============================================================================= TACHYON: THE FRINGE ============================================================================= Tachyon FAQ (PC) Written by: Orochi K E-mail: kartelkertra caramail com v Final - April 29, 2002 ============================================================================= DISCLAIMER ============================================================================= Copyright 2001-2002, Orochi K. This FAQ is for personal use only. Do not distribute it or use it for profitable purposes. If you want to post this FAQ on a website, contact me first and send me a link to your site. Plagiarism is a crime, just ask. I have no objection on my FAQ being posted on someone else's website but you must give credit where it is due. Also, please keep in mind that under no circumstances, are you allowed to make any changes to this FAQ! It must remain as it is and moreover, you are not allowed to rip off part(s) of this FAQ to put in another one. Tachyon: The Fringe is copyright NovaLogic. ============================================================================= REVISION HISTORY ============================================================================= Version 1.0 on April 23, 2001. - Ships Guide complete. - Completed all Bora Missions. - Completed HINTS AND TIPS Section. Version 1.1 on April 24, 2001. - Completed first 8 Galspan Missions. - Corrected a few mistakes. - Added a few misc stuff. Version 1.2 on April 25, 2001. - Completed all missions. - FAQ complete. Version 1.3 on April 26, 2001. - Corrected various mistakes. - Added hints. Final Version on May 26, 2001. - Last revision. Final Version on April 29, 2002. - E-mail change! ============================================================================= FAQ/WALKTHROUGH ============================================================================= This FAQ only contains the best way to finish the missions and as quickly as possible. I've also tried to include how to get the best weapons but I'm pretty sure I've missed certain of them. I haven't included the first missions because these are pretty straightforward. Instead, I've only covered the ones which will take you to the end of the game and during which the plot evolves. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHIPS GUIDE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |||||||||||||||||||||| GALSPAN SHIPS |||||||||||||||||||||| _______________________________________ | | | ARCHANGEL | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 6 | | | | ACCELERATION : 6 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 6 | | | | ENERGY : 5 | | | | HULL : 5 | | | | SHIELD : 7 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | ORION | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 5 | | | | ACCELERATION : 6 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 5 | | | | ENERGY : 5 | | | | HULL : 4 | | | | SHIELD : 6 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | PEGASUS | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 7 | | | | ACCELERATION : 7 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 7 | | | | ENERGY : 4 | | | | HULL : 2 | | | | SHIELD : 6 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | PHOENIX | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 4 | | | | ACCELERATION : 5 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 4 | | | | ENERGY : 5 | | | | HULL : 7 | | | | SHIELD : 6 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | POSEIDON | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 4 | | | | ACCELERATION : 4 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 4.5 | | | | ENERGY : 6 | | | | HULL : 5 | | | | SHIELD : 5 | |_______________________________________| |||||||||||||||||||||| BORA SHIPS |||||||||||||||||||||| _______________________________________ | | | BATTLEAXE | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 6 | | | | ACCELERATION : 6 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 6 | | | | ENERGY : 7 | | | | HULL : 8 | | | | SHIELD : 6 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | CLAYMORE | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 4 | | | | ACCELERATION : 5 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 4 | | | | ENERGY : 4.5 | | | | HULL : 11 | | | | SHIELD : 5 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | CUTLASS | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 5 | | | | ACCELERATION : 5 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 5 | | | | ENERGY : 5.5 | | | | HULL : 5 | | | | SHIELD : 5 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | MACE | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 7 | | | | ACCELERATION : 7 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 6.5 | | | | ENERGY : 5 | | | | HULL : 6 | | | | SHIELD : 6 | |_______________________________________| _______________________________________ | | | WARHAMMER | |_______________________________________| | | | MAXIMUM SPEED : 5 | | | | ACCELERATION : 5 | | | | PERFORMANCE : 5.5 | | | | ENERGY : 6 | | | | HULL : 10 | | | | SHIELD : 5 | |_______________________________________| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________ | | | BORA MISSIONS | |________________________| MISSION 1: Go forward until you are in the Independence section. Some ships will come out and you need to protect these. When the Integrity shows up, continue fending off the enemy vessels but as soon as your shield is low, get out of here. Don't shoot at the turrets on the big vessel. If you do so, they will aim at you and you are no match for them. When you're done, go back to Alpha and re-enter it. Once you've done this, you're officially a member of Bora and you'll be rewarded with the CUTLASS. MISSION 2: First, equip yourself with fairly strong weapons such as lasers and rockets. You will be attacked by mines. Use your rockets to destroy these. Once they're all destroyed, hang on to get some info from McLean. Return to the base afterwards. MISSION 3: Go to the industrial sector until you see a small cinematic. You must then find a mine and destroy it. If you manage to destroy it, all the others will stop shooting at you. Now, go to the base for an item and go past Alpha until you see the Tycho