Use manual jumps for either specific mission goals or to skip the waiting line. Go to the starmap (toggle up or shift-M). Zoom in completely on the jump point you want to jump from, preferably already being there before initiating manual jump. If you are completely zoomed in you'll notive that the text "zoom in" is now "jump destination". Select it and you can now select the jump destination using left/right, the actual destination is in the top left of the cornerm, text only. You will not see it on the starmap! Press "fire" to select the jump. If all goes right you're back in cockpit view with the jump icon glowing. You're all set up, just fly through the Lagrange point.

Before taking your grandmothers ship out for the last mission in act 0 - strip it of all weapons and gadgets. You get to use them 15 years later...

A. The warehouse is indeed the Solan Liberty Warehouse, but there was a problem in the mission which prevented it from working. Install the F14.6 patch to fix the problem.

A. Install the F14.6 patch.

A. Install the F14.6 patch.

A. New items in the inventory have a + symbol next to them.

A. You can only save the game at the base. You can do this by pressing Escape at the Base menu, and selecting Save from the menu. The option is in the quit game menu.

A. Originally the shield synchroniser was going to allow you to mount a second Light LDA in parallel with an existing shield (actually giving you a reason to trade for light LDA's ) so you could see you had multiple shields, but this was simplified to the syncronsier automatically adding a second lighter shield, making that facing better defended ( basically altering the base shields hold and reliability).

A. See how there's a dedicated slot for "Countermeasures" when you're configuring your ship loadout? Well, interestingly enough, if you go into the configuration of one of your main missile launchers (you know, the one loaded with LDSI missiles and stuff), you'll find you can load Countermeasures into that. From there, you can launch them at will!

A. Never fear! Thanks to the brilliant dev team, they implemented code that takes you back to your base very quickly. Simply target the "Lucrecia's Base" waypoint, and, presuming you're a large distance from the nearest L-Point or from the base itself, hit the F8 key. You'll immediately teleport home shortly after your LDS drive engages. Handy!

A. Hold down the "thrust override (forward)" key (by default it's W.. of course, if you were man enough to change your configuration, you're probably not even reading this) and take off! Watch for small, fast moving objects, they tend to leave a nasty smear.

A. You don't have to stick around and wait for Jafs to load up. If you fly away, jump out, or return to base he will pick up whatever you've tagged, up to a maximum of 12 pods.

A. Each cargo pod of ammunition (cannon rounds or missiles) contains enough for several loads. When you return to base your ship is automatically reloaded, so a cargo pod of 40 harrowers can keep you stocked up for several missions.

Later in the game, when you can have several missile launchers with internal magasines you'll be able to carry a lot more missiles and get through them a lot faster.

A. Sorry, but once you've been moved to the Gagarin cluster, you can't go back.

A. You need to download and install the latest patch. F14.6 patch.

A. To get a new ship near the beginning of Act 2 you must perform a mission for the MCA. To get this mission you will need to speak to Frederick Jackson at Jackson's Yard in Coyote, and follow his instructions to assist the Ambassador at the Brotherhood Exile Ark in Santa Romera. After you have saved the Ambassador, he will email thanking you and send you details to meet Indigo at the Ritz. When you get there, Indigo will behave rudely, ignore this and go back to base. You will receive an apology from her and a request for help. Help her and you'll get your ship.

 

A. You need to complete these missions, and perform these tasks to get the pilots:

• Trouble At the Ranch: Once the mission has been completed you will need to travel to the Eureka System Administration and talk to the Third Way Elder - Upon docking to the station, select the second dialogue option twice and the Third Way will pledge pilots to the cause
   
• Meet The Oman: Once this mission is complete, you need to head to Daru-el-Salam, the Oman Headquarters around the planet Jahim. Upon docking to the station, you can just ask for pilots and the Oman will help
   
• High Noon: Once this mission is complete, you need to head to Sheriff Kane's station - the Firefrost System Administration that is around the planet Sunflower, a moon off Gefjon, which is around the Sun Firefrost III. Upon docking, you can request pilots

A. Wait untill the tugs finished grabbing the survivors. Then you are told to formate with the LOR Platform, and then you should take off.

A1. [by The Merciful]. You're not the only one. Fortunately, here's the solution to it. Note that you'll probably have to rotate your craft in order to get the proper perspective on how this should be. The abbreviations should be self-explanitory.
 

