Astillero Blackout

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Astillero Blackout
Mission in Just Cause 4
Type	Region strike.
To unlock	Take over some nearby province.
Starting location	Prospero Astillero.
Reward	The Delta Río Wanay region is unlocked for capture, which, when taken over, will make supply drop items restock 14% faster.

Astillero Blackout is a mission in Just Cause 4.

Introduction

Quote from the map marker: "Cutting off the power to the control tower managing the shipyard will render the facility useless to the Black Hand."

This base is mentioned by Sargento to be the main shipyard (ship factory) of the Prospero company. Capturing it would improve the navy of the Army of Chaos.

Walkthrough

Get to the port and grapple yourself to the marked guard tower. Activating a computer there will activate 5 other computers at guard towers where Rico must enter a code within three and a half minutes.

All the Black Hands at the base will try to stop you, but they should be ignorable while grappling/parachuting/wingsuiting your way around. The only enemies worth killing are the soldiers at the guard towers.

Once that's done, you have to disable some "main power consoles" at two bunkers that can only be entered by a certain type of boat. The computers next to the bunker's armored doors say that you need a "Daggershark Jetboat" to enter one of them and a "Stormwater Patrol Boat" for the other. See the gallery below for what they look like. The waters around the base have lots of Black Hand boats, so it shouldn't be too difficult to locate them.

These bunkers are identical. There is a small row of naval mines in front of the bunkers. They each contain some shipping containers, a computer (that you need to use) and three soldiers. When a computer is used here, it activates a small machine gun turret on the wall above the computer.

Next you have to disable a backup generator, a "turbine generator" on top of the large central bunker. This is a device built into the wall of a building. It needs to be pulled out of the wall using the "retractor" feature on the grappler. This exposes the red parts that need to be blown up.

The final stage of the mission is about stopping the factory's general and commandante from escaping with some prototype weapons that they had been developing here. They each leave in a Stormwater Patrol Boat. You have two and a half minutes to stop them.

Boarding one of these boats will make the enemy jump out, but it's impossible to hijack the boats. The boats have to be blown up. If you don't have the right weapon for the job, hijack one of the nearby other boats and use its machine gun turret.

The mission ends once the second patrol boat is destroyed.

Trivia

• The "turbine generator" is the same as the generators at the Muro Fortaleza dam that are destroyed in the mission Fortaleza Release.
• This mission reveals the Black Hand apparently have a rank of "commandante." However, he (or she) is still promptly killed at the end of this mission.
  • Commandante is a term first introduced in Just Cause 3, but those were used to describe high ranking military officials. See more here. One being present in the Black Hand would imply there would be more than one than just the one featured in this mission. However, this term is never heard before or after this mission. This implies there is only one person holding this rank in the Black Hand.
  • Why this is so is highly impractical and dangerous, because if there truly was only one of this rank, that would make the holder of that rank extremely valuable to an enemy force, because once he (or she) is eliminated, that would essentially mean an extremely rare part of the military high command is defeated, never to be found again.

Gallery

Get to the 5 guard towers.

This is what the needed boats look like.

Be careful of the mines near the bunkers.

Inside one of the bunkers.

Turbine generator location.

Stop the enemy escape.

Blowing up the enemy boat.