletto Bomb. When you arrive in the Ikeya Sector, you are to engage, but not destroy, the Taranis. Use Stiletto Bombs to disable it. After the Taranis is disabled, Omega Transports will dock with it, whereupon you will proceed to the Ribos System.
Mission 11 - The Aftermath -
This mission starts your day off with bad news. At 0300 hours this morning (0300 hours in the simulation. You shouldn' t be on your PC at 0300 hours.) the Shivans made a raid on Tombaugh Station. The surviving scientists are to be escorted from Tombaugh to the PVD Pinnacle.
Mission 12 - The Big Bang -
Your goal here is to evacuate the scientists from the GTSC Asimov. The scientists are working on Project Tsunami, which involves antimatter and hyperreactive substances. Should the Asimov reach critical integrity, immediately fly until you are at least 5 km from the Asimov.
Mission 13 - La Ruota Della Fortuna -
Your only objective here is to destroy the HOL outpost in the Antares System.
Mission 14 - Where Eagles Dare -
You are to clear the entire area of all hostiles. Do not allow any of the transports to reach their waypoints. When the area is secure, GTA freighters will recover any remaining cargo.
Missions 15 - Tenderizer -
You are to escort the GTD Galatea to the Beta Aquilae Sector. You need to inspect at least one sentry gun. Destroy 5 of the 6, the inspect the last one. After it is inspected, the trap is sprung, whereupon you may procees to destroy the last sentry gun. The Galatea must be protected. Destroy any kamikaze fighters on direct-impact course for the Galatea, especially the Mauler.
Mission 16 - Shell Game -
This mission is another trap. The GTA has ordered 4 transports to dock with Shivan Cargo. Everything is going extremely well until the GTT Dobbs docks with a Shivan cargo container and is blown away. Inspect the next cargo container. Your scan in indeterminate, and the GTT Stern proceeds to dock. The Stern is also destroyed.
Mission 17 - Enter the Dragon -
You will attempt to capture a Dragon-Class fighter in this mission. Disable and disarm, but not destroy the Dragon. After the SF Dragon is disabled and disarmed, the Charon will dock with it.
Mission 18 - Playing Judas -
You will be using the Dragon in this mission. Stay at least 1000 m from all sentry guns and hostile fighters. If you are caught, you will have to do battle with Shivans. After a while, the Shivan destroyer, Lucifer, will arrive. Do not attempt to destroy it, you cannot at this point. You need to scan the Lucifer. Once it is scanned, ignore the order to enter the docking-bay. As soon as your warp-drives are functional, return to base.
Mission 19 - Evangelion -
In this mission, you will be ordered to destroy the SD Eva. You will need 15 to 25 Tsunami Bombs, so you will most likely have to rearm. Whenever you are out of missiles, order your wingmates to continue attacking the Eva.
Mission 20 - Doomsday -
This is one mission where you cannot avert your trouble. You have no choice but to fail here. The Lucifer will destroy the GTD Galatea. You must protect the Hermes Escape Pods.
Mission 21 - Exodus -
You are required to escort several wings of allied freighters and transports in this mission. Destroy Indra and Kali first, as they consist of Shaitan-Class Bombers. Try to save as many allied ships as possible.
Mission 22 - Last Hope -
The PVD Hope is under fire in the Beta Aquilae Sector. The mission begins with the Hope warping in at only 36% integrity. Indra, Asura, Bheema, and Kali wings will be your primary targets, as they all consist of bombers. The fighters can be left alone for a while until you destroy the bombers. If you destroy all the bombers, you may want to take out a fighter or two before the next wave of bombers arrives. Next, you will be engaged by not one, but two, Cain-Class Cruisers. As long as the Mecross was not destroyed in the previous mission, its crew will destroy the second cruiser.
Mission 23 - A Failure to Communicate -
This mission is, well, a failure. It your second "fixed" mission. You cannot protect the Aquilae Installation, but you can protect those escape pods. This mission is nearly impossible if you allowed the PVD Hope to be destroyed in the previous mission. If you protected the Hope, you will have more allies in this mission.
Mission 24 - Reaching the Zenith -
Your main objective here is to destroy the Zenith. Use missiles a Banshee Lasers in addition to assigning all fighters to destroy the Zenith. Begin by destroying the Zenith's communication subsystem. Then proceed to destroy it completely.
Mission 25 - Running the Gauntlet -
This mission is highly possible, even with only 13 allies and no Vasudan allies, against a team of 127 Shivan craft. You should destroy any fighters or bombers that you can. There should be no problem saving both of your Omega Transports.
Mission 26 - Black Omega -
You are up against the Hammer of Light in this mission. You must destroy the PVD Anvil as well as protect at least one of the Omega Transports carrying the xenolinguists from Altair 4. The mission is accomplished when the Anvil is destroyed and one, or two, Omega Transports have warped out.
Mission 27 - Clash of the Titans -
As in all escort missions, destroying hostile bombers takes priority over hostile fighters. The GTD Bastion must be protected. After destroying Asura, take out the remaining fighters and head to the Delta Serpentis Subspace Node. You must jump exactly from the jump node, or you will fail the mission.
Mission 28 - The Great Hunt -
Your mission is simple: escort the Bastion until you are ordered to head for the Sol Jump Node. You have only 10 minutes to reach the Jump Node, but you should be able to reach it in only 5 minutes. When you arrive at the Jump Node, prepare for the final conflict.
Mission 29 - The Final Battle -
This mission takes place within Subspace. Your shields do not work while you are in subspace, so use caution when firing missiles. Delta Wing will be responsible for taking out the 5 reactors which power the Lucifer. When the last reactor is put out of commission, the Terran-Vasudan Alliance has won the Great War.
And so it is over. That world devoid of life does not exist because of you. And to think that the very future of your world would be decided in just 10 minutes. Only you know of your victory. At the very moment you watch as the Lucifer is destroyed in a nuclear explosion, the people of both the Terran world and Vasudan world await the future of the Earth, for the light emitted in the brilliant explosion of the Lucifer takes some time before it reaches your world, where your people will witness what you saw, only at a later time. After years in space, you may finally return to your base, to your home. You step outside of your spacecraft and think to yourself, hoping never to need it again. And you realize that what happened was reality, and for a purpose - The purpose being the survival of the world. I leave you with the fact that the next time you take a look to the sky, and stare into space, you are also staring into time itself. And the next time someone tells you that you have 10 minutes to complete a task, remember that anything can happen in even the shortest amount of time. You know that because you were there, when 10 minutes seemed like eternity. You will be remembered for millennia to come as one of the people who are the reason that life still exists.
Eternity-10
Written by Draconian 874
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