AP	WE	GO	CO
CO	YA	AP	WE
WE	GO	CO	YA
YA	AP	WE	GO

Key:
Key: AP - Apes WE - Weasels GO - Goats CO - Cows YA - Yaks

 

 

A2. [by Dr Barnowl]. For those that wish to complete the challenge without resorting to the solution, but are destroying the cargo pods before they finish, a hint. Direct all the training vessels power towards shields or engines, and pull back to about 3km from the pods. This lowers the damage done by each hit from 10% to 3%, giving you 3 times as many mistakes to make.

 

A1. There are numerous ways around this the best one i.e. the one that's worked for most, is to use your LDS drive at all times and use Autopilot approach to waypoint (this is so you don't overshoot and loose your way and time). You'll whiz through the asteroid belts and pass the Gunstars. Position yourself as close to the start of the trial position as you can. The last issue on this attempt, is that when the approach slows down before reaching the waypoint (as it does), you're open to Gunstar attack. You'll need at this moment to switch off autopilot and LDS manually to the waypoint. Once there you can hit auto approach to the next waypoint.

The other option which is harder is to use the asteroids as protection, if you play it right; a) the Gunstars won't see you and b) the asteroids will protect you. The downside to this is time. Also, if you can, arm yourself with disruptor missiles to confuse the Gunstars.

Wait to do this series of tests until you have the ship's self defence program, which you should get early on if you play your cards right.

A2. [by Celegorm]

What happens is a brutal display of just how powerful your ship can be, and how bad the autopilot is at fireing weapons, although with turretfighters loaded with rockets for the cunning trial, they make really short work of the gunstars. and its amazing how fast they dust off the hunter seeker mines, long before you can even get close to the starting point (rapidfire PBC's range is outside that of the starting waypoint).

Reason being is this. The way the AI is set up, as soon as a target is hit by a target with more of a potential for destroying it, it changes its primary target. The way the self defence program works, is whenever you switch to a REM ship, it defends it automatically. Release an REM fighter, and two turret fights, and you suddenly have yourself a nice little fighting force.

So, by adding those two components together you have a sparkelingly easy ride. all you have to do is fly from point A to B. piece a cake. The ship will blow the gunstars out of the water in the same succession that you move down teh field, and i rarely took many hits. I had more trouble getting from A to B inside the timeframe.

By doing this the only gunstar that ever was able to land a hit on me was the very last.

The downside to this is that when the gunstars are destroyed the asteroids are pushed away, so you can no longer use them to turn off the gunstars. The upside to this though, is that its a lot easier to fly from A to B.

A. [by Jumbo]

1. DONT go to the start waypoint!
2. Dock with the pod... easy because the mine are not activated yet.
3. Fly to the start waypoint and be congratulated for your courage.
4. Allow yourself a cunning chuckle he he.

A1. Drop out of LDS about 90KM from the base, and continue forward on normal thrust until you pick up the mines. Notice how as soon as they spot you they start coming after you (at 800m/s no less)? Let em get about 50km from you then start backing up... just keep backing up until the pirate's base is like 200km away, then engage LDS and head for the base. The mines are now too far away to notice you and you can completely ignore them .

 

A. Basically you steal the blueprints for yourself. Take them back to your base, use the blueprints to make several pods of Seeker Mines, then, drop off a pod of mines at Lucifuge.

 

A. While this problem is supposedly fixed in the patch, some people just possibly might still have it. Here's how I got through it. I went to the Blue Note in Firefrost. Chatted with the girl. I then returned to my base and saved, re-launched, and moved on to the Sheriff's place at Gefjon. After getting a waypoint to the Posse meeting, I went back home and saved AGAIN, then went to the Posse. I completed the mission provided there, went home, and managed to successfully save. It's a lot of trouble, I know, but if the patch didn't fix it for you, this is the best fix I've got.

 

A1. Once you receive your orders from the freighter convoy. Fly to St Georges L-Point. When you get there, manually set your jump destination in your navigation to the Toad Skin L-Point and fly through the St George L-Point manually i.e. do not use autopilot.

You'll get one hell of a reception, but that's all down to your fighting skills.

A2. [by Krunk]The problem is that the autopilot thinks it is quicker to get to toadskin via the L-Point you mentioned, rather than any other route. It doesn`t realise that going there causes mission failure. Heres the solution...

