Raid Mercenary Base

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This mission is tough and will take some perseverence.

When you arrive at the base launch your torpedoes at the cruiser, doing this from short range will prevent them from geting shot down by turbo lasers. The next consideration is the static defences, link lasers and ion cannons together to get the best firepower for taking them out. I'd recommend shifting lasers to full charge and then moving laser energy to shields when required.

Once the defences have been cleared take on the fighters but keep an eye out for when the shuttle launched and inspect it. As soon as the base shields are down the ATR Storm will appear, save it in a preset and take out any fighters that are attacking it ('a' key). You must continue to protect it throughout its mission.

You should add the Otana to a preset before the ATR finds the bomb on board the base as you will need to protect the Otana while it disables it. There will be quite a lot of BlastBoats going for it so do your best to defeat them. They will launch missiles which you should try to shoot down before they reach the Otana. Once you have defeated all the BlastBoats the mission is complete.

If the Otana is hit by friendly fire it will start to attack the base and you will lose the mission, this is yet another mission bug.