Mission 8 (Valkyrie)
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This is the eighth and final part of the Galaxy on Fire 2: Valkyrie Walkthrough.
Operation Valkyrization
Part 1: Ambush at Valkyrie
Carla reveals that Alice is her sister. Later on, Khador gives you the Cronus to test any errors in its integrated Khador Drive. When visiting Valkyrie to confront Alice she steals your Khador Drive, transforms her station into a battleship and sends a fleet of pirates after you while she attacks Kothar. You can choose to fight off the pirates, or escape, but either way you will have to rely on the slightly-unreliable integrated Drive which includes a trip through Void Space.
Part 2: Battle of Kothar
When you return to Kothar, you'll see Alice demolishing Kothar with a laser on Valkyrie Station. There are some pirates attacking as well as 4 generators and 8 turrets on Valkyrie Station. The generators are not hostile but the turrets will fire upon you. Destroy them from a distance and watch as Alice tries to make her escape, only to end up being stuck in the Void realm.
After the end of the mission, you will gain 1 S'kolptorr Rum 1 Khador Drive. Khador will announce that he fixed an error in the integrated Khador Drives in the new Deep Science ships thanks to Maxwell's accidental jump, and assures that no further incidents will occur ever again.
| Recommended Weapons | |
|---|---|
| Primary Weapons | Disruptor laser |
| - | Sunfire o50 |
| - | M6 A3 "Wolverine" or M6 A4 "Raccoon" |
| - | Icarus Heavy AS |
| Secondary Weapons | Liberator |
| - | Intelli Jet or Dephase EMP |
| Recommended Equipment | |
|---|---|
| Shield | Beamshield II or better |
| Armor | D'iol armor or better |
| Repair Bot | Ketar Repair Bot II |
| Booster | Polytron Boost |
| Miscellaneous | Khador Drive* |
| - | Rhoda Blackhole |
| - | AB-3 "Kingfisher" or AB-4 "Octopus" |
| Note | The ' * ' marked gear is necessary to complete the mission. |
Tips and Tricks
- Before mission 8, in which normally your Khador Drive will be stolen, you can store or sell your Kahdor Drive, it won't affect the mission surprisingly. So, in the end, you will have 2 Kahdor Drives (or one and the credits of the other sold one). This seems to be a bug and might be patched in the future. March 2017
- You are required to use the Cronus in this mission, so install the best weapons you have on it. If you have arrived and realize your weapon loadout is going to force you to leave some stuff behind you can exit, restart the game and immediately leave the station. (by pressing the green exit station button even before it appears on the screen.) You might want to show up with a few wing-men as well.
- If you own the Kaamo Club, store your old ship (via Keep) there when purchasing the Cronus, if possible, so that you can keep it when this is all over. You can also purchase it back at Kothar if you don't travel to other stations and stick to the objectives. Since the Cronus provided during this mission is free it costs nothing to upgrade either.
- "Glitch": Immediately upon arrival go to hangar before Khador has a chance to speak to you (otherwise just restart the game and try again). Sell your Khador Drive in the hangar and let Khador talk to you normally. The Cronus will not be there for purchase, but if you scroll down in Store to the Khador Drive and merely tap it, the ship will appear normally.
- You can fight the ambushing pirates initially and loot items from them, but your cargo hold would be unlikely to hold all of their drops unless you install many cargo compressors, which is exacerbated by Cronus' lack of equipment slots.
- While it is advisable to escape them with a cloak, you should save enough energy cells to afford the jump.
- At the Kothar station, stay some distance and use the Liberator to snipe off every target in sight. Its extreme range allows you to quite literally pick off everything from a distance.
- This is perfect mission to get Jammer medal easily. Right after getting kicked out of Valkyrie, shot EMP GL DX and escape (e.g. turn back and use booster/cloak). In case 2nd shot is necessary (due to increased durabikity, as player’ level goes up), cloak halps a lot.
Trivia
- The jump error during this mission is scripted. While Khador's retroactive fix explains why it never occurs again later on, it never malfunctions before this point anyway.