Tycho's Time Trials

This quest starts Tycho Celchu's questline from the Ace of Aces space content.

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To start this questline, speak with Tycho Celchu, who will be in one of the back rooms of the Idiot's Array lounge.

/way corellia 6950 -5597 Tycho Celchu;

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Tycho Celchu challenges the player to beat their personal record for three types of missions. All of these missions are timed and will challenge the player's piloting ability, quickness, and ship quality.

Important: You will need a Deep Space hyperspace chip in your flight computer/astromech in order to complete certain trials!

Tycho's Trials​

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Tycho's questline consists of 9 timed missions, that are broken down to 3 missions per tier.

• 3 duty missions
• 3 circuit missions
• 3 corvette missions

The duty and corvette missions take place in Deep Space, while the circuit missions take place in various systems.

Tiers​

There are 3 tiers associated with each of the missions above. The number of waypoints, difficulty, and quantity of ships remains the same. The only thing that changes between the tiers for each missions is the amount of time provided to be complete that mission.

Trial 1 - Duty Mission​

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These trial missions consist of having to clear a duty of Tier 6 fighters in Deep Space in a provided amount of time, depending on the tier.

• You will need a Deep Space hyperspace chip in your flight computer/astromech for this mission - it takes too much time to get to Deep Space through traditional means

You may find a breakdown of the duty mission by using the table below.

k = Tier 6 Kihraxz, s = Tier 6 Scyk, i = Tier 6 Ixiyen, f = Tier 6 KSE Firespray, ki = Tier 6 Kimogila, kr = Tier 6 Krayt, Y = Tier 6 YT-1300

The Duty Mission Token rewards for this duty are as follows:

• Cycle 1
  • WIP
• Cycle 2
  • WIP
• Cycle 3
  • WIP
• Duty completion
  • 1,000 Duty Mission Tokens

If you go over the timer you may still complete the duty mission, but you will not progress to the next quest in the tier.

Trial 2 - Circuit Mission​

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These trial missions consist of having to navigate to various waypoints across multiple systems in a provided amount of time, depending on the tier.

• You will not need a Deep Space hyperspace chip in your flight computer/astromech for this mission

The order of systems that you will need to travel to are as follows:

1. Corellia
2. Naboo
3. Tatooine
4. Yavin
5. Endor
6. Dathomir
7. Dantooine
8. Kashyyyk
9. Ord Mantell

Each system will have 3 waypoints that the player will have to navigate to, before hyperspacing to the next system, except for Dathomir - which has 5 waypoints.

Trial 3 - Corvette Mission​

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These trial missions consist of having to destroy a Hidden Dagger's corvette in Deep Space in a provided amount of time. The corvette will be escorted by 2 Tier 5 Gunships and a handful of Tier 5 fighters.

You only need to destroy the Hidden Dagger's corvette - you do not need to destroy a single ship in the convoy that is escorting the corvette.

• You will need a Deep Space hyperspace chip in your flight computer/astromech for this mission - it takes too much time to get to Deep Space through traditional means

Follow the standard recommended approach of fighting corvettes:

1. Destroy Weapon 5
2. Destroy Shield and Secondary Shield
3. Destroy Engine
4. Destroy Reactor
5. Destroy Bridge

You may destroy additional weapon systems on the corvette to increase survivability and mitigate damage taken, but remember, this is timed.

Rewards​

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Completion of each tier will provide you with rewards. Be sure to speak with Myrna the Space Queen after completing the final mission of each tier.

/way corellia 6923 -5606 Myrna the Space Queen;

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• Cortosis
  • Cortosis Pilot badge
  • Cortosis Pilot player title
  • 10,000 Duty Mission Tokens
• Beskar
  • Beskar Pilot badge
  • Beskar Pilot player title
  • 15,000 Duty Mission Tokens
• Aurodium
  • Aurodium Pilot badge
  • Aurodium Pilot player title
  • 25,000 Duty Mission Tokens

Tips​

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Some tips that might make these trials a little easier.

Duty Mission Tips​

Standard duty mission, can use what you most likely use when you do high tier duty missions.

