X3 TC Hyperion Vanguard

[amtct]

Where can I found this ship?It doesn't apear in my encyclopedia.


Thank you!

[Thelic]

You can't buy it at a shipyard. Cap only.

[NeverSnake]

You can find it flying around Paranid sectors.

[PabloRSA]

Advice - Cap the ship in a boarder sector. Less hassle from police.

[DarkCorp]

I'd just capping mine in priest pity with a heavy dragon and five 3 stars marines : not a real challenge but a really good personnal ship...

[Sandalpocalypse]

It's maneuverable with good turret coverage, so it's difficult to cap with a missile frigate unless you hit it from long range from the front. You're probably best off using an m6.

[Spaceweed Adict]

OK if your looking for Hyperions set up a sat network in the paronid core and surrounding sectors.
Paronid prime, Trinity sanctum & Cardinals domain. and the sectors boardering them you'll find the Hyperions patrolling in one of them.
I have noticed thou there only every seems to be 2 of them in the universe at any one time so if you cap them both give it a couple of hours and 2 more will spawn.
Up to now I have 6 Hyperions in my fleet, all captured with an M6 and 5 marines.
Another thing I've noticed is if you find them in the Paronid prime area and capture them next time you look they'll be in the Cardinals Domain area and vice versa.

[amtct]

Up to now I have 6 Hyperions in my fleet, all captured with an M6 and 5 marines.

Send to me one of your Hyperion

I still can't find any!

[space pirate]

i was in a border paranid sector and thought i'd see if there was a hyperion vanguard. lucky me - there was one without any escorts. capped it, but lost 2 out of 5 marines, even thought it had no defenses. only lost 2% of top paranid rep.

[amtct]

i was in a border paranid sector and thought i'd see if there was a hyperion vanguard. lucky me - there was one without any escorts. capped it, but lost 2 out of 5 marines, even thought it had no defenses. only lost 2% of top paranid rep.

only 2% rep?The last time I cap a Paranid ship I was Honour Guard of Xaar and after the cap I had only Enemy of Priest Duke rep

[Kapakio]

I normally don't get more than 10% loss after a capture. Just don't kill the escorts (unless necessary) and shoot the least as you can. It the ship to be captured is alone and no other same-race ships in the sector, the rep loss is hardly more than 3%. It also helps to start ramming the ship. It is a way to lower the shields before it even realized you are really going to attack it. Of course, you have to be piloting a bigger ship for that

[Al]

Sounds like a very small drop in rep. I lost a whole rank with the Teladi aftre capturing one of their hospital TLs which I came across although I wasn't that high up the ranks to start with.

[Spaceweed Adict]

Well as I said I have 6 Hyperions now and my rep with the paronid is still Seeker of the holly light and that was just after I stole 2 Hyp's off then one in Empires Edge and the other in priest rings.

Another couple of sector patrols or station defence missions will soon have me back on Honour Guard of Xaar.

The trick is get in there get his shield down and your guys on board as quick as possible.
Once they take the ship get a jumpdrive and Energy Cells over to it and get it and yourself out of there as fast as you can don't hang around and fight with the police or boarder patrols it will only cost you big rep loses killing them.
Also Talking of marines I use what I call my 5 Ninja warriors there all fully trained in all subjects and are all 5 star fighters now.
These guys have now captured me 2 carracks, 3 Hyperions and 1 Ryu without loss.
See the Hyperion is a great ship for capturing becouse of its 2 ship hanger bay that means you can carry 2 extra jump drives and ofcourse a couple of spare fighters if things start to get a little hairy.

[space pirate]

when i killed the hyp by mistake instead of 2% off 10th rank i went from 24% 10th rank to 60% 9th rank, so killing any ships at all is a no-no. of course, only 3 fighters came after me: 2 police vessels and a border control one. didn't even have to worry about jumping out the hyp as they all backed off after a single apology. shame about my marines, but the dead ones only had 1 star in fighting (the survivors have 3).

[ivak]

Call me kleptomaniac, but i just can't restrain myself when i see Hyperion. Here's my little collection:

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And this is what it looks like in sector:

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I had more, but lost two to Kha'ak invaders and another couple sacrificed itself to protect my megaplex.

I never saw the whole armada in action. In fact, i assembled it for the first time to take these shots. The funny part was that one of the ships had some booze forgotten on board. The local cops got wind of it and attacked us. Needless to say, they were evaporated within a second.

[amtct]

Thats why can't find any...

[Spaceweed Adict]

Flock of Segulls
Hmm thought I was doing well with my 1/2 dozen.
Well you got the escorts ivak I think now its time to go for the main battle group.
The Agamemnons.
16 Hyperions 2 per escort group so looks like your going to need 8 Aga's

[Sandalpocalypse]

All those hyperions must have cost 100 million+ in repair costs alone..

[ivak]

...looks like your going to need 8 Aga's

Back to work, then *sigh*

All those hyperions must have cost 100 million+ in repair costs alone..

Most of them were undamaged. I too have my "ninja team". But arming the ships was completely different story.

[MisterV]

Sorry to intrude, but are marines something from TC, so if I'm playing X3R I shouldn't be worried about them?