The Shadow of Old Transgressions (Homeworld/Mass Effect Crossover Quest)

Galactic Core

Balcora Gate

Repairing Bentus fully would take time you don't have. Potentially months in a fully fitted Bentusi shipyard. You on the other hand have mere days if not hours and whatever Aurora can put together in her hangar.

Nonetheless you get to work. Service drones are deployed into Bentus's superstructure to find and catalog damage. Aurora constructs a massive gantry that strips away mangled armor and fabricates new plates as damaged systems are patched up. Everyone churns out as many replacement components as they can on their personal fabricators and a steady line of resource drones installs them into Bentus before using their PDAs to make more jury rigged repairs.

You and your friends work as fast as you can both on Bentus and slipping in whatever repairs you can make on your own vessels. The drones are unfortunately left to languish. But they have their purpose too. By the second day T-mat fighters have found your location. By the third Barnacles are arriving in a steady wave, and you set your damaged drones to fend them off.

On the fourth day your time runs out as the barnacles and fighters overwhelm your drones. The Kushan flotilla moves to reinforce them and after sending off the last batch of fabricated components you move to follow them. What follows is a running battle as you fight through a constant stream of T-Mat vessels.

They attack from every direction infiltrating through the corridors of the progenitors wreckage and you soon realize that the nature of the three dimensional labyrinth makes it impossible to try and guard every possible avenue of attack. Instead you strengthen your defensive fields as much as possible and simply weather the storm. Between you and the Kushan battlecruisers you are able to destroy every barnacle that dares stand in your way and make a direct push to the central chamber. Hopefully by intercepting the T-Mat at the source you'll be able to cut off their probing parties.

Fortunately it isn't far and you soon return to the scene of the last battle with the reef ship. You are unsurprised to find that it seems to have repaired much of its own damage in the last few days, but fortunately it doesn't appear to have been able to return to full capacity.

It is however sending out a seemingly unending stream of T-Mat barnacles. You can see they're entering the wreckage at three points, including the one you came out of. The more of them reach Bentus the harder it will be to finish repairs.

[ ] Cover the Primary Entry
You are on the most dark route to Bentus. As long as you guard it not only will you intercept the largest waves of T-Mat, but any of them on other routes will take longer to reach Bentus giving more time between waves for the defenders there.

[ ] Send the Kushan to cover a Secondary Entry
By splitting up you'll be able to cover two of the three access points that the T-Mat are using. This will drastically reduce the number of barnacles that reach Bentus leaving mostly fighters to attack the defenders. The downside is that you'll need to cover the Primary Entry with only your own vessel and the small number of acolytes you can produce in your own hangars.

[ ] Attempt to interdict the Tertiary Entry
Ask the Kushan to send their escorts to cover the smaller entrance that the T-Mat interceptors are using. This will completely stop the flow of T-Mat attackers, but will leave all of you spread dangerously thin.

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Quest Note: This is a short one because I just wanted to get something out to try and crack my writer's block. Unlike my normal posting I plan to try and post another update tomorrow or the day after depending on how the votes look.