Industrial Ops

The Industrial Ops is a special Mission type available at Forge Industries stations. It rewards in Forge Commendations (See Faction Currencies), as well as regular rewards.

This mission is the only method of increasing the Forge reputation as Forge Industries do not offer Mission Boards.

Industrial Ops

An industrial Ops run

Industry Ops is a mission that requires the player to gather resources and craft "Operational Supplies" for an ever-increasing cost and reward payout, while the Forge station crafting these supplies is under a constant barrage of enemy waves, of an also-ever-increasing difficulty.

Player will have to manage salvaging scrap, mining asteroids, forging repair packs, ammo packs, defense turrets, and managing resources for actual Supplies, and also engage in combat of some sort to help fend off these attacks, all at the same time.

General Guide: While many strategies exist, usually a salvage or mining ship with some sort of combat turret or combat drones will be required, ideally a long-range weapon like a Railgun. Farmable resources will respawn upon completing the mission and a new cycle will start with a higher target number, but will reward more Forge tokens as a reward. Manual steering is advised, as is frequent docking and undocking to unload collected resources and manage forging queues. Skillsets with Industry, Drones, Mining/Salvaging and Combat mix are suggested.

There is no proper end to this mission. Once the player has had enough, or they run out of salvage (which is really hard to do), the only option is to go home. Doing so will abort the mission, and the player will promptly lose a single point of Rank.

Craftable Items

With the materials salvaged or mined around the station the following can be crafted:

• Ammo Packs - Needed for the Station and the Defensive Turrets. Without Ammo, they can't defend themselves. Consumed automatically.
• Repair Packs - Needed to Repair the Station and the Defensive Turrets. Will be consumed automatically.
• Defensive Turret Packs (Maximum active: 4) - Are the Defense Systems of the Station. If the turrets are destroyed, new ones will deploy automatically if there are sufficient packs in the Bay.
• Operational Supplies - Operational Supplies are needed to advance the Industry OPs. Each set that is needed, when completed, will restart the mission with a higher target number.

The raw materials are specific to the POI and will disappear from the inventory if the player leaves the POI and the mission cancels.

Difficulties

The Industrial Ops can be ran under Normal, Elevated, or Extreme difficulty.

• Normal: Starting enemies are based off current station level
• Elevated: Starting enemies are based of current station level + 3 + player Industrial Magnate Rank / 2
• Extreme: Starting enemies are based of current station level + 5 + player Industrial Magnate Rank

Each difficulty rewards higher token rewards. Enemies themselves will spawn no wrecks whatsoever, so there is no point in hoping to salvage anything.

Industrial Magnate Rank

Industrial Magnate Rank

When crafting supplies and completing the mission, the rank will increase by 1 for every two extreme mission completed. Rank can be seen on the Captain's information screen.

Rank can be retired at any time by pressing the Retire button, in exchange for some Tokens. Doing so is recommended if the player cannot beat the enemies any more due to level increase, and they tend to overrun the station.

Gallery

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  The Station
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  Docking Window
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  Crafting Page of the Station
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  Defensive Turret
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  Operating in the POI