Common farming loadouts:

• Rebels - Advanced X-Wing with 3 high-quality certification 8 weapons and a high quality certification 10 shield
• Imperials - TIE Defender with 3 high-quality certification 8 weapons and a high quality certification 10 shield
• Freelancers - Rihkxyrk/Krayt/Kimogila with 3 high-quality certification 8 weapons and a high quality certification 10 shield

You don't have to use these loadouts, but will probably be easiest if you do.

Circuit Mission Tips​

Since this trial boils down to a "gear-check" on your ship and hyperspace timings, here are some tips that might make this trial a little easier.

Chassis and Ship Component Selection​

This trial, especially the Aurodium tier, is very dependent on the quality of the engine your ship has.

First, it is highly recommend using a ship that has a 100% speed modifier. This will help get the most out the Engine Top Speed attribute of the engine ship component.

• Rebels - A-Wing, T-Wing
• Imperials - TIE Interceptor, TIE Advanced, Imperial Guard Tie Interceptor
• Freelancers - Vaksai, N-1, Kihraxz

Now that we have our chassis, it's time to select our ship components. I have included screenshots of ship components that were used to complete the Aurodium tier in each ship component section.

Your ship should only have four components for this trial, in order to maximize the amount of mass you can allocate to the engine and booster. No shield, no armor, no weapons - build to be as fast as possible.

1. Engine (with highest Engine Top Speed you have)
2. Booster (with highest Booster Top Speed you have)
3. Droid Interface (with Reactor Overload - Four and Engine Overload - Four chips)
4. Reactor (with a Reactor Generation Rate high enough to handle the energy requirement)

The most important component for this trial is the engine. Use the fastest engine you have - the higher the top speed, the better! Try to shoot for ~120+ on the Engine Top Speed attribute.

• High-quality reverse engineered certification 10 engine
• Crafted Nova Industries Mark V Engine (with experimentation in Engine Top Speed)

You will also want to have booster with a high Top Booster Speed attribute.

• High-quality reverse engineered booster​
• Crafted collection booster (with experimentation in Top Booster Speed)​

While not as important as the other components, you will still need a droid interface that will have a high enough Droid Command Speed to complete your overloads as soon as possible.

• High-quality droid interface (Mark IV was used in this guide)

Finally, you will need a reactor to be able to satisfy the energy requirement when using an Engine Overload - Four chip. You shouldn't need anything crazy.

Hyperspace Timings​

In the hyperspace timings spoiler in the Circuit Mission section, there are certain hyperspace timings that need to be done "immediately" or "as soon as you arrive".

I decided to create macros for these specific timings, to save 1-2 seconds from having to open the Hyperspace Map, selecting the planet, selecting the route, and selecting OK. These are most likely optional, but in my successful attempt - I used these. These are the 5 macros that I ended up using.

Macro #1 - used when above Endor and the next step is "Set hyperspace navigation to Dathomir, Dathomir's Vitality as soon as you arrive"

Macro #2 - used when above Dathomir and the next step is "Set hyperspace navigation to Dantooine, Asair's Ribbon as soon as you arrive"

Macro #3 - used when above Dantooine and the next step is "Set hyperspace navigation to Dantooine, Dantooine's Wrath immediately"

Macro #4 - used when above Dantooine and the next step is "Set hyperspace navigation to Kashyyyk, Neutral Territories immediately"

Macro #5 - used when above Kashyyyk and the next step is "Set hyperspace navigation to Kashyyyk, Rodian Territories immediately"

I placed each macro on my toolbar, in order, and with a space between them so I didn't accidently click the wrong one. If you do click the wrong macro, your attempt will be blown.

• F1 - Macro #1
• F3 - Macro #2
• F5 - Macro #3
• F7 - Macro #4
• F9 - Macro #5

Corvette Mission Tips​

Standard Corellian Corvette fight. I recommend concentrating on only the Corvette and attacking in fly-bys.

Common farming loadouts:

• Rebels - Advanced X-Wing with 3 high-quality certification 8 weapons and a high quality certification 10 shield
• Imperials - TIE Defender with 3 high-quality certification 8 weapons and a high quality certification 10 shield
• Freelancers - Rihkxyrk/Krayt/Kimogila with 3 high-quality certification 8 weapons and a high quality certification 10 shield

You don't have to use these loadouts, but will probably be easiest if you do.