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Contents

  • Essentials
    • INTRODUCTION
      • Humanity's Ascension
    • TRAINING
      • Introduction
      • Mission Computer & HUD
      • Character Creation
      • Character Classes
      • Character Management
      • Transportation and Commerce
      • Combat
      • Weapons and Armor
      • Powers
      • Enemies
    • CAST OF CHARACTERS
      • Squad Members
      • Dossiers
    • UPGRADES AND RESEARCH PROJECTS
      • Upgrading Technology
      • Weapon Upgrades
      • Cybernetics and Shield Upgrades
      • Medical/Health Upgrades
      • Bio-Amp and Omni-Tool (Tech) Upgrades
      • Squad Member Upgrades
      • Normandy Upgrades
    • PLANETARY DATABASE
      • Explorers of the 24th Century
      • Planets by Clusters
      • Cluster: Caleston Rift
      • Cluster: Crescent Nebula
      • Cluster: Eagle Nebula
      • Cluster: Far Rim
      • Cluster: Hades Nexus
      • Cluster: Hawking Eta
      • Cluster: Hourglass Nebula
      • Cluster: Ismar Frontier
      • Cluster: Krogan DMZ
      • Cluster: Local Cluster (Solar System)
      • Cluster: Minos Wasteland
      • Cluster: Nubian Expanse
      • Cluster: Omega Nebula
      • Cluster: The Phoenix Massing
      • Cluster: Pylos Nebula
      • Cluster: Rosetta Nebula
      • Cluster: Serpent Nebula
      • Cluster: Shadow Sea
      • Cluster: The Shrike Abyssal
      • Cluster: Sigurd's Cradle
      • Cluster: Titan Nebula
      • Cluster: Valhallan Threshold
    • APPENDIX
      • Achievements & Trophies
      • Shop Inventories
  • Walkthrough
    • WALKTHROUGH
      • Prologue: Normandy Lost
      • Prologue: Awakening
      • Freedom's Progress
      • Normandy SR-2
      • Citadel and Dossier: The Master Thief
      • Omega and Dossier: The Veteran
      • Dossier: The Professor
      • Dossier: Archangel
      • Dossier: The Convict
      • Dossier: The Warlord
      • Horizon
      • Dossiers, Part 2
      • Dossier: The Engineer
      • Illium
      • Dossier: The Justicar
      • Dossier: The Assassin
      • The Collector Ship
      • Loyalty: Dedication Before Bravery
      • Jacob's Loyalty: The Gift of Greatness
      • Miranda's Loyalty: The Prodigal
      • Kasumi's Loyalty: Stealing Memory
      • Zaeed's Loyalty: The Price of Revenge
      • Jack's Loyalty: Subject Zero
      • Tuchanka
      • Mordin's Loyalty: Old Blood
      • Grunt's Loyalty: Rite of Passage
      • Garrus's Loyalty: Eye for an Eye
      • Tali's Loyalty: Treason
      • Samara's Loyalty: The Ardat-Yakshi
      • Thane's Loyalty: Sins of the Farther
      • Derelict Reaper: Acquire Reaper IFF
      • Normandy Attacked
      • Legion's Loyalty: A House Divided
      • Endgame
      • Endgame: Collector Station
    • SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS
      • Overview
      • Firewalker: MSV Rosalie
      • Firewalker: Artifact Collection
      • Firewalker: Geth Incursion
      • Firewalker: Recover Research Data
      • Firewalker: Prothean Ruin
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Learning Liara's Information
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Dracon Trade Center
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Azure Hotel
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Shadow Broker's Ship
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Shadow Broker's Ship (Interior)
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Defeating the Shadowbroker
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Aftermath
      • Overlord: Hermes Station
      • Overlord: Vulcan Station
      • Overlord: Prometheus Station
      • Overlord: Atlas Station
      • Hub World Assignments: Normandy
      • Hub World Assignments: Citadel
      • Hub World Assignments: Illium
      • Hub World Assignments: Tuchanka
    • N7 ASSIGNMENTS
      • Introduction
      • N7: Abandoned Mine
      • N7: Anomalous Weather Detected
      • N7: Blood Pack
      • N7: Blue Suns
      • N7: Eclipse
      • N7: Endangered Research Station
      • N7: Hahne-Kedar Mechs
      • N7: Imminent Ship Crash
      • N7: Javelin Missiles
      • N7: Lost Operative
      • N7: Mining the Canyon
      • N7: MSV Estevanico
      • N7: Normandy Crash Site
      • N7: Quarian Crash Site

Mass Effect 2 Guide › Walkthrough › N7 ASSIGNMENTS

Introduction

[001]

[002]

N7 assignments are much more involved than those you take on in the hub worlds. These assignments send you crisscrossing the galaxy in search of trouble spots that require your attention.

