Mission

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Missions refer to two different gameplay features in Starsector.

Campaign missions

Campaign missions provide a task for the player to complete in exchange for credits, reputation, or other rewards.

Intel missions

These missions can be picked up by being in range of an active comms relay.

Intel Missions
Icon	Name	Pay Range	Type	Notes
	Analyze Entity	30,000¢ - 90,000¢	Exploration	Needs to be accepted in the Intel Screen. May be withdrawed if enough time has passed. Intel gives the star system containing the object. Intel also gives the approximate location of the object within the system.
	Survey Planet	30,000¢ - 90,000¢	Exploration	Needs to be accepted in the Intel Screen. May be withdrawal if enough time has passed. Intel gives the star system of the planet. Intel also gives the required resources to successfully carry out a full survey of the planet.
	Personal Bounty	~40,000¢ - ~350,000¢	Bounty	Intel gives constellation, system type, and planet type where the fleet is hiding around. Intel also gives the approximate size of the fleet, with the biggest ships known.
	System Bounty	1,000¢ - 2,000¢ per Frigate	Bounty	Intel gives afflicted system. Bounty is valid for the entire system and nearby hyperspace.
	Pirate Base	40,000¢ - 80,000¢	Bounty	Intel gives the system where the Pirate Base is located.
	Pather Base	150,000¢ - 300,000¢	Bounty	Intel gives the system where the Pather Base is located.

Generic missions

Main article: Generic missions

These missions can be started by going to a bar on a planet or by acquiring a contact, then visiting their location and calling them.

Galatia Academy missions

Main article: Galatia Academy Missions

These missions can be started by contacting Alviss Sebestyen at the Galatia Academy.

The player needs to first Visit the Academy to gain access to them, and will no longer be able to receive them after completing At The Gates.

Story missions

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These are longer mission lines that can only be completed once per campaign.

Story Missions
Icon	Name	Faction	Notes
	Stabilize the Jump-points	Hegemony	Tutorial mission, can be skipped in the Commander Creation.
	Visit the Academy	Galatia Academy	Special bar mission that encourages the player to visit the Galatia Academy & start its questline.
	Return the Data Core	Galatia Academy	Random encounter mission found while surveying that encourages the player to visit the Galatia Academy & start its questline.
	Extract 'Researcher'	Galatia Academy	1st part of the Galatia Academy questline.
	Kallichore Archive	Galatia Academy	2nd part of the Galatia Academy questline as a duel with Finding Coureuse.
	Finding Coureuse	Galatia Academy	2nd part of the Galatia Academy questline as a duel with Kallichore Archive.
	Project Ziggurat	Galatia Academy	3rd part of the Galatia Academy questline.
	At The Gates	Galatia Academy	4th part & currently the finale of the Galatia Academy questline.
	Red Planet	Independents	Unique bar mission.
	Passage to Volturn	Independents	Unique bar encounter & Easter egg.
	Princess of Persea	Hegemony	Unique Easter egg mission.
	Technology Cache	Independents	Unique random bar encounter.
	The Pilgrim's Path	Luddic Church	1st part of the Luddic Church questline.
	Knight Errant	Luddic Church	2nd part of the Luddic Church questline.
	False Idols	Luddic Church	3rd part of the Luddic Church questline.
	The Usurpers	Sindrian Diktat	1st (& currently only) part of the Sindrian Diktat questline.
	The Scythe of Orion	Luddic Path	Special mission to find something long forgotten & resolve conflicts with the Luddic Path.
	Abyssal Space Oddity	Galatia Academy	Introduction to Abyssal hyperspace and something else.

Main menu missions

Main menu missions are short tactical battles between pre-defined fleets that are accessed from the Missions button in the main menu.

In missions the player has no character skills but is free to refit their fleet with any weapons and hullmods they want.

They provide a way for the player to immediately jump into various combat situations.

The main menu missions currently in the game are:

Main Menu Missions
Icon	Name	Difficulty
	A Fistful of Credits	EASY
	Turning the Tables	EASY
	For the Greater Ludd	MEDIUM
	The Wolf Pack	MEDIUM
	Ambush	MEDIUM
	Hornet's Nest	HARD
	The Last Hurrah	HARD
	Dire Straits	IMPOSSIBLE
	Predator or Prey?	HARD
	Sinking the Bismar	HARD
	Nothing Personal	HARD
	Coral Nebula	MEDIUM
	Forlorn Hope	HARD
	Random Battle	VARIABLE

Notes

• For many campaign missions (particularly exploration missions), a distance indicator will be provided based on the mission target's location (for reference, the system map grid is divided into increments of 1000 units):
  • If the mission target orbits the center of the star system, the target is within any of these circular radii:
    • 0-2999 units away: "located in the heart of "
    • 3000-11999 units away: "located some distance away from the center of "
    • 12000+ units away: "located in the outer reaches of "
  • If the target orbits or is within another non-planet object, that object's distance from the system center is used instead.