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Operation Spearhead - a fighter scenario

A lore-driven fighter-combat scenario with missions for single- and multiplayer


“Welcome aboard the Soraia, your last stop before the big leagues!”
You have spent the last half year of your combat pilot training aboard the patrol carrier AICN Soraia and are just about done with your tour when things go south. Your last tour has lead you to the Jaka system, a remote and desolate place that is primarily used as a transit system between populated systems of the Akhinnae Empire.
Combat drills and routine suddenly get replaced by live action combat against an unknown enemy that is invading the system. Can your squadron, the “Ashen Ravens” help to get the carrier safely back to the jump gate?

What is this?
This is a scenario that aims to combine a game like Wing Commander and Space Engineers. You will get straight “Search and destroy” missions and save allied ships against the enemy while trying to stay alive. If your fighter gets damaged or destroyed… equip your welder and rectify the situation!
You start with basic, unsophisticated patrol fighters and will find better fighters, equipment and weaponry along the way in later missions. Take along drones and blueprints for better combat fighters, scavenge the remains of your enemy or get supplies from freighters you save – but keep your carrier intact.

Who is this for?
“Operation Spearhead” is aimed at teams of 2 to 4 players but can be played as single player as well. The less people there are in your squad, the higher the difficulty will be.
Playing this scenario in single player is absolutely manageable but it will be rather difficult. Save often and make sure to keep your fighter in top condition.
This is a scenario for the seasoned space engineer player. If you do not know how to punch in FTL jump block coordinates or how to find steel plates in a conveyor-equipped ship, this scenario is NOT (yet) for you. Having experience with utilizing scripts such as WHAM from Whiplash also helps.

How to play it
The AICN Soraia is your mobile base of operations. You receive your mission briefings there and the coordinates of the mission area. Use them to jump the carrier into the mission area. Then take off with your fighters, find all enemy signals and eliminate them.
In many missions, you are required to protect allied ships or stations. You might find additional information or resources on these allied ships, so take a look and board them after the fight.
Finally, get back to the Soraia and repair and rearm your fighters before starting the next mission.




You can find the manual for this scenario here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2973987816

Please note: you will need to join the available Imperial faction first in order to properly spawn.

ATTENTION: Right now, some of the mission coordinates from the briefing screen can be accidentally two-liners. They still work but they clutter the FTL jump menu unnecessarily. Circumvent that by removing the break in the briefing text before adding the GPS coordinates to your GPS log.

This World comes with OPTIONAL mods. You can remove them, but they are adding much to the atmosphere of the scenario.
The world comes with a NON-OPTIONAL mod:
AE NPC Dummies - Interactable NPC Blocks by SEModder04 and Æ
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2289675817

Special thanks to Smokki and trx for beta-testing and giving me continuous feedback and to Whiplash for his brilliant scripts (as always)!



“How do winning conditions and mission conditions trigger?”
There are none. This is “just” a world with things placed in a story-telling order. The mission will “start” when you chose to jump to the next coordinates.
“Akhi.. Hakhu… what the heck?!”
Akhinnae – it’s my own world, with lore, language, history – I am a nerd, you know?
“DLC split the community, why do you use them here?”
I understand the argument, but I do not agree with it. I use the DLC because the give me the vanilla possibilities to use decorative freedom that I would otherwise not have. You are free to use the item without the DLC and I will not change my old worlds and blueprints so they can still be used without DLC. For new content, however, I chose to use all available DLC.


I will always publish all my Space Engineers work for free - but you can support me if you want - via
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