Brahe. Go to it and watch the door being repaired before returning to Alpha. MISSION 4: Go through the door. Fly as close as you can to the station and locate the powerplant. Destroy it. Once it's destroyed, you'll be attacked. Then, go to the Alpha door and jump in when the Artemis shows up. Be quick or you will be killed. Return to the base afterwards. MISSION 5: Go the the industrial sector to station Drake and you'll get the pack. Go to Wrecktown and you'll be attacked. Deal with those first (you may get a bonus from one of them). Once the battle is over, use Wrecktown to return to the base. You'll change sector as from here. MISSION 6: Go towards Onrald's Barony. When you're approached by bandits, go through the door (the one which is not guarded!. You'll see another 2 bandits, destroy them. You'll again see a whole bunch of ships which you need to destroy. After the battle, take the Laser Core and go back through the door. There are 2 more bandits in here. Destroy them before returning to the base. MISSION 7: Go towards Venture and destroy the powerplants there. When you spot the Laser Core (the Valiant will release it), take it. Then, return to the base. MISSION 8: Go to the station after Point. When you pass through Skav, you'll see a vehicle under attack. Help it by destroying the bandits for a bonus. MISSION 9: Return to Bora to accept this mission. Go past the 2 first zones until you reach Portcullis. Go to the door. You should see the Orpheus along with an escort. Take out the escort first. Be careful not to go near the Orpheus because of the turrets. Once you've eliminated the escort, go into the Orpheus until you reach the engine. Ther is a computer inside which you msut destroy. Return to the base afterwards. MISSION 10: Go into the first and second sector to verify the buoys. Once you've done this, return to your original location and stay there. After some time, you'll be attacked by 6 vessels. Destroy these and you'll complete the mission. It is a quite tough battle but you should make it through, just keep an eye on your shield. MISSION 11: Go on until you see some asteroids. You'll also see Orion with an escort. Destroy only the escort but be careful of the destroyers, they will kill you in an instant. Once the escort is destroyed, attack the 2 main ships. You must be very quick though because they will try to go away. Once they're gone (either way), return to the base. MISSION 12: Go through the first area and you'll be attacked by Demons. Don't try to fight them, just accelerate and get out of here as soon as you can. Once you've gotten ou of the region, you'll see they are still behind you. You can now destroy them. You will be attacked by a couple more Demons, so take care of these too. Now, locate the white laser and take it. Go through the door into the next region and go on until you can return to the base. Don't try to fight here, you will most certainly lose. MISSION 13: Note that you need the EMP in this mission. You won't be able to complete it if you don't have it. When you see the ship, use it to take care of its escort, don't destroy them!! You will now be chased by 2 ships, destroy them. Now, go to the main ship and remain on it for your new destination. Get away from it when it enters in hyper-space and give it to Malkar so that you can return to the base for your money. MISSION 14: You must take Nolt Lieber in this mission. Go on and destroy the ships you'll see eventually. Here, Nolt will talk to the people and convince them to join forces with you. Once he's talked to them, the mission is over. (If you don't take Nolt with you, you will have to fight a huge number of enemies and this is very tough. You will also recieve much money, so it isn't worth it!) MISSION 15: Go through the first sectors and examine the buoys. Keep going forward until you are in Mercy. Here, you'll be attacked by a bunch of chasers. Just destroy them and go back to Freedom to complete this mission. It's that simple! MISSION 16: You have to buy a radiation screen before. When you begin, go forward until you meet the professor. Go onto his path to take the scanner and go towards Dusk. There will be violet arrows to guide you here, just follow thel. You'll eventually see 3 sites. Go onto each one for a scanner and return to the base. MISSION 17: Go on to Champion and destroy the Galspan ships there. You'll again be attacked, just keep on killing the units as they come. Return to the base when it's over. MISSION 18: Take the EW with you (essential for this mission). When you see the drones, fly between them towards the door. Take the item on the way. Go through the door when it opens ane return to the base. MISSION 19: Go towards Ripping and you'll be attacked there. Destroy all of them and you'll meet Susan Bradley. When she shows up, stay close to the ship and continue shooting at the enemies to complete the mission. MISSION 20: The final mission. Protect the Delivrance here. Don't worry, the other Bora ships will help you. When you can attack the Hephaetus, do so. Keep attacking it until it loses its shield. Once you've achieved this, keep shooting at it while avoiding the turret's attacks. You'll eventually defeat it and complete the mission. ________________________ | | | GALSPAN MISSIONS | |________________________| MISSION 1: Go to the Independence zone until you see 3 ships. Destroy them. Another ship will then appear and you'll need to destroy that one too. When it's over, return to the base. MISSION 2: Destroy the Cutlass, there is a couple of them. Then go towards Farsight. When you see Burrow, shoot at it quickly and fly near it for the scanner. Next, destroy the plant until Valor Wing shows up. You now need to fight Valor Wing (be careful of your shiled). Go back to the base when it's over. MISSION 3: Go towards Neureus. You'll be attacked there. Destroy the Battleaxes as quickly as possible. And return to the base. You don't need to fight the Cutlass except for the money. MISSION 4: Make sure you have EMP missiles and lasers first. Go to where you'll see the drones but don't shoot at them yet! Instead, go near Lakita and use your EMP on her. When you've done this, you can now destroy all the drones and return to the base. MISSION 5: Go to Malkar's Barony. You'll