Mission "FW Syndicate Capture 1B" requires too much luck about endless-sky HOT 1 CLOSED

It was intended to be three separate battles: after capturing him, if you wait 5-10 seconds in the first system (Alpha Hydri) instead of jumping out immediately, the Syndicate fleet starts to arrive but you can pick them off individually as they jump in. Then there's the second fleet waiting for you in the next system (Ruchbah), and the nukes in a third system (Ankaa or Sheratan or Scheat).

But if you jump out immediately (which is the natural thing to do, after all!) you meet up with both fleets in the Ruchbah system and then, they are indeed far too powerful. So, I've changed it in commit 8c2c459 so that the Syndicate shows up in the initial system almost immediately, to make sure that it ends up being three separate, manageable fights instead of one big one.

The nukes are supposed to be really evil and annoying; I suspect I was testing in a faster ship or one with afterburners. But, it's essential to the plot that you should be mad at the Syndicate for using nukes against you. :)

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