Close to your starting point you'll find a structure of steam shafts, either take the tallest (1) or the middle one to enter the planet. To do so place yourself above the door and as soon as it opens afterburn in and to the side so you can hide in a small circular niche (2) which prevents you from getting blown out again. As soon as the second door closes repeat the procedure and you're in; sometimes it works in one attempt skipping the niche. Some people have reported that either the highest stack didn't open and/or the middle one didn't close so they just couldn't get into the planet. It seems to be another bug so the only thing you can do is to reload your save game and retry.

Once inside you got to activate the Cooling System which opens one of the Heat Domes on the surface. On your way to the trigger (3) you'll pass through a circular object which has a flamejet in it. To disable the flames shoot the 3 red squares on the outside of the object and you can get into it unharmed. This level isn't difficult yet awfully complex so it's up to you wether you get the fullmap or follow the Guidebot only.

passing the Heat Domes

Once you've disabled the Cooling System get back to the surface and enter the first of the now unlocked Heat Domes. Hit the trigger inside to disable the forcefield and blow up the generator which unlocks the next Dome. Don't forget to shoot those smaller fans, they all keep some goodies behind. The last Dome leads into the planet again where you'll come to a very large fan that immediately sucks you down into it thus shredding you to bits. There's a trigger on the opposite wall that reverses the fan so you get blown up to the top where you can "cut off" a structure that falls down and destroys the fan. Alternatively, just afterburn over it and check the smaller fans behind one of which is an invulnerabilty so you can let yourself getting sucked down wihtout getting destroyed.

On your way to the control room you pass by a large security tower; to enter it simply use missiles or Vauss to destroy the glass windows; avoid the forcefield and generator in the lower part. Once you arrived in the control room shoot the switch that's placed in front of the other 3 and then the middle switch, this will call the elevator down and unlock the frigate so it can depart.

find your way to secret level 1

On your way to the control room you'll possibly pass by a tunnel that has a damaged data cartridge that contains information on a secret SRAD weapons plant. Just disable the forcefield via the switch and you can grab it. Now complete the level the usual way (freeing the frigate) and you'll automatically get to the first secret level.

	Demo: d308entrance.zip (540 KB)	shot
1	start
2	entrance to the mine
3-5	Heat Domes
6	this is where you come out again
	Demo: d308datacartridge.zip (318 KB)	shot
1	switch to disable forcefield
2	damaged data cartridge