I grudgingly accept, cursing myself all the while, as it's offering a generous amount of scrap in exchange for its life. Can we hit, and hard, before they take down our shields? It's putting ourselves at risk, but effectively doubling our damage. I switch out my Defence Drone II (which uses 4 power) for my two attack drones (2 power each). I could end this by fleeing, but I'm living on borrowed time as it is - I don't want to heap any more shame upon myself than I need to. We're locked in an awful stalemate, neither of us doing any damage. A level 4 shield, a couple of drones, a pair of invaders and it's relentlessly and successfully trying to knock my weapons offline. Not quite.Īnother rebel, and this one's got all the tricks. Yay! Still not quite enough scrap for what I want, though. They're in my people's home sector, slaughtering them, seeking to eradicate all they hold dear, and they ask for mercy? I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR. Soon enough though, the babies are pleading for mercy. These blighters have tier 3 shields again, which makes the fight more drawn-out than I'd like. They beam two invaders straight to our cockpit, but as they're mere human fleshbags they're no match for the mighty Security Officer Dengler. Thanks for the assist, guys.Īnother rebel, which is no surprise. Of course, the rebels will have taken this repair yard for their own nefarious, barely-explained purposes soon enough. Free hull repairs! I would have killed for this in the last seven sectors. Straight to a repair yard, seeing as it's so local. I like this enemy ship's compact layout, because I can target 5 rooms at once with my hull beam. We fight or we die, as someone with a buzzcut once said. We jump straight to a rebel ship, of course. I rather think I'd like to avoid the inevitable for now, if it's all the same to you. The immediate question is whether to make a beeline straight for the flagship, lest it get to close to Federation HQ while I'm noodling away on the other side of the sector, or jump around the immediate area trying to raise a few more supplies? Full hull, plenty of fuel, two guns, three drones (can't use 'em all at once, mind), six crew, final sector, the enemy flagship is five jumps away. Its eight-sector mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new weapons and new system upgrades, to boldly go somewhere no-one has come back alive from before (apart from save-scummers). These were the voyages of the Starship Moggy.