Tactical Strike Groups is a new endgame mercenary contract designed for large, organized player squads. The mission tasks players with assaulting a fortified Nyx asteroid base held by hostile forces, working through a multi-phase assault that rewards coordination across ship classes and combat roles. The contract is accessible from Levski and scales in intensity as each phase of the station is dismantled. The rewards will be great but expect heavy resistance throughout.

Mission Overview

• Available via Contract Manager at Levski under Verified Mercenary Contracts
• Intended for squads of 7 or more ships across multiple sizes and classes
• Smaller ships (no larger than a Drake Cutlass Black) are required to navigate the station's internal superstructure trenches
• Larger ships can participate in exterior combat and defense throughout the mission

Key Mechanics

• Only ballistic weapons deal damage to hardened station targets including Power Relays while energy weapons will have an effect damaging Cooling Units and Core components
• Ships will accumulate Distortion Damage when flying inside the superstructure trenches
• Distortion increases in the core central chamber as soon as the weak points are revealed and the shutter that nests them opens up
• Station entrance to the interior FPS section opens when core is destroyed. Trench run entrances open up when all power relays are destroyed