Upgrades
We picked up shotgun and armor upgrades on the prison ship. Feel free to do some prospecting to get the mats for the shotgun upgrade, if you use them.
Mordin has some more interesting info on your previous conversation, may be time to visit with ol’ Joker if you haven’t in a while, Jacob offers Heavy Ship Armor for 15000 Palladium (should have tons), Miranda offers faster mineral scanning for 15000 Iridium (buy it), Garrus has a cannon for 15000 Platinum (don’t need at the moment I think), and Jack is on the bottom of level 4.
*NOTE: If she’s your thing, perhaps you agree to have the ship go pirate.*
On the map, you’ll notice that in this Hourglass Nebula, you are in the Osun system, and there is a green ring on the edge. This green ring, and your fuel supply, are how you jump to other systems within a nebula. At the top of Osun is Faryar, which is where a mission is located. When you get to the nebula map you will be using fuel for every move you make.
So quickly get to the Faryar system and enter. Now for any scanning you do, you must be more selective since you can’t just grab more probes like nothing. The idea is to fill up on minerals, so perhaps it doesn’t matter. But if you just stick to the highest peaks in your scans, should have plenty of probes.
*NOTE: Exploring each planet is just visiting, them you don’t actually have to mine them to explore.*
- Antictra – Pretty rich peaks here, so only go for those.
- Alingon – Another very rich planet, but if you want to visit all, you probably should just drop 7 or so here.
- Wenrum – Yet another rich one.
- Nephros – Probably safe to drop one and leave.
- Tunfigel – Very rich in minerals.
- Quarem – Another rich planet.
- Daratar – Not much minerals here.
- Land on Daratar for the next mission.
Save the Crates
Mordin and Miranda, and have them with the hand cannons for armor.
The mission is simple. There are three mechs destroying crates. You must engage the mechs to stop them and then take them out. Usually only one mech will attack you, so burning one down and them moving on works well, since sometimes you can really tear into other mechs and they won’t attack.
The catch is you can engage as many as you want, but it gets hard to fight more than one at a time. Fighting all three one at a time probably will leave just 8 or so crates intact.
Killing the mechs is not hard. Take out their shields, reduce their armor, and then burn them down. There is a central piece of cover that can be used to kite the enemies, but again, it’s how many you fight at once that is the key. It’s purely up to you. Don’t forget to use your heavy weapon in addition to your anti-armor weapons and powers from everyone.
Find the power cells, Ele. Zero, and gel before you leave.
