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Mission Nine: Borrowed Time

Objectives

• Escort the fleet to Corulag and protect the shuttles while the soldiers search for information.

You've tracked the container to Corulag, where it'll shortly explode and shut down the Imperial space station there. Your goal now is to find more information on the Imperial superweapon, so you'll have to board the station and find the data before the EMP wears off.

Tip: Keep in mind that, after the next couple of missions are over (and they'll go quickly), the systems Taris, Corulag, Coruscant, Anaxes, Aeten 2, and Abregado Rae will all either be controlled by the Empire or pirates. So you may want to beef up your shield generators and garrisons on bordering planets before you complete the tenth mission.

Also, there'll probably be a large space battle at Corellia, so you may want to build up the space station there as high as it'll go, and add an Ion Cannon to your ground repertoire. You'll need a sizable fleet to defeat them, so build some ships now if you need to!

Don't leave your shuttles exposed like this; get up close
and protect their rears!

Bring all the ships you can muster with you to Corulag, but if you have any Marauders on your stack, you might want to leave them behind; they tend to focus on the space station here, but your objective is to search it, not destroy it. Taking them away will free up room for another Assault Frigate, as well.

Anyway, at the beginning of the round, your four shuttles will automatically dock with the station here and start their search; your goal is to protect them from the ships in the system until they get the information they need and can retreat. Thus, all you really want to do is move all of your other ships so that they take up positions directly next to the shuttles, and then...protect them. That’s pretty much all there is to it! The ships in the system will "wake up" from the EMP effects over time; you probably won't be able to destroy all the ships in one wave before you can move on to the next, but it won't matter, as you just need to survive and keep the enemy ships from firing on your shuttles. Bring in new ships as needed to replace any that get destroyed, and you should polish the mission off without too many problems