Event: Hunt the Polaris

[icycalm]

https://x.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/19 ... 4588222650



There's a little trailer on Twitter that's not on YouTube.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... nt/mr3vgh8

Imagine the US Navy going, "Uh, so some bad guys stole one of our big ships. We need you to go out in your fishing boats and take it out."

Some people just paid $2k for a ship bigger than a Polaris, so I think we'll be ok.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... is_is_sick

Hunt the Polaris is sick

I love how the whole server comes together, with their ships big and small, to hunt down this monstrosity.

Zipping around with a large group, splitting up to search and mop up any fighters.

Then the Polaris fight starts and everyone starts blasting it, lasers flying everywhere, people dodging the turrets.

It's incredible. Love that PvE is finally getting some love!

This is what the XenoThreat Idris mission was like during Overdrive and it was one of my favorite missions. I'm glad to see they brought it back in a new form.

The only thing that sucks is the payout. The whole lobby is accepting the mission only to find out that there are 10 out of the 100 ppl actually there fighting the Polaris and once we do all the work we get 20k maybe less cuz the whole lobby wants to accept it. They got to change it to where you have to be at the actual mission to get payout or something.

I did the mission 8 times today while I was refitting my ships in my hangar. I have over 100 scrip. I ain't boverd about the money.

What is scrip good for?

Trading for Wikelo favours.

I was going to plan a weekend session so we could do this, but the way it's set up for the whole server to join I just don't see the point.

It's global to the whole server, so everyone does the same mission at once, no need for grouping or coordinating.

Trying to find the enemy escort ships is exhausting, the Polaris is at least sort of easy to find because the entire furball trails it the whole battle, but trying to cycle targeting to get the Hammerheads is near impossible with so many hostile players everywhere all the time so it's hard to know who to avoid and who to shoot. And the scan system takes so long to get a read not to mention you've got to nose down a thousand rounds of laser fire to even try and get one, so the entire scan system is as likely to get you killed as it is to make it any easier.

There are apparently one or two web hangar rewards as well. A chair and maybe also a shirt? This is the chair:

Salvaged Polaris Captain's Chair (Hunt the Polaris Mission Reward)| Star Citizen Collectables
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihfCCW2vZ6g



It's pretty cool. I can see us using them in Pyro/Grim HEX/Nyx and generally pirate hangouts.

So basically do the mission whenever you can/want. Then bump this thread if you get the chair so we can see how many chairs we got. And look into whether there's also a shirt involved.

I have no idea how long this mission will be offered, but it may end with Invictus, so let's say two weeks at best. I'll try to get it done soon.

[shubn]

You can accept the contract and go about your day, and if it gets completed, you get the chair. That's how I got mine. Of course, we want to actually do the mission at some point, but if you at least want to secure the chair, that's what you can do.

As for the shirt, it's a reward for completing the three Navy Patrol Training scenarios that appear in your contract manager's "Priority" tab. They are very easy, and took me about 15 minutes to complete in total.

[ExiledOne]

I got the chair.

[Some guy]

I got the chair.

[shubn]

I got the chair for icy's account and for clones 1, 3 and 4.

[icycalm]

Turns out the official announcement for this mission (event?) was in the Invictus page: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/c ... -Whats-New

HUNT THE POLARIS
Breaking News: UEEN Ship Hijacked by Frontier Fighters

In an act of treasonous piracy, the evermore dangerous Frontier Fighters have disrupted our proud Invictus Launch Week to further their extremist agenda by stealing a UEEN Polaris en route to Area18.

Rowena Dulli, attaché to the CDF has called for “all CDF members and patriotically minded pilots to hunt down these terrorists and take back what is ours. If the Frontier Fighter movement is not quelled, we could be facing another XenoThreat level conflict.”

The most recent sightings of the Polaris report it attempting to leave the Stanton system.