Side Mission D/2 - Infinity -
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This is the second half of the pre-Slaughterhouse Combats. This level takes place about a weekish after Endless, and about a week before Slaughterhouse. In order to play it in the timeline, play it directly after Endless, and then move on to Slaughterhouse. Both sides have established lines and bases in various places now, including "offscreen". Darren Christos' ship has been repaired and augmented in much the same way that Nagaya's ship was changed by the Nanz. Hong's fleet has repaired and re-established itself as well. In this half of the mission, you command Darren Christos once more. The promised augmented ships have arrived, and although the Nanz themselves have not showed up yet, your pirate armada shows a marked increase in power. Darren has decided to test their power with an assault wave, and eliminate one of the Terran forward bases, in hopes of gaining an advantage in the day's combat.
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Objectives:
Eliminate all Terran forward bases.
Destroy as many TFHQ ships as possible.
Darren Christos' Alien Ship must survive.
Pirate Battlestation must survive.
If opportunity presents itself, attack and kill Major Hong.
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During Wave 1:
Darren Christos: "The ship is nice... both mine and the fleet in general. I'm rather impressed... didn't think these guys would be worth the hassle Nagaya went through. Alright. Let's hit this forward base, and move on and see if we can't cause some damage today, boys."
Terran Patrol Group C: "Heading Three-Delta-Three, reading... 6 hostiles. Requesting permission to move in to intercept and defend the forward airspace. Hostiles appear to be the Alien/Pirate hybrids we encountered last combat. Use caution. Over and out."
Major Hong: "Read you, and permission granted. Head on in, keep your comms open."
Darren Christos: "Got some scumbags coming in! Clean up here and take 'em out."
After Wave 1:
Major Hong: "Patrol Group C... report in? *he listens to the static, agitated.* "Dammit. Basecamp Omega?" *Again, static.* "..Grr. The base and the patrol... This new breed of pirate... I've underestimated them. Especially with Nagaya's Lieutenant here. ... I have an idea. Get Commodore Mercedes on the horn."
Darren Christos: "Alright. Let's head forward with the momentum we've got. There's another base nearby... we'll hit it next."
Pirates: "Aye, sir!"
Midway during combat with the station:
Commodore Mercedes: "This is Commodore Mercedes, they've taken the bait. I've jumped in behind them and am proceeding to attack."
Darren Christos: "What the hell? They set an ambush! About face! ... And don't be afraid to stay in front of that Peitho, either. Hah. These Sidewinders should come in handy... *At this, Christos looks around. He's apparently trying to see if the pirate in the Gunship still has his Sidewinders, too.* Hmph. Well, let's go."
Upon death of the Peitho and Proteuses, end Wave 2:
Commodore Mercedes: "This is Mercedes... ejecti-... It's not workiiaaaaAAAH!-*static.*"
Major Hong: "..."
Sergeant: "Your.. next move, sir?"
Major Hong: "Send Zeta Squad over. Charge them right in. Theyre too busy to be able to stop a lightning rush at this point. Maybe a change in overall formation will help our chances..."
Wave 3:
Pirate: "Darren! We're under attack! Help us out here! They've flat out charged us!"
Darren Christos: "Wheel around! The base is under attack! .. we need to regroup anyways... pick up reinforcements at the base. ... heh.. Oenones. Let's see how well this Gravity Warp works on beams."
After Wave 3:
Darren Christos: "How's the base?" *He receives an affirmative from the base; they're fine.* Good. Anyone know where they came from?"
Pirate: "Down that way sir, heading Six-Alpha-Seven."
Darren Christos: "Alright. Let's head that way and see what we can find..."
Upon arrival:
Darren Christos: "Ahh... look at that. Another base. This must be the last; when we were fighting before, they only had four construction crews, it looked like... and the 4th would be Hong's base. Well. While we're here, we may as well take this one out, eh?"
Pirate: "This one's got platform coverage too. Won't be as easy. I don't see any ships though?"
Darren Christos: "Keep an eye out this time...fan out the formation."
Pirate: "Yessir."
And sure enough, some Terrans gate in, attempting to surround the pirates:
Pirate: "There they are, sir, Looks like a defensive group. This must've been their first base if it's so well defended."
Darren Christos: "Right on schedule. Have at 'em. Helios... so make use of the lasers, gentlemen. And Charybdis... try not to surround those, for once. They actually work better that way."
After the base and defenders are killed and end wave:
Darren Christos: "That should be the last of their forward bases. All that's left is Hong and his camp."
Nagaya: "Good. I'm sending you a pair of ships... try not to lose them."
Darren Christos: "Excellent timing, King Nagaya. It looks like they're seding another assault wave... though our sensors caught them long before they got here, unlike the Oenones."
Pirate: "Never seen those ones before."
Darren Christos: "Yeah. Tmolus. They're new...ish. Long range. Not so great here, but their Frosch Guns can still knock your systems out of commission for awhile. We've dealt with the others before. Take 'em out, boys, keep 'em from destroying the base."
When the strike force is destroyed:
Darren Christos: "Alright... we're going to regroup and head for the main base. Engage Hong if you see him."
Pirate: "Hell is that?"
Darren Christos: "Never seen that weapons before on a Cronus... looks like some sort of special laser. Keep an eye on it, be careful."
When Hong's core is exposed (i.e. one of the main 4 struts is blown off):
Major Hong: "I'm pulling back! Buy me some time!"
Sergeant: "Aye aye sir, engaging."
Hong retreats; upon destruction of the base:
Darren Christos: "Alright, pull back. We've done enough damage for the day... time to regroup ourselves."
Nagaya: "Excellent work, Darren... I can take over from here. You're being reassigned to another sector. I will take over the assault on Zulu Sector personally."
Darren Christos: "...hmph. Very well, sir."
Mission Accomplished!
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Editor's Note: Since you have to destory Hong's ship to win, just follow the roleplay... RPly, Hong would retreat when his Core is exposed. This gives enough leeway time for his ship to be repaired before the player shows up for Slaughterhouse. The Cronus Elite is a homebrew addition made for Infinity, after seeing how badly the Cronus does in Martyr because it can't use the Flux Projector under AI control. The modded Megabeamer is an orange colored 2 damage, 150 frame duration megabeam, and otherwise is identical to a Megabeam. Hopefully this lets the Cronus be more "dangerous" like it is in player hands with a Flux Projector. The Oenone Alpha's are also homebrewed: I found out that the Lancets were having too much of an effect on the battle than I'd like. Your defeat or victory were almost entirely determined by how well the AI used the Lancets, and I ddin't like that, so I replaced them with the Alphas. They use Tellers instead of Lancets, to keep with the Beam theme. This has been tested and beatable (with some slight difficulty) by me several times, so I know it's quite beatable. I'm much happier with this one than the last one, I was able to keep spawn numbers much more down because TFHQ ships are much stronger in comparison to the pirate ships that I had to spanw in... *hordes*... in Endless.