see a vessel here. You can chase it and attack it if you want but it's not necessary. Return to the base once you've done. MISSION 6: There's a neat trick to complete this mission quickly. Just remain near the Cephius all the time as it destroys your enemies' shields and makes things more easier for you. In the first sector, shoot at those which come towards you. You don't have to bother about the others, they'll destroy each other. Be quick in destroying the Warhammers if you don't wanna die. The mission is complete once the Cephius has taken all the Ripstars. You can now return to the base. MISSION 7: Wait for the orders to go in the zone with the satellites. Destroy these and go forward where there'll be a bunch of Warhammers. Fight them and the mission's over. MISSION 8: When you reach Aquila, destroy the escort and go onto it. You'll then receive orders to desactivate Demeter. From here, go to the next zone and attack the powerplant. You'll now need to stop Demeter who's trying to get away. You don't need to catch it but I think you get more money if you do so. Return to the base for your money in either case. MISSION 9: First of all, beware of the Bora vessels there. I nearly died when they suddenly decided to attack me. You'll see a fight going on, join them but be careful on the way! At one point, a couple of Warhammers will show up (don't worry, you'll hear them first). When you go towards them, they will try to get away. You need to be very quick or you won't catch up with them. Then, you can help the others destroy the bandits although I don't see the point in doing this. Either way, return to the base. MISSION 10: Go forward until you come across the buoys and the asteroids. Here, you'll obtain the KC2 crystal which is one of your mission objectives. Be careful of the Ripstar though while you are inspecting it, use the post-combustion to avoid its attraction. When you're done, return to Canopus and destroy all the Daggers. Release the crystal when they've all been destroyed and return the base. MISSION 11: Take a lot of EMP missiles first if you want to succeed. Now, go to Onrald's Barony. You will see the Alexander vessel. Destroy its shields and desactive it with an EMP missile before moving on. You'll see the Manacle which is being attacked, protect it and destroy the other ships. You can then retunr to the base. MISSION 12: This one is the easiest of the lot. You main objective is to escort Aquarius. Just stick to it and destroy the enemies along the way. Don't ever leave it alone and you should make it through without much difficulty. MISSION 13: Pretty much like Mission 12 except that you msut escort 6 pirates this time. However, they'll attack you when you're out of the sector; destroy them and return to the base. MISSION 14: Go through Swarm until you reach Silicon. Locate the radars and destroy them until you get a message stating you've destroyed the one which controlled the drones. Take a drone quicky and get out of the zone. If you stay in the region too much, the drones will explode. Return to the base. MISSION 15: There are 3 ships and you need to know which one is the spy first. Well, the one you should aim for is the Quasar. There is a Cargo near it; take it quickly and get out of here. Everyone will shoot at you and you're no match for them (do I really have to tell you this!!?). Then, return to the base. MISSION 16: Locate Fortitude. Your objective is to destroy it. To do this, first destroy the generator beneath it and your task will be much simpler. Then, simply unload all your ammo on it to destroy it and the mission will be over. MISSION 17: Stay near the 3 buoys until other ships arrive. Among them is the Cerberus which you need to protect. Once it's over and Cerberus goes on, return to the base. MISSION 18: The final mission and a very tough one indeed!! Take a lot of missiles with you, you won't go far without them...When the Hephaestus is attacked, protect it. Stay near it for good results. When the Bora ships back off, go to the next zone to Liberty. Take Bradley with you and get off quickly or you'll explode with everything else. Return to Draconis Ripstar and avoid the enemies. You can fight them if you want but it's only a waste of time and you run the risk of being shot down if you do so. Go onto Zeus and the mission will be complete. You've just beaten the whole game!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HINTS AND TIPS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below are certain tips which should help you throughout the game: - Try to master all the weapons, Each one is useful in its own way and you'll need all of them throughout the missions. - In the missions where neutral vessels become your enemies afterwards, you can do the following to avoid fighting them. Just put mines on them while they are still neutral. This way, you just have to trigger the mines when they start attacking you. - The fights in the Arena enable you to earn a lot of money. Don't forget about these if you want better weapons and ships. - Don't waste your ammunition. Certain ships can be easily destroyed using your lasers, use those instead. - The destroyers are very strong. Avoid them at all costs and don't ever think of fighting against them, you don't stand a chance. - Try and take part in the special battles, you'll earn a lot of money which will enable you to acquire more weapons and vessels. - When fighting against a large group of enemies and your shield turns low, try to hide or run away until it charges up again. Engaging such a battle with little or no shield is pointless! - Do not waste your missiles on lone enemies, you will desperately need them if a group of enemies show up. ============================================================================= ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ============================================================================= Special thanks go to: - NovaLogic For creating this great game. - GameFAQS For posting this guide. ============================================================================= THE END ============================================================================= Copyright 2001-2002, Orochi K. 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