How to Start<\/h2>\n
To start your first space mission, all you need to do is right click the small blue terminal on your ship with a yellow quest symbol over it, usually located near the bridge of your ship. Players receive their ship after completing their second planet, Dromund Kaas imperial side and Coruscant Republic side, and you can do space missions as low as level 12 once you have your ship.<\/p>\n
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Using the terminal will play a short introductory cutscene where you’ll be invited to join an elite squadron, and you’ll automatically be given your first space combat mission. To start your first mission, right click your galaxy map on the bridge of your ship. The mission will be marked with a yellow triangle on your map and labelled with its name, and you can click it to get started, then click Travel Now. The first mission is fun and relaxing and you don’t need any ship equipment or upgrades. After you finish your first mission, unfortunately the path to the next mission is not very clear – so I’ve put together a guide later in this video about what order you should do the next missions in.<\/p>\n
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Free-to-Play<\/h2>\n
If you are on a Free-to-Play or preferred account, you can play up to ten Space Missions per character per week. Then you will have to wait for the week to reset, or do space missions on a second character instead. Apart from this restriction, Free-to-Play and Preferred players have access to all the same Space Missions and rewards as Subscribers, except ship equipment bought form the vendor costs more than a Subscriber would pay in in-game currency and commendations. Unlike normal purple-bordered gear, Ship Equipment is not restricted by the Artifact Authorization unlock, which means you can equip the best Ship Equipment in the game even if you’re a free-to-play player.<\/p>\n
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Controls<\/h2>\n
Once you start your first mission, space combat controls are incredibly simple compared to the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
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Movement<\/h3>\n
Moving your ship in space combat is very easy, as half the work is taken care of you by the space combat being on rails – this means your ship will make a basic flight path without you even doing anything. There is no throttle controls – you’ll simply move forward automatically. You’ll be able to move your ship within the confines of your screen by moving your mouse in the direction of the screen you want your ship to move in to. You can also use the WASD keys to move if you prefer. Movement is used mainly to dodge asteroids or other obstacles, and to avoid enemy fire. If you see blaster fire coming from the left of the screen, you can move your ship to the right to avoid it.<\/p>\n
Barrel Roll<\/h3>\n
Your space bar will cause your ship to do a barrel roll, which is a defensive maneuver you can use to avoid enemy fire. You can combine it with moving around the screen with your mouse to avoid even more blaster bolts coming your way.<\/p>\n
Blasters<\/h3>\n
To fire your blasters and attack enemy ships, hover your mouse over your target and right click. Where your mouse is is where your blaster bolt will lead, so if you’re used to more complicated space games, you don’t need to lead your target and aim ahead in these simplified space missions. You can also hold down your left mouse button for continuous fire. You have unlimited ammo when it comes to blaster fire. Some enemies only need a shot or two to go down, like basic fighter ships, while other enemies need many shots to go down. It’s good to get in the habit of figuring out how many shots an enemy target needs, so you can hit them with your blasters that many times, then instead of continuing to fire at them until you see them explode, move on to the next target once you’ve reached that number of shots. When you first start off with no equipment, basic enemy fighters will take two clicks worth of damage and then they’ll spiral off and explode.<\/p>\n
Missiles<\/h3>\n
Your missiles are strong attacks you can use to take out more difficult targets. To use a missile, right click on a target. This will place a blue circle around the target, and the missile will auto-lock on to the target and be fired at it. You do not need to keep your mouse on the target after your fire the missile and can move on to other targets if you want. You can also fire multiple missiles at multiple targets at once by right clicking and dragging your mouse over the targets – this is great if you want to hit targets that are all clumped together in one spot. You can also misss with your missiles, so don’t shoot them off into empty space.<\/p>\n
You’ll have a limited amount of missiles based on your ship’s equipment, and you can see how many missile you have on the bottom right of your screen. You start off with 20 if you don’t have any equipment yet.<\/p>\n The four yellow missiles on the bottom right of your screen represent how many missiles you have loaded up. You can have up to four loaded at a time. So if you use all four at once, you’ll need to wait for them to regenerate before you can fire another missile. If you’re right clicking a target, and no missile is firing, it’s usually because your missiles bay is empty and needs a few seconds to load up with missiles again.<\/p>\n Most targets don’t require missiles, but missiles can help you take down targets that have more health faster. You don’t need to use missiles on basic enemies, as you can simply shoot them down with a few shots. You can save your missile for targets with a yellow border around them which are your main missions objectives,<\/p>\n or you can use them on targets with orange circles around them that have more health like large turrets, shields, or engines.