Missions

Training Missions

These are a set of five missions that explain the rudiments of the game. New players are strongly encouraged to take them before asking for help. They stop appearing in your mission tab once you have attained a few levels.

Combat Missions

These missions are available to raise your Combat and Light/Heavy weapon license levels through observed combat situations by your respective nations.

Beginner Combat Practice

• An officially-sanctioned training mission by your nation's government; go out and kill low-level bots (Collectors to be specific) for combat and weapons xp. This mission is replaced by Advanced Combat Practice once you reach combat level 3.

Advanced Combat Practice

• An officially-sanctioned training mission by your nation's government; hunt bots from a list for combat and weapons xp.

Border Patrol

• For Itani and Serco only, this mission is only available in Betheshee, Deneb, Eo and Geira Rutilus, at light and heavy weapon licences 4. Fight and kill 15 players (or NPCs in Centurions, depending if any enemy players are actually involved in the mission) in Deneb C-10 to recieve 1500/1500/1500/0/0 exp. When fighting in groups, you get about 1500 xp in combat, light, and heavy weapons, for each person in the group. Ex: 3-person group = 4500/4500/4500/0/0 gain in xp but the mission requires you to kill 45 bots. Depending on each person in the group, the mission requires 15 bots per person. The npc ships stats are 20/15/15/0/0 and fly Centurions MkII's.

Assassination

• You are asked liquidate two 'hight priority targets,' one from each enemy nation. Station Guards and Strike Force quality.

Killing Spree

• This is a somewhat broken mission that was one of the first missions made with the new architecture. Nobody knows how it made it to the production server, or why it's still there.

Hive Skirmish

• In most systems bots re-spawn quickly after they are destroyed. Hive presence can be temporarily eradicated in certain sectors, however, by taking this mission from Xang Xi Stations. After signing up for the mission you are asked to boom bots in a specific sector. For each bot you kill you are given, in addition to the normal weapons xp, combat xp and credits determined by its 'difficulty.'

• This mission can also be used to locate queens and a leviathan by identifying the sector in which the most hive bots are reported. This isn't completely reliable, however.

Escort

• You accompany an npc convoy, fending off potential threats. Rewards include modest trade and combat xp, credits determined by the sale of the goods you accompanied, and a small boost of your standing with the destination's faction.

Trade Guild

These missions ask you to trade on behalf of a faction. It is not as profitable as trading for yourself but it is a much quicker way to acquire trade xp. Faction standing will also be increased with trade missions. Generally the higher the completion payment for a mission the higher the faction standing and xp increase you will get.

Some cargo moving missions are labeled '(bulk.)' This means that there are likely more widgets to move than you can ship in a single trip.

Delivery

• One-way cargo run.

Special Delivery

• Deliver a unique (non purchasable) item to its destination.

Procurement

• Buy widgets from another station and bring them back. You will be reimbursed. This, especially when 'bulk', is regarded as the most efficient way to raise faction standing.

Retrieval

• Retrieve widgets from another station and bring them back.

Minerals

• Mine or plunder some premium ore of the stations asking and deliver it to the station.

Prospecting Missions

There are 120 Prospecting missions scattered around the universe, about four in each of the systems. For each mission you identify (with a mineral scanner) 30 roids containing a mineral the station chooses.

• Take advantage of the fact that these missions are very open in what you can do; you are not required to return to your starting station, you can mine from the roids you scan, you can even log off and continue the mission when you return.
• Because the mission only picks commonly found mineral types (Aquean, Carbonic, Ferric, Silicate) and infrequently slightly less common ones (Ishik, VanAzek, Xithricite), you should scout out the area around the station before you start the mission if you want to make it faster. Accept missions where the selected mineral is in a majority of the roids outside the station if you can. Remember: leaving and entering the station will update the prospecting mission and possibly change the type of ore required.

Scrap Yard

Collect scrap metal and return it to the station so they can begin a construction project.

Recon/Spy

There are four missions in this set. They are all finicky.

Secret Meeting

• Your mission is to use a scanner to find a particular ship within a pack of UIT NPCs roaming a randomly-picked sector.

Anomalous Materials

• Kill 'marked' DenTek collectors, but don't let the one with the chemicals touch anything or the mission will fail! You will be given a scanner and a sector to go to. Use the scanner to determine whether the bot is one that counts towards the mission's goal or is carrying the chemicals.

Hostage Situation

• Hostages have been taken. You must free them by finding the ship in which they are imprisoned and lowering its armor to less than some percentage.

Mining Tutorial

This mission is available at mining stations. It explains the mining system in Vendetta Online, and gives mining xp sufficient to gain mining level 1.

Test Pilot Missions

TPG Test Pilot

• Initially qualified the player to fly the TPG Raptor. Currently provides no benefits- at least until the next new TPG ship is released.

Itani Test Pilot

• Completion of this mission unlocks the Valkyrie X-1. You will have to destroy, without assistance, ten ships that will come in two waves. It can be taken from Itani reseach stations.