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It's a soft gate to encourage spending if you wanted to start the mission chain early. You will have about 9 days to do the Mission Chain after the Repulse is available through a fully Free-to-Play grind.
If you're worried about the grind, it's really not bad. I'm going to be making a thread about how I did it in 5 hours and 15 minutes while in Co-Op only with no special signals.
I streamed it live: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1242209859