These missions play out much like main story missions. You go to a world, select an away team, and then fight your way toward the goal.

When the mission is complete, you earn experience, credits, and any minerals you find along the way.

There are two ways to find N7 assignments. A handful of the assignments are brought to your attention via your private terminal [001] .

These messages give you the general parameters of the assignment and tell you where to start looking. However, most of the N7 missions must be found by scanning planets [002] .

Now, you could scan the planets one by one in search of all of the N7 missions. But why not just use our list of all N7 assignments to cut short the detective work?

Caution

Don’t skip mining trips just because you know where to find all of the N7 missions. You need to mine minerals if you want to complete the majority of the upgrade research projects offered in Mordin’s lab aboard the Normandy .

Use your scanner to seek out anomalies on the surfaces of planets. Follow the white arrow on the scanner to the exact spot of the signal. When you drop a probe on a signal source, you can then land your shuttle.

Not all of the missions are available right away. Several of the N7 assignments are unlocked one after the other, in sequence. Completing one opens the lead to another.

It is also important to open up as many clusters on your galaxy map as possible to find all of the N7 assignments. To open up all of the clusters, you must first:

Continue your main walkthrough missions, as some clusters are accessible only after particular missions are completed.

Buy all four star charts from the Baria Frontiers store kiosk in Illium—these place the Minos Wasteland, Hades Nexus, Pylos Nebula, and Shrike Abyssal on your galaxy map.

Locate all of the DLC packs to ensure your galaxy map is complete. Consult the Planetary Database to learn where to find all the different clusters, systems, and planets.

Without opening the clusters, you cannot see them. Some clusters are only revealed after you finish up an assignment in a sequence.

Tip

Check the strategies for each assignment before determining your away team. For example, if you know you are about to face down geth on Canalus, you might wish to bring an engineer if you are not one yourself.

Use this table to track all of the N7 assignments. The table lists how the assignment is discovered.

If the assignment is just found via a scan, then go straight to the planet and scan it. Assignments received only via your private terminal are noted.

Assignments that are links in a chain are marked as “After” with the name of the planet involved in the previously required N7 assignment or main mission.

For precise galactic locations of each assignment, consult the assignment itself.

Assignment Name Unlocked
N7: Abandoned Mine By Scanning Planet > Aequitas
N7: Anomalous Weather Detected By Scanning Planet > Canalus
N7: Blood Pack > Blood Pack Base By Scanning Planet > Zada Ban
N7: Blood Pack > Blood Pack Communications Relay After Completing N7: Blood Pack > Blood Pack Base, or by Scanning Planet > Tarith
N7: Blue Suns > Archeological Dig Site After Accepting Jacob’s Loyalty: The Gift of Greatness
N7: Blue Suns > MSV Strontium Mule After Completing N7: Blue Suns > Archeological Dig Site
N7: Blue Suns > Blue Suns Base After Completing N7: Blue Suns > MSV Strontium Mule
N7: Eclipse > Captured Mining Facility By Scanning Planet > Helyme
N7: Eclipse > Eclipse Smuggling Depot By Scanning Planet > Daratar
N7: Endangered Research Station After Completing Mission: Horizon, then Scanning Planet > Moon > Sinmara
N7: Hahne-Kedar Mechs > Wrecked Merchant Freighter By Scanning Planet > Neith
N7: Hahne-Kedar Mechs > Abandoned Research Station After Completing N7: Hahne-Kedar Mechs > Wrecked Merchant Freighter
N7: Hahne-Kedar Mechs > Hahne-Kedar Facility After Completing N7: Hahne-Kedar Mechs > Abandoned Research Station
N7: Imminent Ship Crash Via Email from Personal Terminal
N7: Javelin Missiles After Completing N7: Blue Suns > Blue Suns Base or by Scanning Planet > Moon > Franklin
N7: Lost Operative After Acquiring Normandy, then Scanning Planet > Lorek
N7: Mining the Canyon By Scanning Planet > Taitus
N7: MSV Estevanico By Scanning Planet > Zanethu
N7: Normandy Crash Site After Receiving Missive from Admiral Hackett, then Scanning Planet > Alchera
N7: Quarian Crash Site By Scanning Planet > Gei Hinnom

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