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I'm at the same place you are, I can't figure out how to do that mission without a squadron of friends at the moment

Aaand you don't need to do that mission unless you want to for the sake of completness. You can go straight to the Imperial Admiral down the hall and get your kessel missions. (kill 30 rebels, followed by kill the vette)

I'm going to try going back to it now that I've upgraded some of my gear, see if I fair any better against the gunboats at all.

Heres how me and a friend did the mission (note, my friend has a fast ship with good shields,and it was her idea in the first place):

Cuch, what sort of gear / ship do you fly in?

So far my biggest problem is getting shot up by the gunboats before I can shoot *them* up. Have gotten my reward shield mounted now, however.
That being said, I switched to a vaksai today and killed most of the fighters, had one of the gunboats nearly dead. And then everything vanished because I'd taken too long... (I was making long, fast runs through the middle of the ships, then boosting out again)

If I can get a similar speed from my Rhikxyrk or a Kimo with the extra guns, I might manage it. Just plain hard to kill T4 gunboat's in 1-2 passes when you only carry one gun, even when it is my borstel (not found enough re8 guns to make it better yet =/ )

well at least i dont feel completely incompetent now... ive been fighting with the same mission for aprox. 3 weeks lol ... seems there are two basic scenarios for me ... either i get the hell pounded out of me right away... or i slowly whittle down the black sun forces only to run out of time before i can finish them all off... highly frustrating mission ...

Just soloed the mission.

I was flying my Rihkxyrk.
I was carrying the lv8 reward shields (RE'd)
lv8 reward gun (not RE'd - the Borstal)
re'd level 7 gun (based around the ionic pulse gun from the vaksai mission)
crafted cert 7 (Advanced) blaster.
Capacitor was an RE'd cert 4, 49 regen, 1650 energy after overload 3
an RE'd lv8 engine, 82.3 top speed, 75+ in y/p/r - though the speed was more important than ypr in this case
lv8 RE'd booster, 43 acceleration, 33 top speed, 2515 energy
Had 3 proton torps left in my launcher, didn't use them.

Programs I was running, EO3, WO3, CO3, RO3. Also had cap to shield 4
20sec crafted droid interface.


I set up the opposite side of the RSF ships to the waypoint, about 1.5k from the RSH ships.
After the black sun appeared, I flew forward at top speed, at 800m I started firing, spraying my shots around a bit.
flew out the other side, hit boosters, and hit cap to shield shunt.

kept going till my cap and shields had recovered. targetted the nearest fighter, turned a 180 and flew through the middle of the swarm again, this time I blew up one of them and damaged a handfull of others.
Boosted, shunted and got away.

From that point I just made full speed (approx 950 with EO3, 1250 with boosters) passes through the middle of the ships, taking out one or two fighters on every run until the gunboats were the only ones left. I didn't manouvre much at all, except to roll around as I flew out the other side.

Gunboats, I targetted a weapon system on them and flew right through them. my shields were tough enough (with frequent cap shunts) to take the beating as I came in range of them.


Once I had the hang of making the pass and not turning to chase something, it was fairly easy. The RSF ships joined in on my second run past them, the blacksun must have shot them as they flew past.