Mystery Cube/Mystery Delivery missions?

[NvMe 令]

Are these two seperate? Ive been reading guides and forums to get the Bacterian and these two pop up a lot, ive already done 3 mystery jobs and the 3 Deep escort missions, is "Mystery Cube" missions completely separate?

Its confusing because the mystery jobs all involve you transporting or picking up a cube of some sort.

If they are separate, whats the condition to getting these Mystery Cube quests? Are they given in the job board or do you have to go to shipdocks? . Ive met with the hai, finished the There will be riots quest, explored terminus via the mission.

[NvMe 令]

Same goes for the project hawking mission, what are the requirements for it? It looks like ive met the requirements for it, is it a spaceport mission as well?

[NvMe 令]

Nevermind, turns out the mystery cube mission is indeed separate from the delivery variants, since there is no info on it online, you know you got the right quest when you hit the spaceport and Deep Secuirty officer mentions a specific pirate called Bezzebleb (cant be bothered to correct it). If you check your save file it should look like this:

"Deep: Mystery Cubes 0: active"
"Deep: Mystery Cubes 0: offered"

If you cant find it then you havent encountered the event yet

Still unsure about Porject Hawking thought

[NvMe 令]

Update: Got a mysterious message and was ordered to go back to Deep space and had a chat with a Deep office which answered my questions, afterwards a group of scientists (you know its the correct event when you are busy arguing with a fruit seller) asked to be transported around and you overhear them mention Project Hawking, im assuming this is the Project Hawking quest!

Edit: Finished ferrying the scientists around and went back to Deep territory and finished it. I checked my save file and this is what i found:

"Deep: Project Hawking: Carbuncle: failed"
"Deep: Project Hawking: Carbuncle: offered"
"Deep: Project Hawking: Prime: failed"
"Deep: Project Hawking: Prime: offered"
"Deep: Project Hawking: Vinci: failed"
"Deep: Project Hawking: Vinci: offered"
"Deep: Project Hawking: done"
"Deep: Project Hawking: offered"

and also

"Terminus exploration: declined"
"Terminus exploration: offered"

No idea what the 3 failed project hawking missions means and declining terminus is also interesting since im assuming its the mission where you help scientists get back a drone near a wormhole in terminus, i finished this very early in my playthrough so maybe that has something to do with it?

I would greatly appreciate some input from someone who knows more than i do, do you need a specific combat rating or something?

I tried deleting the lines above to try to trigger them again but each time when i edit my save file my combat rating resets back to 0 no matter what i do. (Killing a few pirates to get some combat rating points, exit game and then try to edit the combat rating number, didnt work, etc )

[NvMe 令]

Removed both terminus lines and after awhile got offered it again, after that when passing by on Deep worlds i got signalled by a Deep officer that the scientists were captured.

For those who havent done this quest yet, this is basically the final hurdle in getting your lisence, jump to the pirate world (Arneb, could be randomised) and then jump back out to Deep territory.

You dont actually need to fight a bunch if you have a sizeable escort, you just need to land on the pirate world (for the mission, you dont have to pay a bribe). Once landed a pirate Bacterian will spawn, you could try for a capture but it gets very hectic so i opted to blow it up instead. Once you head back to Deep territory you will be given a license.

From online forums, ive seen repeatedly that you need to do the Depp Remnant missions to get the lisence but im not sure since ive never done them (nor have ive been contacted by a person called Ivan yet)

I should probably delete this disscussion post but i'll leave it up since info on this quest gets confusing when trying to find it online as no one gets into specific details that get left out.

[Timerlane]

Originally posted by NvMe 令:

From online forums, ive seen repeatedly that you need to do the Depp Remnant missions to get the lisence but im not sure since ive never done them (nor have ive been contacted by a person called Ivan yet)

Yeah, I believe that got changed at some point. I believe Project Hawking is now the only direct prerequisite for the scientist rescue event, and completing the 'Cubes' chain is the only direct prerequisite in turn for that.

The Deep Remnant/Terminus missions aren't even offered until the main campaign is completed now, which is nice for those looking for some of the newer 'minor story' missions in the Deep.