[jkalltheway]

You guys have probably had this posted before, but i couldn't find it. Playing Mystery of the trinity on hard mode, is there any way to win?

[Sushi]

As in, save the Trinity? Nope.

[Droid803]

Well, you could kill all the SF Dragons just to prove how good you are but the mission won't end unless the NTC Trinity bites it.

[dragonsniper]

Did this mission take place in a nebula?

[jkalltheway]

Yes it did. and that pretty much answers my question. darnded. What happens if you kill the dragons? Do cruisers jump in?

[Mongoose]

I don't think anything happens, honestly; it would just break the mission.  There's not supposed to be any feasible way to keep the Trinity alive for a full fifteen minutes without the Dragons overwhelming you and taking it out.

[Aardwolf]

Yeah, you're not supposed to win.

[Thaeris]

I remember playing the retail version of the mission before the FSO version. In that iteration, you could stay as long as you liked blasting at the Dragons. In the FSO version, there's a time window open for your escape. This makes the warnings Command gives you more realistic, but changes obvious factors...

On the bright side, you might want to consider getting out pretty quick. If you try to jump out while being shot at, your ship will never slow to 40m/s, thus meaning you're going to die. As far as saving the Trinity goes, isn't it set to blow up after a period of time anyway?

-Thaeris

[BengalTiger]

As far as saving the Trinity goes, isn't it set to blow up after a period of time anyway?

-Thaeris

It is. I've managed to keep it protected good enough to see it lose HP's and explode even though there was not a single SF firing at it.

[Kosh]

In FS1 I was able to (almost) save the Plato, it just stopped at the node and wouldn't jump or do anything, so I had to let up on my raping of the Shivan bomber and let it eventually destroy it.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

In FS1 I was able to (almost) save the Plato, it just stopped at the node and wouldn't jump or do anything, so I had to let up on my raping of the Shivan bomber and let it eventually destroy it.

There's a self-destruct for that in FSPort now, I think. There was one time I protected the Plato and managed to keep it in one piece all the way.

And then it stopped inside the node and blew up.

[Locutus of Borg]

Yup, same thing happened with me. I wanted to see how COOL I was. Loaded up with dumbfires and killed the lot of those Shivans. Eventually, I just sat back and watched as the Plato slowly drained while sitting idly in the node.

[Mongoose]

The Shaitans always seemed to do a much better job of taking it out in FS1 proper, as I don't think I ever had it survive all the way to the node and sit there until the Port.  Must have been some AI change somewhere.

[NGTM-1R]

I got it to the Node in FS1, where it sat for about 15 minutes before the Shivans finally killed it while I was rearming for the nth time...

[azile0]

What about the Taurus? Ever tried protecting that? 

[Locutus of Borg]

the wha

[Droid803]

Does he mean the transport? I don't think it was called Taurus though...

[Scotty]

Vasudan Cruiser in a cargo depot.  Shortly after the Shivans appear.  Destroyed in part by the Tantalus.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

That's the Ramses. The Taurus is the Aten cruiser that was supposed to attack the Plato, but was destroyed by the Shivans (or self-destructed by a SEXP).

[S-99]

I managed to keep the plato alive too, The plato was actually good enough with its turrets to keep the scorpion off of it completely. I killed the shivan, then i killed the plato parked in the node, then i escorted it's escape pod inside the node.

Saving the plato would be a nice bonus objective if it didn't just sit on it's ass in the node.