Ratchet & Clank: Part 18: Qwarking Things Up in Gemlik Base
7Back at Drek's main base, he gave Captain Qwark his biggest mission, yet. He is to go to Gemlik Base and KILL Ratchet & Clank when they get there with a star fighter that he made.
Despite having tried that before with the Snagglebeast, Qwark was hesitant to kill that duo, himself. Drek threatened to kill his endorsement with him if Qwark didn't comply, which would then ruin his reputation as a great hero.
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When Ratchet & Clank reach the Gemlik Moonbase, Ratchet had a spidey-sense that Qwark was waiting for him, there, but Clank realized that both Qwark and Drek may have already left.
The Galactic Duo decided to search the base for a faster ship than the one they had.
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(1:53 - What the hell was that noise...?)
To get through this space station, you mainly need to focus on destroy some towers to unlock force fields that bring you further through the base. You need either the Devastator or the Visibomb Gun to blow them up.
There are also a lot of Trespasser puzzles, here. One of them will let you reach some of the enemies closer so that you can get through some paths that they would've otherwise guarded against you. Others are just more doors and "force fields" for you to unlock.
Check the laser lineups, for 6:22, 9:34, 17:36.
Also on this base, there is a Skill Point called "Sitting Ducks". There are thick, black and orange cargo ships sitting around throughout the base. You have to blow them all up, and you can easily do this by throwing a Visibomb at them.
There is one cargo ship inside the base, and it's in the last grand area of the level where you'll have to fight a bunch of Blarg soldiers and their multiplying Robosquawker pets. Make sure you take down the machine that keeps making more of these things, too. There can be so many enemies on the screen that the game will LAG!
Get through this area, and you'll reach the base's end very soon.
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Captain Qwark finally appeared before Ratchet again. Ratchet, infested with his own revenge, leapt at Qwark in a rage, but Qwark jumped back to ride on a much bigger star fighter. Ratchet & Clank chase after him with a new fighter of their own.
You can easily damage Qwark's ship buy shooting down the jet engines that will be facing towards you with your missiles. Qwark will retaliate with his how missiles, mines, a tractor beam, and even some Blarg ships. Don't crash into any asteroids, or it's instant death.
If you can defeat Captain Qwark, here, you will send him plummeting deep into planet Olantis, thus finally fulfilling Ratchet's revenge.
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Although Ratchet finally killed Qwark, Clank was still very urgent of how this distract them from finding the REAL enemy, Drek. Ratchet continued to revel in his victory against Qwark, but he decided to help Clank out a bit more after they found a new ship to chase after Drek with.
And then they found another Infobot, one with a very alarming message... Olantis was being brutally ravaged by Drek's surprise forces. It was even worse than Clank had imagined, and Drek was planning to threaten the rest of the galaxy with this.
It was at this very moment that Ratchet realized how selfish he was being about hunting down Qwark over Drek, even then, Clank encouraged him that it was not yet too late to stop Drek at this point.
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If this game's story was split up into Acts, then this would be the end of Act 2. It started with Ratchet starting his revenge against Qwark and being meaner to Clank through it all, and after having gotten his revenge, he realized how much of a jerk he was being.
Ratchet & Clank are now entirely focused on stopping Drek, and they had enough time to fix their friendship through this all. My "Act 3" would be the start of this quest and the last leg of this game's story.