Salvage Operation

Salvage Operation is the sixth mission in the Nod campaign of Tiberian Sun.

Background
After Slavik took back the Brotherhood's most holy ground in Sarajevo, Kane instructed Slavik and the Montauk crew to deliver an alien ship to him where it contained the Tacitus. However when the Montauk arrived at the hangar, the ship was not there. Just then a transmission from General Vega came through to the Montauk. Vega took the ship to "settle an old score in South America" but crash-landed in Texas, deep in GDI territory. CABAL managed to locate the craft and considered Vega's forces there to be "expendable".

Locating the alien ship
Because the ship crash-landed in GDI territory, Slavik could ill-afford to launch a full-scale assault to retrieve the Tacitus without Kane or GDI knowing. What was worse was that Vega may attempt to evacuate the Tacitus out of the area. Instead, Slavik had to insert a small team and utilise stealth to avoid GDI patrols. The team was inserted at a town and witnessed a bullet train go past. Having eliminated the GDI sentries in the town, Slavik's team followed the rail line and slipped past the patrolling Titans. Infantry patrols were harder to avoid and minor skirmishes broke out. With the team now wounded they slipped past a GDI landing zone and located the crashed Scrin ship.

Retrieving the Tacitus
An engineer went inside the ship only to discover the Tacitus was nowhere to be found. The team also realised that Vega must be attempting to get the Tacitus out of the area via the bullet train. The team now pursued the train and followed the railway line, this time trying to slip past Vega's patrols. Ironically GDI's arrival of reinforcements had captured most of Vega's attention, giving Slavik's team some time to infiltrate Vega's base. When in position, the team rushed in and, under fire from Vega's forces destroyed the train before it left and recovered the Tacitus.

Aftermath
Once the Tacitus was delivered to Kane, Nod infiltrated inside the alien ship. However the team was ambushed by the Forgotten mutants. Slavik immediately ordered for the mutant female Umagon to be captured.