I was able to clear out the Xenon by the gate using my M7M, most of the ships in the entire sector were clustered around it. Had to do it in 2 goes by killing as many capships as I could with Hammers (Aquilo launched those automatically), retreating when my shields got low. Once I'd taken out the Js, Ks (2 or 3 of each) the corvettes and fighters were easily dispatched while the only Q didn't spawn until later (easily taken out) when I was going to the unscanned roid detailed below.BrigandPhantos77 wrote: ↑Mon, 20. Dec 21, 23:16The first thing I did was draw off the fleet's personally, let them follow me around sector. The J's actually wouldn't leave the gate area, and ignored me. What I did was while the Xenon were chasing me, I brought in a mistral loaded with Lasertowers and ordered it to Jump to location. I sent it to what I deemed an off the grid kinda safe spot. Drop the towers, 10 at a time, then ordered the transport to jump back to the TL holding everything. Repeat until enough towers are placed, then wait for the counters on them to finish. Doing this they don't instantly gain full shields, so you have to be a little patient. But once I got to a sufficient number of them and the towers were ready. (I put them out in a spot just outside the map area. Then I flew past them. The Xenon all followed me and slowly, 1 at a time, entered the range of the towers. The towers lit them up as soon as they got close.Sovereign01 wrote: ↑Mon, 20. Dec 21, 01:33How did you set that up, did it work OOS?BrigandPhantos77 wrote: ↑Sun, 19. Dec 21, 06:04
Be mindful those caps respawn as soon as you personally leave system. I used 45 lasertowers set up as a wall to reduce the population of xenon in that sector. Worked very well, though a K did get lucky and take 2 of them out. I let them chase my springblossom around while the towers activated. Kept shooting at the shipyard.
2 of the J's won't leave the vicinity of the gate either. I had to piss them off by sniping them from a 6km distance with a True Light Seeker to get them to follow me into the wall.
Qs vaporized really quickly, the Is and Ks not soo quickly. But still, 45 towers hammering 1 ship at a time, they fell as if being pummeled by several capitals one at a time. All the fighters and P / PXs were nothing to these towers. Picked up quite a few M/AM warheads in the process. Also, lot's of bails from L, M, Ns. Brought in my Colossus eventually to let them land on it. Course, had to prod the Js to follow me into my wall. Gotta shoot them for more than about 5% shield or they actually ignore you. lol
Oh, if you leave the system for any reason during this, the Ks and I's will instantly respawn on the primary gate in and out of system. Learned this the hard way during the cleanup phase. And a True Light Seeker will let you snipe a J from a safe distance to get it to chase you. Just use beam weapons. 6km range.
Once there were no more Xenon ships on my sensors I brought in my Elephant while I claimed a bailed L that was handily by the gate since I hadn't managed to capture one intact for Reverse Engineering and had it dock before sending the Elephant to the HQ with its precious cargo on board. While that was going on I checked out the loot from the destroyed ships. Most of it was junk apart from one crate that contained 5 Point Singularity Projectors, I immediately jumped on those with my Elephant; grabbing those PSPs gave me the Scavenger achievement!
There was a Xenon shipyard in the sector that I was unable to take out, I tested firing all the Hammers I had left which was just enough to take out its shields and no more, so I decided to scan the couple of unscanned roids, the most distant of which was actually made of Nividium with a yield of 19. I did a test run with my Sirokos to the ship (actually 2 as first time unbelievably I forgot the boarding pods because I'd reloaded to a save before I transferred them from the HQ! ). I discovered that 5 marines are not enough for the Aran (just like with TC & AP) so I'll have to keep training, had a 6th one finish since so I'll have him join the others, I'll try again when I have a few more!