Now I will correctly answer ALL your questions to the closest I think humanly possible
1. I am trying to defeat the aliens in the alien mission and cannot do it. No weapon I possess or have tried seems to work. I have the particle beam.
TIP: You need a kestrel to do this if you are a novice. Get the tractor beam by doing ALL the astrodyne outpost missions, (there are more after you blow up the station) The weapon transport is in an un-inhabited system near tiber. (not castor) Sell everything, and get 3 proton turrets, and some primary weapons. Go close to the alien cruiser, activate your tractor beam, the alien cruiser won't be able to move. Just hold down the fire button untill it's dead, and wait for it to blow before you leave. DO NOT TRY TO KILL THE ALIEN FIGHTERS, they are invincible (almost) with the weapons available in Origional EV)
2. How can I get the tractor beam or the cloaking device.
Ditto (above)
3. Is the alien mission the last confederation mission.
Basicly, yes. The rebel alien mission, however, does not require all rebel missions to be done. (there are still minor missions not linked though...)
4. If question 3 is true, then are there other missions in the orginial, i.e. for the rebellion.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but you can't get rebel missions without hacking if you di dthe first confed one. What you can do at the start of the game, is getting the rebel parcel mission, don't complete it though, you can get the confed on by getting a good legal status in sol.
5. How can I change sides so that the rebellion offers me missions.
You can't. The change sides mission doesn't take advantage of the clear visbit feature, so you will NEVER be able to get rebel missions. That was in 1.0.4. It MIGHT be different in 1.0.5, but I really doubt it. To do rebel/confed missions, just open the data file with resedit, open the "msn" resc file, select the mission desired, "Transport Confed Documents" or "Transport Rebel Parcels" and open it. Change the AVAILSTEL to 20002 (any inhabited planet with a bar) And the AVAILABITSET to -1 (might want to make availrandom 100 too).
6. Lastly, I completed the Artemis mission, do they offer anymore missions?
nope. Try "pale" though, great plug with many extra missions.
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Tell me how it goes. (douglas.black@usa.net)
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(This message has been edited by Cotton Mouse (edited 01-25-2000).)