Was doing quite well in my Space Haven game - technically the tutorial game but hey it starts out the same! - with 14 crew members and excesses in basically everything I needed to run my ship and keep my crew fit and healthy.
I was cruising around looking for chemicals and derelicts, but ran into pirates.
“Easy peasy,” says I “I have quite some crew from captured and converted pirates attacking my ship.”
Unfortunately this one has ship weapons and I hadn’t installed shield generators to cover my re-charging of the hyperspace engines. They shot me up a bit, and offered a ceasefire, which I rejected ‘cause I have no idea what I’m doing. They destroyed my ship, which I hitherto did not know destroyed all of my pod bags and shuttle bays, of which I had 6 and 2 respectively, and all 4 of my engines. They stopped shooting me, which makes sense given that my ship was now open to the vacuum of space.
I had enough resources to build a pod bay and a shuttle bay, though I had to dismantle two jukeboxes in order to get the tech blocks, because I was going to raid the scummy bastard pirates what did this to me! Unfortunatelt, everyone was dying due to the whole freezing and suffocating thing that vacuum does.
Or so I thought! One person lived! Luckily someone with some weapon skills, enough to wield a laser rifle, and kited out with an armored vest. Reece, the Revenger. I got set his working priorities to construct and he built the shuttle bay, and coasted over to the pirate ship.
Upon entry, a formal declaration of war was made, because why not, and out the shuttle he popped, faced with two pirates protecting the airlock. Reece ran to cover, taking potshots at these “gentlemen” but apparently couldn’t shoot beyond the pirate’s own docked shuttle, necessitating a quick repositioning as they tried to flank him.
Vitner was the first pirate to fall, sizzled by well placed shots, quickly followed by Jon’s near-death surrender. The door to the cargo bay was opened, revealing a nice long corridor populated by three further pirates, angered at the death of one and the cowardice of another of their crew mates.
Reece retreated behind Jon’s previously occupied cover, and took aim at Dan and Flint. One of them had lasers, but both fell to Reece’s well-placed blasts, followed by another surrender from Chris, who was grazed by a laser shot or something I don’t know he was undamaged according to the HUD.
Reece pushed forward, revealing Ellen, the vicious pirate captain further down the corridor, who was blasted and she surrendered on the floor, too broken to continue the fight.
Unfortunately, Kris got a lucky shot in and Reece, the craven piece of shit, surrendered with barely a scratch on him.
… the pirates offered to ransom him back, however, for some credits and supplies, and Reece once again decided to fight the bastards, and once again surrendered to Kris because Kris is apparently nails.
This went on for a few more attempts, one of which resulted in Jon, Ellen, and Chris’ death, before
finally Reece killed Kris and took over the ship.
Unfortunately despite the undamaged nature of the vessel, I couldn’t claim it, so I had to painstakingly replace the hull of my own broken vessel, which is slightly difficult in vacuum because Reece couldn’t sleep or eat or breathe, but we got there in the end, with the aid of some civilian vessels offering to patch up Reece.
Now I have an oversized vessel that I could probably shave a lot of excess hull from to save in hyperfuel, as Reece’s industry skill caps put at 4, and I need 5 to make energy rods to power the ship, and 6 to make hyperfuel so I can actually move the ship.
Reece also can’t grow food, because the only thing he’s capable of is wholesale murder, apparently.
One thing I may be able to do is enslaving people, though it would necessitate declaring war on one faction or another, and then them surrendering to me. I would need someone who can actually make things though, given Reece’s aforementioned shortcomings.
Oh well! A game I thought lost continues for a time, with a not particularly useful crew member and possible murder in the future.
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