Space Combat Quide

After completing the last class mission on your second planet, around level 16, you will receive your Starship and start your space combat adventures. The Space Combat system in Star Wars: The Old Republic is designed in an arcade style game. Every combat mission will put you on a pre-determined course towards your objective and you’ll maneuver your ship through obstacles and deal with enemies that cross your path within the allocated time frame.

Space Combat Controls

• Left Mouse Click – Shoots your blasters. If you hold your Left Mouse Button down you will firing your blasters continuously.
• Right Mouse Click – Fires your missiles. Holding your Right Mouse Button down enables you to select up to 4 targets at once for missiles.
• Use your mouse to move your Starship around the screen. For the additional adjustments you can use W,A,S,D keyboard keys in combination with the mouse move.
• Spacebar – Your Starship will maje a barrel roll.
• Special upgrades for your Starship are bound to keys 1,2,3,4 on your keyboard.

Space Combat Tips

• The hidden bonus objectives always require 30 missiles or a Proton Torpedo. Makam Te’s bridge requires 30, Balosar Outpost’s communications tower requires 30, Zosha (Makam Te Hard) requires 30, and so on. Your missile damage never goes up, and the ‘health’ of these objects is the same across all space missions. Always 30 missiles or a Proton Torpedo.
• Blasters do not damage shielded objects at all. Ever. Even when you’re doing 100 per shot, 10 shots / sec, and have your beams overcharged. If you see white/blue ripples when you shoot a target, you are not doing damage to it–use missiles. Some objects are shielded differently in different missions, however; Makam Te’s Capitol Shield Generators are not shielded, but Zosha Advance’s are.
• The reward for destroying hidden bonus objectives (bridges, comm towers) is 500xp per kill, with an additional 2500-3000xp and credits for the first kill in that mission per day. You can run the same mission repeatedly and keep blowing up the bridge, but you’ll only get the kill credit, not the bonus objective.
• It is not possible to destroy the bridge in Archenar Interception / Drexel Sweep (Republic) before you have the Proton Torpedo. Even if you fire missiles through the asteroid, you only ever have time for 28 missiles. Ever. The Empire mirrors of these missions can have their bridges destroyed, as the Republic capitol ships have a different geometry and are on screen longer.
• Zosha Advance has five shielded targets, including the bridge. You have 4 Proton Torpedoes. When your torpedoes are cooling down, you can fire missiles as normal; it takes six to blow up a shield generator. If you’re out of torpedoes, you also default to missiles.
• Kalee Fortification (Republic) does not have a bonus objective for destroying the capitol ship’s bridge. Neither is there a bonus for destroying everything on the capitol ship.
• On Hydian Way / Impossible Sector (Republic), you can use your EMP Generator to destroy mines. Excellent targets are the second pass through the first mine field, and the second pass through the second mine field. By “second pass”, I do not mean when you revisit it later, but rather when you go through it once, turn around, and fly through again. The first mine field alone, when EMPed in this way, can net you about 140+ mines at once.

Notes

• Bonus (1) Is usually shoot down ships etc and is usually always easy
• Bonus (2) is usually related to the capital ships and w/o lots of missiles and best weapons is hard to do on some missions
• Bonus (3) Appear to only be doable once a day that favour having proton-torpedos taking out the bridge/comms tower in the captial ships/stations
• The per hr figures are only rough due to loading times being different for everyone and is only a baseline to compare the missions. However you should be able to judge which ones are worth your time from the figures. (For the majority of people the figure will be ~10% less than the max.)
• Completion of Kalee Fortification/Aeten Defense gives you the T6 Purple Beam Generator
• Completion of Impossible Sector/Ascendancy Barrier Gives the Hot Shot Pilot Title

Guide Author: Plate Beard

In the table below you can find space combat information about Republis and Empire missions, bonuses and commendations. We would like to say a big THANK YOU to Plate Beard for making this table and removing any mystery from Space Combat missions, and allowing us to post it on our site. We think this will be extremely helpful for all of the SWTOR community members and we hope you will enjoy it. You can also follow Plate Beard work with some other interesting data here.

We would also like to say a special thank you to gorgewall for Space Combat Tips.

Mission Republic	Mission Empire	Time Taken	Cred	Commen.	Commen. /hr	Cumul Cred	Cumul Tokens	Money /hr (b1&2)	Bonus(1)	Bonus(2)	Bonus(3) Daily	Cumulative Cred w/bonus 1/2/3	Additional Notes
Operation Midnight Freedom	Operation Silent Roar	3;30	645	4		975	5					5415
Fondor Escort	Jabiim Escort	3;30	330	1	17			7,714	120	0	4320		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship.
Operation Searing Light	Operation Echo Quake	11;10	1584	5		2244	7					9410
Javaal Fleet Action	Saleucami Fleet Action	4;40	330	1	13			17,679	198	847	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship at end.
Balosar Outpost	Cartel Listening Station	6;30	330	1	9			12,692	198	847	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy Communications Spire on base of station.
Operation Noble Gambit	Operation Eternal Domain	8;25	1885	6		3175	8					11531
Archenar Interception	Nez Peron Sweep	3;45	645	1	16			32,016	1158	198	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship.
Makem Te Assault	Sarapin Assault	4;40	645	1	13			33,030	386	1538	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship.
Operation Ardent Wave	Operation Molten Splinter	10;00	3090	7		5916	11					15277
Syvris Evacuation	Taspan Ambush	3;30	1413	1	17			57,000	386	1526	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship.
Llanic Station Strike	Ezran Outpost	6;30	1413	3	28			34,948	847	1526	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy Communications Spire on base of station.
Operation Glory Cyclone	Operation Rising Fury	10;00	4068	8		8522	14					19319
Pakuuni Defense	Skaross Fortification	5;20	2227	3	34			60,739	1335	1837	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship.
Kovor Ice Field	Mugaar Ice Field	4;40	2227	3	39			61,406	712	1837	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship.at end
Operation Sunder Zero	Operation Sweeping Menace	11;45	5196	9		11690	15					16227
Hydian Way Blockade	Polith Minefield	8;00	3247	3	23			55,485	1975	2176	0		Bonus (3): None available
Drexel Sweep	Sullust Interception	3;45	3247	3	48			58,128	386	0	0		Bonus (3): None available
Operation Grand Nova	Operation Raging Dawn	10;00	5360	10		13400	20					22662
Kalee Fortification	Aeten Defense	5;20	4020	5	56			99,473	2411	2411	0		Bonus (3): None available
Zosha Advance	Clouds of Vondoru	4;40	4020	5	64			76,140	1902	0	2538		Bonus (3): Destroy bridge on Capital Ship.
Operation New Eclipse	Operation Ascendant Pride	8;00	7848	15		12753	20					18639
The Impossible Sector	Ascendancy Barrier	8;00	4905	5	38			80,933	2943	2943	0		Bonus (3): None available