<\/p>\n As you upgrade your ships equipment over time, you’ll also receive additional abilities. A majority of these upgrades can be purchased from the Starship Upgrades vendor in the Galactic Trade Network section of the Republic or Imperial fleet, in the cages on the outside of the ring. If you are just starting out, I actually highly recommend not upgrading your ship at all until you start finding the missions difficult, as there’s a really fun sense of progression in upgrading your ship over time. Back in the day, this was achieved by playing space missions as you levelled up, since the equipment pieces were all level gated. These days, you’ll want to replicate this sense of progression by not over gearing your ship for the easier missions. Returning to the easier missions later with lots of upgrades can be a lot of fun, as many have hidden objectives, and there’s a big difference in completing them with a basic ship versus one that’s fully upgraded.<\/p>\n You can get your first ship shield and shield regenerator at character level 16 for 650 credits each. Your shield protects your ship form taking damage, and can regenerate your shield over time if you have a shield regenerator. Your shields are represented by a blue ring around the icon of your ship on the bottom left of your screen. If the blue shields circle runs out, then any shots your ship takes will hurt its health, represented by the red bar beside your ship’s icon. If your health reaches zero, you lose the mission.<\/p>\n You can let your ship’s shield regenerate if you stop firing your blaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n Once your character is level 25, and you have earned 30 Fleet Commendations by doing the dailies, or at level 50 if you have 200,000 credits, you can buy a Power Conversion Module for your ship that will let you switch your power between your shields and your blasters. This is not needed for the earlier missions, but becomes very important in the later missions.<\/p>\n 1 Key – Power to Blasters:<\/strong> Your 1 key on your keyboard will switch your power to your blasters, which will cause you blast cannons to do more damage, but your shield regeneration will be cut in half.<\/p>\n 2 Key – Power to Shields:<\/strong> Your 2 key on your keyboard will switch your power to your shields, which will boost your shield regeneration significantly, but it will cause your blast cannons to do very little damage.<\/p>\n To regenerate your shields normally, once you have a shield equipped, you just stop firing. With a Power Conversion module, you can stop firing and press your 2 key to regenerate your shields faster. When your shields are good to go you can switch over to your blasters again by pressing your 1 key.<\/p>\n If you want to go back to a balanced mode, you can re-press the last 1 or 2 key you pressed. You can see if either one is active by a small blue bar at the bottom of the icon on the bottom left.<\/p>\n Both off: Power to Blasters Active: Power to Shields Active: Once your character is level 35, and you have earned 90 Fleet Commendations by doing the dailies, or at level 50 if you have many credits for the GTN, you can buy an Electronic Warfare Pod for your ship that will let you jam the enemy ships and turrets, causing enemies to not be able to target you for ten or fifteen seconds. To activate your jammers, press the 3 key<\/strong> on your keyboard. You can still get hit by stray shots, but you’ll be shot a lot less while you have the glowing yellow aura around your ship. You can use this once every 2 minutes and 30 seconds. In some missions you’ll want to save it for specific parts of the route, while in other missions you can use it whenever you’re in a pickle. Most missions range between 3 to 5 minutes so you’ll only get to use it once or twice per space mission.<\/p>\n Once your character is level 35, and you have earned 150 Fleet Commendations by doing the dailies, or at level 50 if you have many credits for the GTN, you can buy an EMP Generator for your ship. Your EMP is an extremely powerful attack that does a large amount of damage to nearby enemies (and allies). To activate your EMP, press the 4 key<\/strong> on your keyboard. This will send a pulse attack out all around your ship that will damage anything within range. You can only use your EMP attack once every 4 minutes, so in most missions you’ll only be able to use it once per fight, so time is wisely.<\/p>\n Once your character is level 50, and you have earned 50 Fleet Commendations by doing the dailies, you can buy Proton Torpedos for your ship. Proton Torpedos are a special type of missile for your ship for attacking large, often hidden, targets. to use your normal missiles, you simply right click your target to lock on and fire. To fire a Proton Torpedo, you click and hold your right mouse button on your target and a new type of red targeting circle will appear as the torpedo locks on. It will flash a different symbol once locked on, and you can release to fire. Proton torpedos only work on certain targets and will not work on basic enemies or basic large ship turrets or shields. Your only have 4 proton torpedos, and they are represented by a purple triangle shape on the bottom right of your screen.<\/p>\n Reputation is a way of gaining favor with different groups by completing quests for them. As you level up your reputation rank, more rewards for that reputation track become available. The solo space combat reputation was one of the earliest reputation groups added, and for a long time, you could only ear reputation from the very difficult heroic space missions. It has been updated however, so now you can also earn reputation by doing easier missions too.