Take off and engage the autopilot for the waypoint you have been given. When you get to the first L-Point along the way, take a look at the jump destination which scrolls by in the text area at the bottom left of the screen. Take a look where that jump would put you. If its taking you along part of the correct route to toadskin, all is well. Let the autopilot do its thing. If its taking you along the path to the wrong L-Point, disengage the autopilot.

Go to the starmap and select the L-Point you are near to. Select the "Jump Destination" option and cycle through the destinations until you get one on the path to Toadskin. Press enter to select that jump destination. You should have the capsule jump icon to the right of your reticle by now, with the destination you selected printed next to it. Fly through the L-Point to do a manual capsule jump.

Now you can fire up the autopilot again. Just keep monitoring it along the way to check that it isn`t taking you in the wrong direction, and correct it if you need to. Usually, after one or two manual jumps it gets the correct route, because after you`ve been following the route for a while it becomes the quickest way to Toadskin anyway.

A. Brotherhood Ark in the Santa Romera system near the planet Faith look out for the planet Brotherhood.

 

A. After you have docked with the Ambassador's ship move away slowly and he will give you the IFF.

A. Completing this mission is optional to the progression of Act 2. There are no known side-effects to not completing this mission.

Alternatively, you can use the following workaround to complete the mission while avoiding the crash: Jump from Pestur to Dadgda Alpha Prime to trigger the mission, then immediately jump back to Pestur without destroying the mines. Wait in Pestur for the mission to complete (the "destroy mines" objective will fail, but the remaining objectives will complete and Jarvis will thank you).

 

A. Get Jaffs to bring it back. Also, if you are using the Cutscene Mod, try switching it off for this mission.

 

A. To get this mission you first need to ensure you have collected your pilots (see Where can I find the pilots?) and completed Act 2 - Mission 7. Then fly to Greenback in Hoffers Wake first before the Waypoint " ..... Rendesvous Point" appears in your contact list.

 

A. Remember your e-mails? Go to Firefrost system, and head for the closes distress signal to find some Marauders to follow. Do not engage, but formate one to follow it to a L-point. Keep it targeted while it jumps, and you should get its destaination due your capsule space tracker. Make sure your ship has the tracker. You get it with the advanced patcom.

 

A. You need to use a maintenance flitter.

 

A. There are two events that have to occur in order for "trigger flags" to be set and the mission to be successful. The first is that when you get to the Marauder HQ, you have to approach to within 10KM of the base. Smith will come onscreen to say that a flitter could move the antenna array from its current location to the comsec.

Good plan except you need a flitter. Therefore you now need to find a shipyard with some flitters lying around. If you search the other waypoints, you will come across the shipyard. Some flitters are parked nearby although far enough away from other activity that you can approach and steal one without anyone coming over to investigate. Before you can do this Smith & Clay have to "notice" these flitters (with the "trigger" conversation or else the flitter theft won't work). After you get the flitter and tow it back to the Marauder HQ, you have to remote pilot it to the antenna array. I found the best thing to do was to wait for the corvettes and interceptors to jump out and then waste the remaining maintenance flitters with long range missiles I had fitted to my comsec.

Then you don't have to waste time "timing it right." It's going to take a VERY long time for the flitter to move the antenna over to the comsec anyway without worrying about the alarm being raised.

Dock the antenna and move it to the L-point. once there, Smith will inform you that he still doesn't have enough power to transmit the signal. A field generator would do the trick, and if you scouted all the waypoints then you will have chanced upon the supply depot already.

That's good because you're going back there. The mission here is to indentify the pods holding the field generators.

You want to dock with a pod containing the field generators without the 'pod inspectors' catching you. After you dock, a field generator will be loaded onboard your ship. Undock, and get the hell out of there.

Go back to the antenna array at the Faust Alpha L-point (as it is now known) and as soon as you are in range, Smith will transmit the signal. The rescue ship will show up and mission complete.

