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Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak Mission 8 walkthrough for The Cathedral of Kadesh. Protect the Mothership and destroy all attackers.

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Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak Mission 8 walkthrough for The Cathedral of Kadesh. Protect the Mothership and destroy all attackers.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Protect the Mothership (MS) from waves of attackers, focusing on keeping fighters off your capital ships as they engage the worldships.
  2. 2
    Multibeam frigates will appear; capture them (maximum of 17 can be captured) as they can do insane damage to your MS.
  3. 3
    When you destroy the second worldship, the third will retreat. Chase it with capital ships and bombers.
  4. 4
    You will encounter a wall of multibeam frigates with a hidden fighter picket of advanced swarmers. Push your carrier halfway between your position and the frigates.
  5. 5
    Send salvage corvettes to steal the multibeam frigates, using other corvettes to deal with any fighters attempting to save them.
  6. 6
    Harvest dust and steal fuel pods. Fuel pods can only be refitted at the MS.
  7. 7
    Assemble your forces to finish off the final worldship, which will attempt to ram your fleet but has no fighter screen.
  8. 8
    Be aware that the third Kadeshi world ship is unkillable when it begins to retreat and will only be destroyed after you reach the Kar Toba.
Tips
  • Gun corvettes lose their effectiveness against fighters; rely on your anti-fighter wing.
  • The world ship cannot be permanently destroyed; it will hyperspace out and be replaced by a fresh one.
  • You must attempt to hyperspace out to progress, otherwise the worldship will keep hyperspacing in and out.
  • Keep a few support craft to guard the MS, as it is easy to lose it when your attention is elsewhere.
  • When encountering the multibeam frigate wall, retreat slightly before sending in salvage corvettes.
  • The third Kadeshi world ship's retreat is likely a lure to see the Kar Toba.
Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Investigate the Anomaly.
  2. 2
    The alien ship cannot be destroyed by capital ships; this mission tests strike craft usage.
  3. 3
    Harvest resources from small rocks to gather Ru.
  4. 4
    Method 1: Send a scout attack wing on speed burst and evasive maneuvers to outrun missiles. Dock damaged scouts with a support frigate placed in a '+' formation around the alien ship. Attack from the opposite direction of the supporting ships.
  5. 5
    Method 2: Use ion cannon frigates just outside the field's range to destroy ships supporting the alien ship. This method does not allow for capturing all ships within the field.
  6. 6
    Method 3: Similar to Method 1, but use attack bomber wings with a scout wing attacking first to draw missile fire.
  7. 7
    Method 4 (Express Way): Move a scout to be directly opposite the supporting ships on the other side of the alien ship. The controlled ships will fire directly at your scout, hitting the alien ship and disabling it quickly.
  8. 8
    Method 5: Use repair corvettes to escort salvage corvettes to capture each ship after using a scout wing to distract the supporting ships.
  9. 9
    Method 6: Use missile corvettes. Select the alien ship and fire missiles; they take 15 seconds to hit. This method is extremely time-consuming.
  10. 10
    After disabling the alien ship, you can give orders to captured ships, but they may not obey and keep floundering.
  11. 11
    Initiating a hyperspace jump with disabled, floundering ships will cause you to get stuck, requiring an exit from the game.
  12. 12
    Trade with the Bentusi and jump.
Tips
  • This mission can be completed in minutes, but harvesting resources can yield many Ru if patient.
  • The missile destroyer makes fighter attacks more difficult but not impossible.
  • Support frigates should be placed far enough from the alien ship to stay out of its field but close enough to assist scouts.
  • If you take too long on this mission, the ships around the alien ship may start to flounder and roll wildly.
  • Attacking your own ships with missiles incurs a -50% penalty.
Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Immediately select the outer edges of your fleet and position them just outside the Mothership (MS) to avoid radiation damage.
  2. 2
    Watch the cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically) and prepare your moves.
  3. 3
    Place 2-3 repair corvettes inside your carrier.
  4. 4
    Dock two resource collectors with your carrier and head towards a resource patch.
  5. 5
    When the resource collectors are in the yellow (damaged), stop the carrier and dock them to repair.
  6. 6
    Continue to the dust clouds to harvest resources.
  7. 7
    Launch the repair corvettes to repair the carrier in the safe dust zone while harvesting.
  8. 8
    Dock the repair corvettes when done.
  9. 9
    Destroy the Research Outpost.
  10. 10
    Destroy the Carrier before it hyperspaces.
  11. 11
    Destroy all remaining enemies.
Tips
  • Moving fast after the cutscene can prevent any ship loss from radiation.
  • The carrier captured earlier is suitable for this mission.

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