<\/p>\n There are a few different ways to earn Space Reputation.<\/p>\n It’s completely up to you how you want to try and gain Reputation – unlike many of the other Reputation tracks, it will depend a lot on how difficult you find the heroic missions. If you can complete them without failing after practicing a while, they’re by far the most efficient method. But if you can’t complete them, or fail a lot, or just dislike them, you can either do your favorite normal missions once a day as time allows, or if you have lots of time you can do the full set of normal operation missions on as many character per day as you have time. Whatever option you choose, make sure not to burn yourself out, as the space missions are not limited by time and I’ve slowly been working on mine for almost ten years now.<\/p>\n Reputation Items<\/strong><\/p>\n Reputation Ranks<\/strong><\/p>\n To see your current space reputation, press Y on your keyboard or choose Legacy from the menu at the top of the screen, and in the Reputation section hover over the Republic Hyperspace Armada or the Imperial First Mobile Fleet. You can only earn 12,000 reputation per week. Unlike most Reputation tracks, Space reputation items usually go into your inventory, where you need to right-click them to consume them.<\/p>\n The rest of the rewards only cost Fleet Commendations, and do not have a reputation requirement. Fleet commendations can be earned by completing the one-time quests as well as the daily Operation quests. Unfortunately, Fleet Commendations are not legacy-bound, so you can only spend them on the character you earned them on. You can see how many Fleet Comms your character has in the currency tab in your inventory. If you complete all the original one-time space missions, you’ll earn 38 commendations, and for each of the heroic one-time missions, you’ll earn 20 commendations for each one. After that, you can earn commendations from the different repeatable daily quests. If you ran through all the original dailies, which would be fourteen missions, you can earn 100 commendations per day, 700 a week, and doing a heroic daily will get you can extra 40 commendations per day and 80 on Sundays for 320 a week. So if you ran every space operation every day for a week, you’d earn 1,020 commendations total. I do not recommend running this many though, and instead I recommend once you have played all the one-time space missions, just play the chosen heroic space mission for the day for a good amount of fleet comms and reputation. If you aren’t up to playing once a day per week, you can also log in, go to your ship and pick up the heroic Operation of the day, and then play all the operations on the weekend, as they will stay in your quest log even after the chosen day has passed.<\/p>\n If what you’re looking for is the Fleet Commendation rewards and don’t care about the space missions themselves, you may want to check out Galactic Starfighter, the space player-vs-player mode, as its Daily and Weekly quests also reward Fleet Commendations. There is a terminal section of the fleet you can pick them up from, and the Daily rewards 50 Fleet Commendations for playing 2 matches or winning 1, and the Weekly has you play 10 or win 5 matches and gives you 300 Fleet commendations. If you played and won a match or two every day of the week for the daily plus an extra three matches to make the weekly, you could earn 650 Fleet commendations per week per character.<\/p>\n There are not very many rewards for space Missions compared to the other Reputation tracks. However, the Space Mission reputation rewards are probably some of the rarest reputation rewards you will see in the game as so few players have mastered the difficult space missions that reward you with reputation points!<\/p>\n Completing the first mission Fondor Escort Republic side and Jabiim Escort Imperial side will also each grant you an easy 20 Cartel Coins through achievements. As far as I can tell there are no hidden achievements and no additional rewards from achievements, though there are some fun achievements that will ask you to complete the hidden bonus objectives in the different space missions.<\/p>\n When you pick up your first space mission, your character is assigned a call sign. Here’s all the call signs for each class. These are for fun and aren’t referenced anywhere else in the game.<\/p>\n Tirsa Champion<\/b><\/p>\n Requires Legend Reputation Rank with the Republic Hyperspace Armada \/ Imperial First Mobile Fleet, costs 500,000 Credits, Mount, legacy-bound so you can buy it on one character and send it to another of your characters, but it can only be used on 1 character<\/p>\n Deep Space Starfighter Helmet<\/b><\/p>\n Requires Champion Reputation Rank with the Republic Hyperspace Armada \/ Imperial First Mobile Fleet, costs 250,000 Credits, Armor, legacy-bound<\/p>\n Hyperspace Hotshot Armor<\/b><\/p>\n Requires Hero Reputation Rank with the Republic Hyperspace Armada \/ Imperial First Mobile Fleet, costs 250,000 Credits, Armor, legacy-bound<\/p>\n Pilot’s Armor<\/b><\/p>\n No reputation needed, costs Civilian Pilot Armor<\/b><\/p>\n No reputation needed, costs Republic Pilot Armor<\/b><\/p>\n No reputation needed, costs Imperial Pilot Armor<\/b><\/p>\n No reputation needed, costs Starship: Imperial Scout<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 500 Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Imperial side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Propaganda: Starfighter Kiosk (Imperial)<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 