Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock/Chapter 5 - MkII


 * Turns out Cain and Sinon have a little side project going on with the Scorpia Shipyards. Mark II variants of the Viper fighter.
 * The Admiral is after a good news story after what happened at Caprica Terminal. Something to boost confidence in Colonial Fleet, and keep the funding rolling in.
 * Sinon Quade: Don't implicate me in Lucinda's spending spree. She still has seven colonies waiting for their Jupiters.
 * Anyway, the Scorpia shipyards could use some relief. As a primary manufacturer for many of the colony militaries, they're under constant harassment from Cylon forces.
 * Sir, Cain wants Daidalos at Scorpia to double the workshop capacity for the first batch of Mark II Vipers. I'll have the FTL drives spun up and ready for your jump command.

Before attempting this mission, you should have a few ships queued for Daidalos - consider at least two additional Adamants, and a Berzerk if you have the Reinforcements DLC. These ships will be enough to deal with the increased enemy presence at Scorpia.

Although the enemy will not intentionally target it, the Scorpia Fleet Shipyards must survive the mission.

The mission opens with five enemies, being led by a Revenant. The Revenant is a powerful gunship that is lightly armoured, and should be focused down by your fleet as quickly as possible. Between your Manticores and the Adamants that you should have built before this mission, you should have enough missiles to put the Revenant under. If you decided to equip your Adamants or Manticores with torpedoes, use them on the Revenant.

Continue to manoeuvre as necessary to attack the other ships until Turn 4, when Sinon Quade will appear and give you another objective. You will requested to analyze the wreckages of several destroyed Adamants. Look for a large white ring and send at least one of your ships into it. They must remain inside the ring for three turns to complete this objective. Ignore the three Talons that jump into the fray - they aren't priority targets and do not need to be destroyed to finish the mission.

After staying in the ring for enough turns, Admiral Cain will appear and voice her displeasure. She will then order the destruction of the three Adamant wrecks, which can be easily accomplished by missiles, torpedoes, or a wing of Vipers from Adamants or the Daidalos.

Destroy the three Adamant wreckages to complete the mission. Helena will comment that the remaining Cylon forces are withdrawing, and the mission will conclude.