In each sub-mission the conversation cutscenes have to run. IF they don't the flags won't be set, and nothing will happen when you take the actions that would complete the objectives

A. Target the blue lights on the Cruiser. Best weapon for this job; either Cutting Beam or Gatling Cannon or both.

 

A. [by HLP-Reg-PhReAk] Set your loadout to the following:

Heavy corvette:
3 pulse-acc pbc
1 mining beam
2 neutron pbcs
1 pack of disruptors
2 packs of S-R LDSi (I only use missiles i can build)
seeker missiles

1. Goto meeting waypt, get wingmen tell them to guard you and turn your active sensors and signal disruptor on, fly to maraduer HQ.
2. At the marader HQ - cut off autopilot when LDS is shutoff. fly real close to the station and use your wingmen to guard you. Turn aim assist off and use the pulse-acc pbc against the gunstars. they should be taken care of in no time. Clean up and get away from the station when it blows. Wait for wingmen to autorepair (if needed). Fly to the depot
3. I never had problems with the medusa being destroyed in LDS.. it may be me.. Tell the wingmen to guard the destroyer and just keep going after the maraduers. Kill some cargo pods with the mining beam once in a while. Make sure that your wingmen don't keep protecting the medusa after the station is destroyed, they will follow it into LDS. This was the easiest for me. After this objective is completed, wait for repair and goto the shipyard.
4. When you reach the shipyard head for the cruiser and select the mining beam, have your wingmen guard you, set all power to weapons, and blast away at the connectors. They should be destroyed when the beam energy approaches 0%. Once the cruiser is freed, pop an LDSi in it's arse and use the neutrons on it. It goes boom at the same time as the station does. Head back to the rendezvous point.
5. When the cutscene ends, switch power to engines and get behind the carrier and disrupt it. Tell all wingmen to attack it and rebalance power. You could also disrupt a cruiser to make your job easier. Maraduer/Maas fleet goes boom you are hero.

A1. Try using the Cutting Beam or Twin Gattling Guns. Or better still a DeathBlow Missile.

A2. Zoom in closely on the INSIDE of the jump accelerator. Look closely at the center area of the blue glows. See the little objects sticking out? Use whatever means possible to destroy them. I personally let 'em have it with a Cutting Beam and PBC combo.. the PBC was a bit difficult to get any confirmed hits with, but the combination was able to do the job nicely. Once all of the blue glows are gone, you'll have completed that objective.

A3. Simple. See the blue glow thingies? Zoom in on them, and you'll notice a bunch of little objects in the middle of them. Whip out your biggest gun (A Cutting Beam did the trick for me) and unload into it untill it explodes. Move on to the next one, and the next, untill they're all gone. Of course, if you haven't figured it out already, these are located on the INSIDE of the jump accelerator.

A4. Another tactic that others have suggested/adopted (including the infamous Stephen Robertson, who you should all bow down to right this second) is to try using Deathblow REM missiles on the thing if your best beam weapon is somehow proving defective and just isn't doing the trick.

A. [by the Sinner] You'll need a good weapons loadout option to do this. Load up with at least 4 Deathblow missiles, and LSDi missles. As the first wave attacks, launch a deathblow missile. You can destroy all but 2 corvettes in each wave with the deathblow. The LDSi missiles are used as counter measures.

Firing one at the freighter will cause any missiles in detonation range to be destroyed. Since missile fire is the biggest danger to the transport in this mission it works perfectly. Repeat the procedure for each wave.

Incidentally you can leave all 3 escorts docked to the freighter for the duration of the battle. You should have no trouble finishing off the 2 corvettes from each wave. Typically I tell my t-fighters to engage one(pulse accl pbcs) while I engage the other. Don't be afraid to unload 4-6 deadshot missles on each one. I also seed the area around the freighter with 10 seeker mines in the event a corvette gets through.

A. The trick is not to hang around Jafs as you'll get swarmed. Autopilot approach or manual LDS to each alien as it appears. Just 2 or 3 shots from a pair of AM PBC's does the trick just fine. In fact only AM weapons appear to do the job.

A. Obviously this mission might be a bit confusing for some, as they would often jump to the Ursus Metals Mine, only to find nothing there except a ship called "Prospector" floating around. Turns out this little ship is your actual target. Pump it full of hot steaming plasma for a bit and watch as it coughs up the cargo!

A. There is no MAAS wharehouse in Liberty. Find the Solan Warehouse instead. This was a glitch in the Script objective [see Bugs & Fixes].
 

A. Dock to it, by pressing F8. As you would dock to stations. Then go to the waypoint of the guy who wants it.

A. Most likely you're either having trouble getting to the reactor core itself, or are getting your arse pounded on the way out of the area. I'll cover on how to appropriately handle both.

To get near the core, play it stealthy and careful. As you approach your target, note carefully the positions of the patrol ships in relation to the core. They should be at least 2 KM from it, more if possible of course. Also try to position your approach so that the core is between you and the station, precisely.

