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I was trying to finish up this Tier 3 mission last night when something strange happened. I had already escorted the freighter (the first half of the mission) and was working on taking out the Nova Courier and its escorting fighters. I targeted the Nova and used Bomber Strike to keep it busy until I dealt with the fighters. Worked great - the Nova was soon busy blasting away at the "Bomber Strike" ships (2 TIEs and a Bomber).

Problem occured after I finished off the last of the fighters. Surprisingly both TIE fighters and the TIEBomber were still intact and fighting the Nova Courier (Isay surprising because that Nova Courier NEVER misses when it shoots at me - stripping my ship in mere seconds!). Anyway, I thought "Cool, this should make it way easy - 4 against one!" Wrong. After making just one pass in my Interceptor (with 1200 point screens front and back) my shields were gone along with sizable chunks of my 800 point armor. Ok, time for a different strategy - I got out of range to let the sheilds recharge. When they were about athird of the way back up, I get a message from the "Bomber Strike" ships that the target has been destroyed and they are leaving the area. WooHoo! I think to myself - maybe they aren't that worthless after all! Then I realize - wait a minute the stats on the Nova Courier were still pretty high just a minute ago (like 75% shields and 100% everything else). How in the world die the TIEs polish it off that quickly?

So I go to the "target waypoint" (which follows the Nova Courier as it moves) and there is nothing there. Just the waypoint flashing in space. OK - cool, no ship - the mission is over - the TIEs must have gotten it. I go back to the mission officer to collect my reward and he tells me, "Get back out there! Youv'e got work to do!" Hmmm...I didn't fail the mission - he would have started me over if that had happened. So back into space I go and head out to the mission waypoint hoping that the Nova will be there. Nope - just the flashing waypoint again.

I tried hyperspaceing, going to another planet, and so forth to see if it would correct the problem. No luck. Usually this would automatically give a "failed mission" message but it didn't. I don't want to "abort" the mission and start all over again. Has anyone else had this problem? Any way to get it to generate the Nova so I can finish it up without starting at the beginning again?

I'm glad to see another Black Epsilon Pilot

I also hada lotbugs during tier 3 mission 3, 4. I think that I had tried this mission more than 7 times.

But finallyI succeeded. When I grouped with my friend, quest messages appeared correctly.

(I soloed every mission except this one )

And I could succeed this mission. I don't know why these bugs occured, but I solved my problem in this way by accident. lol

So it is suggested to group with another pilots and try again.

Cheer up! Tier 4 ismuch easier than tier 3. Even hunting corvetteis easier than tier 3 missions.

Lavenia Starwalker--------------------------------

Unfortunate Dark Jedi who met NGE just before completing Padawan Quest, and missed Elder Jedi Robe forever!

Imperial Black Epsilon Ace Pilot

Glad to hear the missions get easier (these tier 3 one are a major pain to do - what with the bugs and stuff).

But, I still haven't got an answer to my question yet. Anyone know how to get the Nova to "respawn" or whatever?