250 Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Imperial side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Propaganda: Imperial Striker<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 150 Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Imperial side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Propaganda: Imperial Scout<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 150 Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Imperial side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Starship: Republic Scout<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 500Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Republic side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Propaganda: Starfighter Kiosk (Republic)<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 250 Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Republic side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Propaganda: Republic Gunship<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 150 Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Republic side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Propaganda: Republic Striker<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 150 Fleet Commendations – Decoration, purchasable from the Starfighter & PvP Decoration Vendor in the Strongholds section of the fleet on Republic side only, can also be bought and sold on the GTN<\/p>\n Stronghold Label: Starfighter’s Lounge<\/b><\/p>\n Costs 500 Fleet Commendations – Title for your Stronghold<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_5f830ab9bc54e.png\")
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EMP Generator<\/h3>\n
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Heroic Space Missions one-time, x6 (Fastest but expensive and difficult):<\/strong> The first is to complete each of the six one-time heroic space missions, which will each reward you with a blue reputation item. This set of six missions can only be done once per level 50+ character, and you’ll need to gear up each character’s ship who does it, so it’s not very efficient when it comes to tokens and credits, but could be a fast way to go through the reputation track. This gets you about 3,700 Reputation points per character as a subscriber.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Heroic Space mission Operations, daily (Faster but difficult):<\/strong> The second way to earn space reputation is through the heroic daily operations. To unlock these dailies that give you a blue reputation item, first you need to run the one-time heroic space mission associated with that operation. Which heroic operation is actually available each day depends on the day of the week, and a different heroic operation becomes available every day. Sundays also offer a special two-mission heroic operation that gives a purple reputation item too, so running both missions on Sunday will get you a little more than normal days. If you have not completed the matching one-time space mission for the heroic operation of the day, you won’t see the operation show up until you complete it even if its on the correct day. You can run these dailies on as many level 50 characters as you have ships geared up, so if you really like space missions, and are good at the heroic ones, you can run these on multiple characters per day for some great reputation. I’ve heard a few players say they like to run the heroic operations on two characters per day which is pretty reasonable if it’s something you enjoy. The heroic operations get you about 630 Reputation points per character as a subscriber for each heroic operation per character.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Normal Space Missions Operations, daily (Slow but Easier):<\/strong> In the past, only the hardest normal space mission operation would reward a reputation item, and the others were useless when it came to gaining reputation. Now however, all operation missions reward at least a green reputation item. So if you’re struggling with the heroic missions, or just enjoy the normal space missions, you can still run them to gain reputation at a slow pace. If you’ve played all the space missions at least once, in addition to the heroic operation you may have available if you’ve done the heroics, there will be eight normal operations playable a day. Some operations only require one space missions, while most require two to complete. Funny enough, the first operation, which is called Operation Midnight Freedom Republic side and Operation Silent Roar Imperial side, only require one mission, and its the easiest mission at that. So if you’re looking to level up your Space reputation at a slow but steady pace, you could run that first operation once a day, on one or multiple characters. The great part about this mission is that it is almost impossible to fail it, so it’s a very friendly mission compared to the others. A single operation gets you 270 reputation points per mission per character.\u00a0 Alternatively, you could run each of the eight daily operations, which would get you around 2,000 reputation points per day per character, but it will take you quite a while, as there are fourteen actual missions to run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Green Reputation Item: 270 Reputation Points + 10% Guild XP boost, 135 for Free-to-play<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\u00a0Blue Reputation Item: 630 Reputation Points + 10% Guild XP boost, 315 for Free-to-play<\/li>\n Purple Reputation Item: 1750 Reputation Points + 10% Guild XP boost, 875 for Free-to-play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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