Your getaway is simple. So simple, in fact, that you barely need anything aside from your basic thrusters, drive, and LDS system. Once Clay says that you've got the shiny new Fuel Rods, hit "U", aim away from the reactor (preferably also away from the nearby station), and hold down the "W" key. Oh, and I'd advise you to have your barf-bags handy, because your little Storm Petrel's got one hell of a kick to it. Once you're clear of the LDSI field (which should be roughly 3-5 seconds), target your home base and fly off to install your new toys and turn off those depressing emergency lights.

A. Make sure your autopilot is off, and use your thruster override key ( W ) to boost your ship away from the junkyard. When your ship is outside the LDSi filed, engage your LDS drive and run away in LDS.

A. This is purely a site seeing tour. Do not dock to Haven.

A. You need to make a name for yourself as a pirate, so go and pirate some cargo. When you've pirated enough cargo someone will contact you.

A. Generally speaking, you need to reach a quota of 50 cargo pods before the communication lines start buzzing. You got to be good for the Stepsons to take note.

A. the "unkown" is the cargo you're looking for.

A. Go re-load your Autosave slot, be sure to nail the transport first, THEN worry about the escorts. It's also interesting to note, if you want to play this really smart, that if you load up on seeking missiles then you can stand off and pound the escorts into rubble, since they don't turn hostile until you close in on the transport. Minor glitch in the mission AI.

 

A. First try completing the deal through the Trading screen. If this fails, don't worry, this mission isn't critical and you can carry on about your business.

A1. It all comes down to your basics. See the cargo cache of cute high explosive thingies nearby? Gee golly, certainly would be a shame if they went off nearby the Station, wouldn't it? ..Okay, enough screwing around, dock to one of those suckers. Get a good line-up on the Station, back up a little if you need to, then fly STRAIGHT for the station. Make sure your speed is at least... oh, 800km/s (just to be safe). When you're just about on top of the station, smack the U key, aim down (or up), and watch that sucker blow! Repeat the process if you need for the Gunstar (assuming it wasn't taken out already), or just do what I did and use your T-Fighters to knock the thing out from range.

 

A2. [by Dr Barnowl] If you pack some mining charges, one of these detnoted against the gunstar will i) do about 25% damage to it ii) Impart a nice steady 300 metres/s velocity to it. After 30 seconds or so, the gunstar is no longer a threat, because it floats helplessly out of range. You have to be quite careful , because mining charges have a range of almost 10km, and the gunstar has a range of about 9.8km. If you wait long enough, it floats out of sensor range and Jafs will be happy to pick up the pods once the base is down.

A. Without a doubt one of the most sought-after mission-help-requests thus far. The mission where you have to retrieve a pair of prototype Maas fighters suffers from vagueness, confusion, and some massive tightness in the scripting that fails you if you don't do everything JUST right. Based on experience of going through this mission at least 6 times successfully (both in the demo and full version), I offer the following information:

First, one area of confusion is what exactly one should bring the trader in the junkyard in exchange for the Maas IFF. Head back to your base and search for a piece of cargo in your inventory that has a recycling value of at least 60. If you don't have one.... aquire one Attach it to your ship (through the Loadout menu's rather obvious "Add Cargo" button) and haul it off to the good lad to get your shiny new IFF.

Now, once you reach the Maas Base and Jafs has come to a full stop, remote link to the tug called "Drone" (Shift+R) and have it dock with the cargo pod called "Useful Looking Cargo". Fly the pod over to the other pod called "Fighters'. This is the part where most people get lost. You need to hit the F2 key from here (making sure the "Fighters" pod is targetted) and line up the aft of your ship to be facing the "Fighters" pod. Get as close as possible to it, then smack "U". This should all be set up so that the "Useful Looking Cargo" pod smacks into the "Fighters" pod and takes it's place. Then, dock with the "Fighters" pod, and, taking a round-about route back to your ship (not sure if this is entirely necessary, but better safe than sorry), unload the pod into the Refuse Dump. If all goes to plan, you should be able to terminate the REM link safely. Jafs will undock your tug and pick up the "Fighters" pod. Formate with him as he jumps out, and head on home. Congrats, you did it!

A1. You must swap the 'useful looking pod' for the fighter pod. To do this you'll need to remote-link to the drone and use it to dock to the 'useful looking pod' and place it right next to the fighter pod, then move the fighter pod ( using the drone ) next to the garbage dump waypoint. Jafs will then pick up the pod, and you can run away from the base.

