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Epilogue - Addendum
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Welcome to the 10th and final part of my guide to EVE first Epic Mission Arc. For a brief article on how I found it and why I think everyone should do this arc please read the Epilogue.
And now for the finale…
Epic Mission Arc: The Blood-Stained Stars
Chapter 8a: Closing In
Mission 44: A Stranger’s Face
A simple courier mission to deliver some Altered Identity Records to the given location.
Mission 45: The Sisters and The Spy
Deliver Tahaki Karin to the Society of Conscious Thought’s waiting space liner in deadspace. Once you drop your passenger off the liner will show up as a hostile on your overview, DO NOTHING! The liner will make a quick exit without making a hostile move towards you, you’ll also get a pop-up message from a Minmatar agent telling you that you have their support in your hunt for Dagan. You can now return to Sister Alitura for your next assignment.
Mission 46: Sealing the Deal
Take out a SoCT spy at the location given. Once you pop the spy their escort will warp out and you can complete the mission with Siste Alitura. If you want the loot and salvage from the escort ships destroy them first then take the spy out.
Wave 1:
1 x Society Spy (Cruiser)
7 x Society Escort
Once the spy is dealt with you get another pop-up message of support, this time from the Caldari and you can return to Sister to complete the mission.
Mission 47: Chasing Shadows
I had a few problems with this mission, mainly because I stupidly took my vengeance into low-sec to pick something up and got ganked by a bunch of red flashies camping the station I was leaving. So After buying a new ship (a Retribution this time) and fitting it out I went off thinking this would be another straightforward kill mission.
Wave 1:
1 x Kritsan Parthus (Battlecruiser, tracking disruptor)
6 x Mercenary Rookie (Frigate)
Wave 2:
3 x Mercenary Fighter (Frigate)
The Mercenary Rookies and Fighters were not a problem and were despatched without too much fuss, though the battlecruiser was eating through my tank like it wasn’t even there.
After re-docking a few times to repair my armour I decided it was time for a change of tactics. I came to the conclusion that I was far better off getting in close and fast than I was sitting at 14km and orbiting sedately. Swapping out the radio crystals I had in my tech II pulse lasers for multifrequency crystals lowered my optimum range to just shy of 5km and let me get in under the range of Kritsan’s lasers. It took a good few volleys as she had a tracking disruptor pointed at me but she popped eventually. Once Kritsan is down you get yet another pop-up message, this time from the Amarr. It would seem that everyone is gunning for Dagan and wants him out of circulation.
Note: After completing the above mission you reach another branch point. This point gives you four options and determines who your allies will be in the last few missions. I don’t think there is an awful lot of difference to the actual missions, just where you go to get them and who you get them from. I chose the Gallente commander for the simple fact that the bonus for the mission to go and meet him was the highest. If anyone has completed the missions for the other branches and has found them to be appreciably different from what follows I’d be grateful if you could let me know.
Mission 48: The Gallente Commander
Travel to the rendezvouswith Bruce Colterne in the Sheron system. Its not far and he’ll meet you at the mission bookmark in his Megathron (thats him in the image at the top of the post), he’ll give you your next mission.
Mission 49: Our Man Dagan
Destroy Dagan’s ship and return him to Brus for verification of his identity. Upon warping to the encounter around a small Caldari style station in deadspace you’ll come across Gallente forces engaged in combat with some pirate frigates. I’m pretty certain that these forces will be determined by the choice you made at the branch point. In any case, they’ll destroy a few of the enemy, and a few of them will be destroyed in return, before warping awa and leaving you to deal with Dagan and his last remaining escort ships.
Wave 1:
1 x Dagan (Cruiser, target painter)
3 x Dagan’s Escort (Frigate)
I took out the escorts first whilst orbiting Dagan at close range, I’m guessing that Dagan’s resistances are mainly EM and THERM as it took a while for me to get to his hull but once I did I cut through it like butter. This left me with a few wrecks and a cargo can containing Dagan himself. Return to your respective commander to complete the mission.
Mission 50: Dal Segno al Fine
After your cammnder has verified Dagans identity you are to transport him to a waiting Sisters of EVE transport. The transport lies behind an acceleration gate and I went in fully expecting a fight of some sort, possibly an ambush or double-cross. But no, this mission is what it seems to be at first glance, a simple transport and drop off.
Surrounding the transport are four battleships, one from each faction, and as you warp in you receive a transmission from Sister Alitura telling you to remain calm and not to target anything once you drop Dagan in the transport. From the subsequent conversation with Brus when I returned to him to complete the mission I gather that a swarm of rogue drones was supposed to appear and simply watch, doing nothing, but I didn’t see them.
Thats it, the end of the frst of EVE’s Epic Mission Arcs. I’ll have to wait for 3 months before I can go back and explore the other main branch of the arc which I didn’t take, unless someone else wants to do it and post their findings elsewhere (I’ll link to them from here). I’ve also got the go ahead to post guides to the missions on EVE-Survival, though I’ll be needing more information to produce the guides in the format prefered by that great site.
For my general opinion of the arc as a whole, read my Epilogue in the next post. As ever, comments, questions and criticism in the usual places (see the links at the top of the post).
Thank you for reading and, until next time, fly safe and good hunting.
