Break from the Action
This “mission” is a collection of a few side quests that you do not need to complete if you don’t want to. There are more than this, but these are the few we will do now.
Should have an upgrade or two from the last mission (shields are good to upgrade). Mordin should have a bit to say, as should Samara, and Tali as well.
*NOTE: I realize that I mention Samara, but if you have Morinth, then you’ll just have to kinda wing it.*
And don’t forget, you can spend Element Zero to grab any loyal member’s special power. With a full team ready to go, let’s now focus on side missions we have mostly ignored unless they’ve been in our way.
Should have three in the open:
- Omega Nebula – Recapture Freighter
- Pyros Nebula – Save Crashing Ship
- Citadel and Illium – pick up packages
And we shall do them in that order.
Recapture Freighter
Arinlarkan in the Omega Nebula has the two attractions: Utha with a balance of all but Ele. Zero, and MSV Strontium Mule to board.
Long range fight to start, and easy if you use cover. Document by the door, and go through for a terminal. Up the ramp are three more, then use the console on the wall to open the doors. FYI, target the unshielded ones first.
The side paths and rooms are nothing much (right side has gel). It’s the forward door that heads to the engineering room that you need. Take it and quickly burn the Blue Suns and the engineer in here. Power cells up top.
Come back and use the side paths to head up for a few more mercs. Head down the near hall to the locked door. Right side is the hack to open it, but getting in is not easy. You had best try to command your team to head in for cover, and don’t use the sides of the door for cover, just peek around. Once, in, turn around and kill the four dog bots incoming. Use the back panel.
Back to the upper walkway you will fight a final group of Blue Suns. Take cover and just watch out for the incoming powers and projectiles. If you can use them funneling down the hall at the start, that is great.
Before you enter the left door, go right (may be two more mercs) for an interesting sight. Go left for minerals, a docket, then open the payload. And that’s it, press B or whatever to end the mission.
Mordin should be a dry well now, but Samara is another story. If you’ve been good to her, the chance to strike should appear here or soon. But that’s just the first step, the next point is almost forcing her to take your relationship to the next level. What with The Code and all, I decided not to pull the trigger. I hear it doesn’t go there anyway.
And Tali may show interest in linking the suits.
Save Crashing Ship
Pylos Nebula, Nariph system.
- Jonus – poor in anything useful, much like a band of the same name
- Isale – I literally hit one medium peak and that was it
- MSV Broken Arrow – land
Take anti-armor peeps with you.
You are timed, so start bypassing the door, and run in for cover. Use the right console. Head up and clear the upper ledges, then activate the console near the ramp (ore on the other side of ramp). There is a lower path near the ramp as well, so clear the Geth and take the path across to use the other console. Then just ward off the machines as you run up the ramp to bypass the system to save the ship – though, you didn’t exactly save many on the ship. An email upcoming clarifies this.
Of course after breaking it off with Samara, it’s a dry well there too. Same with Tali… for now.
Disable Beacon
If you didn’t catch it, you grab this mission after completing the freighter mission (probably have to open an email).
It’s in the Sigurd’s Cradel nebula, the Decoris system.
- Laena – it says Rich, but it’s really just a lot of Palladium
- Sanctum – Ele. Zero and some Platinum, and for initially haveing just Good scan results, this planet was probably the best mineral source yet
Anyway, find the anomaly on Sanctum and land.
I brought Garrus and Thane, and with my sniping ability we just facerolled this.
Good choice too, because the first fight is long-range with three or so waves from the door. Pick up the ore in front and go in.
Inside, with you up high, them down low, and three snipers, they have no chance. Right door is a safe and audio log. Left side is about five enemies from the rocky corner.
Some ore and you take the tunnel, two more at the back, audio log, and power cells before the door. In the big room, the name of the game is focus fire and speed. First, make sure your guys are not forward, send them to the sides away from the incoming mechs. Secondly, just burn these things down to their health bars, because you can use biotics at that point. The beam cannon is your only real option with so little time and close space. I used the glass railing by the entrance door as final cover, and it worked.
After that, quickly snipe out the incoming group of about four Blue Suns. On the left is a crate by the wall blocking you from a gel by a ship (you can melee crates, fyi). Right side top room is just info on a computer; the left has a hack. Bypass the forward door to access the mainframe.
Well, we have reached the point when no crew members have anything left to say… oh well.
Stop Missile Attack
Should pick this up in an email.
- Destination: Skepsis system, Sigurd’s Cradel nebula (same as last side quest)
- Keimowitz – lots of big platinum hauls, but small peaks of everything else
- Pauling – good luck finding a second probe spot
- Crick – good haul, just too much iridium for me
- Watson – under the target vessel, has good peaks for ALL minerals
- Darwin – I did a whole hemisphere and got nothing, so good luck
- Wallace – found platinum and left, my eyes thanked me
- Franklin – a moon of Watson, and has a great haul of minerals
Land on Franklin and bring whatever team kills guys fastest.
You’re timed, so run up, kill the four to the left, and then go right to bypass the door. Kill as many of the guys across as you wish (probably posting up to the left), but your goal is to head downward, which there is a ramp nearby that leads right to the door. Just clear some guys, bypass the door, and kill the guy guarding the computer. Open the safe first, and then use the computer.
Then you have a choice of saving target 1, the Industrial District, or target 2, the Capital City. Of course I took the city, but you can choose the other if you want.
Packages for Ish
*NOTE: You pick this up from a guy to the right of the AfterLife bar entrance on Omega, which we did earlier if you followed. Also, he knows Miranda.*
It’s in the Eternity Bar of Illium. It’s just on a bench. So pick it up. And don’t think you need to pick up both this and the one on the Citadel; but you can get both and turn them in.
Feel free to speak with the bartender if you didn’t earlier. And if you found Conrad here before, the Slave Broker and her little quest is here now.
Return to Omega and get to Ish to the right. Ask him about the contents of the package and if you follow the line you can eventually persuade him to end his efforts. Otherwise you can just give him both packages.
You can even turn in one and then ask him about the second one to get to use the low-requirement paragon option to get even more credits.