Simply done:

1. Gain clearence (IFF)
2. undock from jafs in the debris field
3. REM-link to the drone
4. Use the drone to dock to the useful cargo pod
5. take the useful pod to the fighter pod
6. undock the drone from the useful pod and dock with the fighter pod
7. take the fighter pod back to jafs.
8. un-REM-link from the drone.
9. leave

A. A good way to do this is to use your t-fighters to attack one of the ships while you launch about two missiles at each corvette when that has happened they will stop attacking E.R Oregon & they will come after you.Just dispatch all of the targets then he will give you a waypoint to the Marauder cache name mining beacon.

When you get there you should see a freighter, try to destroy it first so that you can recieve some Gatling cannons as well as LDS Class 2. Then just take care of the escorts & the mission will be finished

A. It's a bug/typo. What you actually get is a gatling cannon, not assault cannon.

A1. If you've deactivated 5, then the last one should be pretty easy. Stand off from it just outside its gun range while you auto-repair to full strength. Then wait 'till it's offline, and use manual thrust override to get in behind it and activate the docking autopilot at the last moment to dock.

 

A2. The trick is to dock AFTER you have passed the Gunstar. Say for the first one, you target the one in front of your ship, then wait until the Gunstar turns yellow.

Hit U to undock then hit the W key heading towards the Gunstar. Sail 2 km past the Gunstar then hit F8 to dock. You should be able to dock safely, and wait for your shield to recharge. Now since you dock at the OTHER side of the gunstar, you will not be hit (one user reports that he was hit while docking, true, but I think he docks on the wrong side of the gunstar).

A3.[by FAMS] Stay docked to the station and just take in the pattern of the power failures. You will notice that they all arm and then one by one go offline until they are all offline and then repeat (and rinse if needed). Just before they all go offline undock (this give an extra few seconds), use W to accelerate, let go of W when you about 1/2 to 3/4 way there, swing behind the gunstar (ie make the gun star between you and the station). Engage auto dock. Select the next gun star and wait till they're nearly all offline, Fly towards that one and do the same. You might want to fire a disruptor at it, just in case it comes online again. Repeat the above, make sure you're fully repaired before you zot off again. If you get hit while docking to a GS push the joystick up, it seems to work! Dunno why.

A. Go for a gunstar just as it's turning off, and boost towards it using thruster override. The docking port is on the rear of the gunstar. When you've docked stay there until you're fully repaired, then choose your moment and thrust towards the next gunstar. Disrupters are very useful in this mission if you have them, as you can disrupt the gunstars to prevent them firing on you.

A1. Take out the destroyer before it launches fighters. Take your T-Fighters and your wingmen and order them to attack it, then go in and attack it too. Ignore the other ships that are destroying the gunstars

 

A2. I hid inside hoffners gap when it came after me, and lured it within range of my gunstars. It was unable to hit me with its cannons, but kept trying. Those 4 gunstars i'd activated, as well as my wingmen, made short work of it. This method might be safer.

A1. OK once your at the dumping waypoint, undock with the drone, then target it then the Rem link should work.

A2. When you go to the meeting point to pick up the drone, use the "cruise control (F6)" all the way. Sometimes the script get's outta wack if you deviate just a tiny little bit from the plan. I also discovered that if you get Marauders on an inbound vector, the ship which had the drone won't release it to you properly. This may not be the case for everyone, but it was to me. The only way I could ever get those ships to properly release those drones to me, was when I had a clear scope. And were at the excact designated spot when it was released. Kinda drag, but it got the script going as planned.

REM link the drone and dock it with your tug. Disconnect the drone and take off. When you get close enough to your destination, you should get the "munitions dump" waypoint. Now, just select it and hit F6. When you get there, and your tug comes to a complete stop, try to REM link your drone. At this point, the REM link should normally work. If not, try to undock it 1st. If it still doesn't work, go back there and kick it loose from the docking collar.

A. How to do LoR mission:

1. When you go to the area, officer starts to talk to you. Say you are a friend of the captain and you are to visit him.
2. Undock the drone.
3. REM it next to habitation module.
4. Watch the cutscene where the droid cuts the module.
5. Dock with the LoR.
6. REM it to meetin waypoint.

A. Lucretia took the means of finding it's location to her death. But, however, she DID give you a little speech from beyond the grave when you first found the base, didn't she? On a completely unrelated note, it's sure a good thing she stuck a date and time on that Will of hers...