📖 Note: this article explains how participants take part in a multi-flag mission, where a single level is completed by capturing several flags.
📖 Note: Multi-flag missions are currently only available in team-based multi-level competitions.
What is a Multi-Flag Mission?
Most challenges on the platform have one flag. A multi-flag mission is a level made up of several flags, worked through as a set.
Each flag is its own challenge, with its own points, proficiency and submission. Solving one is not a prerequisite for any other, so you can attempt them in whatever order you like. The numbering shows the suggested sequence, not a lock.
Opening a Mission
Missions appear alongside the other levels on the competition’s Challenges page. Selecting one shows its summary, with the counters [1] tracking Attempted, Solved and Points across the whole mission.
A Multi Flag Mission badge [2] identifies it, and Open Mission [3] takes you into the mission workspace.
The summary shows the Mission brief [4], the Flags [5] in order with their status and points, and the mission’s combined specialties, proficiencies, skills and estimated time [6]. You can also see the Mission lab and start it from here [7], the most recent message in the mission’s Connor thread [8], and the latest message in team chat [9].
[1] mission counters · [2] Multi Flag Mission badge · [3] Open Mission · [4] Mission brief · [5] flags · [6] combined details · [7] Mission lab · [8] latest Connor message · [9] latest team chat message
VPN Configuration and Jump Box are at the top of the competition header, above the level list.
Working in the Mission
Open Mission opens a full-screen workspace for the mission. The header carries the mission name and counters, a status selector [1] for setting your own status, the Mission lab status and Start Lab control [2], and a close control [3] returning you to the Challenges page. The mission brief sits above the working area.
The flags are listed down the left [4]. Select one to load it, and the selected flag is highlighted. The main panel shows that flag [5] with its position in the mission, points, status, attempt count and skills, and the Submit Flag box [6] is fixed at the foot of the panel.
[1] set your status · [2] Mission lab and Start Lab · [3] close · [4] flags · [5] selected flag · [6] Submit Flag · [7] CONNOR tab · [8] Team Chat tab · [9] one thread for the mission · [10] draggable divider
You can drag the divider [10] between the two panels to give yourself more room to work on the flag, or more room for Connor and team chat.
Connor and Team Chat in a Mission
CONNOR [7] and Team Chat [8] sit together in the right-hand panel, and both are shared across the whole mission rather than being tied to a single flag [9].
This means one Connor conversation covers every flag in the mission. Switching between flags does not start a new thread or lose what you have already discussed, so you can pick up where you left off as you move through the mission. Team chat behaves the same way.
📖 Note: This is different from a standalone challenge, where Connor Coach keeps a separate chat for each challenge. Within a mission there is a single thread for all of its flags.
The Mission Lab
Where a mission has a lab, there is one lab for the whole mission rather than one per flag. You can start it from two places: the Mission lab row on the mission summary [1], or the Mission lab control in the workspace header [2]. Either starts the same lab.
[1] Start Lab on the mission summary · [2] Start Lab in the workspace header
The first start can take up to a minute while the environment is prepared, and the workspace tells you while it is doing so.
Things to Keep in Mind
Flags can be attempted in any order. The order shown is the suggested sequence, and nothing is locked behind solving an earlier flag.
Each flag is submitted on its own and scores on its own, exactly as a single challenge of that proficiency would.
The mission counters aggregate its flags, so Attempted, Solved and Points reflect the mission as a whole.
If something is not working as expected, raise a request with the FIFTH DOMAIN support team from the Helpdesk tab in the Connor panel.