Missions :

There are 2 types of missions :

Transport Missions :

• All transport missions require taking the mission item to a specific star to complete the mission.
• If a mission is not completed before it expires, you are penalized.
• The reward/penalty value is based on the distance to the destination.
• Missions appear periodically or as a result of an event.
• You receive an advisor alert when a new mission comes available.
• Transfer to or capture by another lord, of a mission will cause it to fail and the penalty applied.
• There are several early game missions that may be missed if you do not expand fast enough.
• Most missions are optional, a few are not and you will be penalized for not completing them.
• If a fleet contains a mission, setting the fleet type to Mission, will name the fleet with the mission destination.

Mission Types
Type	Acquisition	Deposit	Reward	Penalty	Location
Honourific	Automatic	None	Honour	None	Starbase at Capital
Monetary	Optional	Credits	Credits	Loss of deposit	Starbase at Capital
Material	Optional	Credits	Artifact	Loss of deposit	Starbase at Capital
Trait Specific	Optional	None	Fame	Scandal	Starbase at Capital

Mercenary Missions :

• These missions may be viewed in the comm panel under "GNN - Mercenary Adverts".
• You do not need to accept them, they are awarded to the first realm the satisfies the requirements.
• See Mercenary Adverts for details.