The mission begins with the deployment of the 6 squads at the rear and south-eastern flanks of the convoy. Squads 1,2,3 and 6 take the gunship from the back by surprise - in less than two minutes, most of the battleship's turrets are disabled, while the returning fire manages to miss the majority of it's targets. More south, combat immediately begins between Squads 4 and 5 and the HAMMER fighters trying to stop them from approaching the southern shieldmaiden. However, the HAMMER regiment is quickly overwhelmed from both sides and all the fighters are annihilated with no REKT casualties, much to the surprise of most who expected heavier resistance from the HAMMERs.
With the hostile platoon defeated, the shieldmaidens are quick to fall as well - first the southern, then the northern one. With their capture, the shield that previously limited access to the science vessel is taken down and some platoonmembers immediately start boarding the vessel from it's open side hangar. Almost all of the attacking forces concentrate in the vicinity of the science vessel as the carrier previously in front of it begins making a circle around the ship. Tulius and Karthus fail to escape the carrier's trajectory in time and are killed by it's numerous missile launchers.
As a boarding party is hastily assembled on the side hangar of the vessel and takes control of it, the other members of the platoon prepare to board the larger top hangar which is shielded by an onboard shield projector. Upon disabling the shield, however, the group runs into an ambush as 9 HAMMERs are revealed to be inside the hangar and prepared for combat. Furthermore, 16 HAMMERs fly out of the carrier and head in the direction of the science vessel. A shield is quickly raised to prevent the incoming HAMMERs from arriving at the science vessel, while an eight kiloton charge is thrown into and detonated inside the top hangar, obliterating it and destroying several hostiles. The group still must deal with the 7 heavy-duty enemy fighters that either managed to escape the hangar in time or get to the science vessel before the shield was raised. Unlike the initial HAMMER platoon which was quickly eliminated, this one is both far better equipped, possessing a large set of weapons and impressively strong armor, and far more skilled pilots. In the ensuing battle, Brecalus and Trig are killed, while Marcson, Dr. Cha0zz, Foreigner and Chavez suffer heavy damage to their ships. Also, upon realizing that they are losing the battle, the surviving HAMMERs perform a suicide run into the northern shieldmaiden, dealing massive damage and disabling all but one of it's shield projectors, leaving the challenging duty of protecting the science vessel to the southern shieldmaiden.
Meanwhile, the side-hangar boarding party has been steadily pushing Mimir resistance deep into the interior of the vessel. Eventually, they arrive at the laboratories near the back. There, heavy resistance is encountered in the form of highly trained and well armed Mimir guards. An intense shootout begins as the boarding party attempts to take control of the area. Most of the pilots previously fighting on the top of the ship arrive to reinforce the group, with just a few staying in the rapidly deteriorating situation outside. Amenra unintentionally unleashes a ferocious beast, the Boarbear, from a cell nearby and lures it to the laboratories whilst trying to escape it and Aegagrus pushes Hema through the entrance upon setting off his grenade and locking the entrance, heavily wounding him, Marcson and Aliss, further adding to the chaos.
Luckily, Ysavva and Dino jointly take out the guards, and Dino and Aliss distract the boarbear long enough for Ysavva to make an escape carrying Hema and Marcson's head, and everyone heads for the final hangar.
In the meantime outside, Chavez commits treason and turns off the shield, hoping to trick Tartarus in doing an evac. He is stopped in this by Squidhead.
Inside, Rikken Kai'isha, Ysavva and Andrew discover another alien orb such as that found in Chilendorn, and they and Dino touch it.
In the meantime, the Doctor ambushes 3 MIMIR and kills them all, helped by Tonon, Aliss and Taniya.
Subsequently, Blake opens the hangar, Dino uses his newfound power to save people from a grenade and a thrilling firefight starts, ending in Dino's death after he defeats an exosuit-armoured MIMIR soldier - but not before Ysavva takes down the airshield and Dino manages to apply the beacon to the objective.
This allows Zorathex to pick up the objective and, helped by the reappearance of the boarbear who takes out most of the remaining MIMIR guards, everyone rushes to their ship and leaves.
At that moment, the MIMIR reinforcements warps in, and everyone rushes to the extraction point with the MIMIR fleet at their heels.
Once they arrive there, a battle of attrition starts and several REKT members die or get severely hit, until at last the warpships drop in and warp everyone to safety.
