In Star Trek Armada *all missions are controlled by "Flags" witch are checkpoints the player must hit before continuing or even finishing the mission.

*NOTE: Most missions have you muster through them. but some missions have exceptions ex. B2 Assimilation.

Vendetta is listed here because players may think they can rush through until the last wormhole. Sadly this is not the case, between flag 5 and 6 there is a sequence in witch 6 Klingon Birds of prey attack the Avenger.

If these 6 ships are not destroyed the game will not check the next flag allowing you to beat the mission. Sadly in this case if you were to continue to the last wormhole without all 6 Klingon ships destroyed the mission will fail and cause the Avenger to be destroyed upon entering the wormhole.

In a logical standpoint this makes 0 sense as the goal of the mission entirely is to get to the last wormhole, But it's how it was programmed so it's how we must exploit.