Starfield Surgical Strike: How to Find Maya Cruz

Starfield’s Surgical Strike is a Freestar Collective quest to track down Maya Cruz. After uncovering her facade at the clinic and getting blown up in the face by her explosives, it’s revealed that she went into hiding at the Abandoned Asteroid Mine in the Eklund Excavation Site CL25. So off you go with your ship to an entire different galaxy just to track her down. Though it’s not hard to pinpoint her location, the mines are dark and crawling with mine turrets, explosives, and some tricky obstacles.

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Starfield’s Surgical Strike: How to Find Maya Cruz in the Abandoned Asteroid Mine

Before handing you the steps to find Maya, just keep in mind that this area is full of crafting and gear containers. However, at the moment, it’s full of traps and deadly robots. That makes looting kind of hard.

Once you get to the bottom of the mines, there’ll be a chance to deactivate everything through a computer. Everything will still be available for looting after you’re done with Maya; just don’t forget to do a double-take later.

Starfield: Should You Spare or Kill Maya in Surgical Strike?

Once Maya has been taken down, she will stay on her knees, giving you a choice: should you kill or let her go?

Sparing or killing Maya in this quest doesn’t have much of an impact on the story. In the end, you get an Encrypted Slate with confidential information that’ll carry the quest further either way.

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You should choose to align more with your character’s values and background. If you’re the ruthless kind of character, then finishing off Maya in Starfield’s Surgical Strike seems like a solid option. Are you going for more of a paragon? Perhaps sparing her is the better choice. In any case, don’t expect a thank you note anytime soon. In fact, she’ll be making fun of you quite soon.

I play a character with more or less strong moral values, but her mining turrets gave me way too much trouble to even entertain the thought of forgiveness. Plus, I got some nice EXP and loot from killing her: the Arc Welder heavy weapon and some ammo for it.

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Cande Maldonado

Though Cande started her journey in the video game industry as a localization specialist six years ago, she soon realized that her true calling was to annoy NPCS, smash virtual pottery, and complete every side quest available in RPGs. Throwing that useless degree out of the window, she has been writing professionally for the past three years ever since. Her passion for games dates to 2006, when she mounted a Chocobo for the first time. Under Nintendo and Square Enix's chokehold, she will willingly pour hours upon hours into reaching 100% completion in the longest roleplaying games ever made. But hey, who needs fresh air and sunlight when you can just live in Ivalice?

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