Custom Player Missions

In an effort to help expand the Star Sonata universe, pilots from all walks of life are invited to help write up some new tasks to complete! Custom Player Missions is a congregation point for all new, player-written quests. Feel free to link any newly created missions to this page.

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L0L's Missions

Engines 21

So in Lunacy, next to Brute Force, there's a warp called "Practice Room". Inside the practice room there's 4 vultures with the name, "Assistants" and all drop keys, 4 keys are required to enter the next room called "Stage". Inside Stage is the uber, Ballerina. She flys a vulture modified with a pink graphic and upon entering shouts, "Come and dance with me...". Her main weapon is a beam with about 500 range and incredibly high RoF, something like 35k DPS. This does laser damage, but her Projectile (which acts somewhat like a vulture's projectiles) do 10k dmg on impact but with a low RoF, like 2 seconds. She goes around speed 300 and has about 250k sheilds with 50% resist to all but heat, which is 60%.

Upon killing she drops Ballerina's Nimble Slippers (t21 engine that focuses on turning) Ballerina's Trophy (commod used for engine 21) 2b credits

The mission to kill her starts in Sol at Enforcer station, and reads

A shady salesman walks up to you. "Hey you, you over there. What's your name? <playername>? Okay <playername>, I heard you thought you had the best engine possible, am I right?" You look at him and cock your head slightly to the left, not getting the gist of what the small, grubby man is trying to say. "Alright buddy, lemme just get out with it. I was a aerobatics coach for this girl, see?" he looks at you, but you don't respond and he continues, "and she was the [i]best[/i]. I mean, I don't like to brag, but she was going places!" He stops, a faraway look in his eyes as he looks up at the ceiling. "It all fell apart. She thought I was holding her back and [i]left[/i] me! Not only that, but she also took an engine prototype I'd been working on, trying to make it better so she'd perform better in her shows. She then won the systemwide championship, as if to spite me." he said, almost bitterly. "Basically <playername>, I need you to destroy her ship and get that engine back to me. Are you up for it?

Requires Engine 20 Requires 21 Skill Points Requires one kill of Ballerina Requires 1 Ballerina's Trophy

Reward: Engine 21.

Upon finishing the mission,

"So <playername>, do you have the stuff?" he says, looking slightly bedraggled. "Oh good, you have it" he says as he takes the trophy and walks away. You call after him, asking about engines 21 and the special engine she dropped upon dying. "Oh, I tinkered with that engine. I have no use for it now, but you should be able to use it without trouble. Besides, I'm gonna pawn this trophy and make a fortune!" he turns the corner and you feel queasy, almost as if you'd done something illegal. The feeling passes as you gaze upon the newly installed engine, with its faintly glowing surface...

Engine is approximately 25k thrust, 9k turning, with a +10% speed bonus. Size is medium- large, something like 100.

Cygnus

You are walking through the back alleys of another dirty space station, when you spot him; the man you thought you left in the burning husk of his spaceship, now lying in a pile of garbage, his eyes staring off into the sky, his lips twitching as if whispering some unseen melody, it is none other than Cardinal Bellarmine.

Curious, you approach him and shake his shoulder lightly; in response he spasms, throwing his entire body into the air with fright, until he sees who you are.

"You. You! It's you! You're the bastard who ruined me! You...how dare you attack me like that, and steal the holy relic of Absolution! I want it back, you hear me! I want it back this instant! It...it never would have happened if I'd had it...i could have...they wouldn't have..." he fades off into silence, muttering silently to himself, then glances up at you again, suddenly furious, "What are you still doing here!? Bring it back to me! Return my weapon! Steal it back from that vile impostor that has taken my place! If you do, you will have absolution."

You stare at him for a long moment, and he raises an eyebrow, "And more money than you can dream of, of course. NOW BRING ME MY BABY!"

Mission requirements: Bring Bellarmine his Excommunicator. I should be quick about it; in his current state, he doesn't look like he will hang around for much longer.

After a long time of searching, you finally find Bellarmine, once again lying in a pile of garbage; this time, you lean close to listen to his rambling, as he mutters, "Beaten...cant believe...beaten! Lost! Run...away! Is that a...wormhole? It looks strange...clouds billowing out...clouds? Impossible...cant be...the aethyr...no...No...This cant be! This is Impossible! NO!"

His eyes clench tight, and his entire body seems to spasm; finally, you shake him, and his eyes flash open with a gasp. He stares at you in terror for a long moment, and then closes them again, "Ah...Cygnus. You've returned. Good...good. I see you have my weapon...this means that the impostor who took my place has been defeated. Perhaps he will experience the same fate that I..." he pauses, shaking his head slightly, "In any case, with this I shall be able to return to my rightful place among the absolved. The next time you come for absolution, ask for my grace to receive your reward."

Standing and straightening his tattered robes, he walks from the alley with a slightly renewed sense of dignity, leaving you, confused, behind.