The AI (or RNG) decided to play hardball earlier: It fired three missiles in a row at my weapons room, all of which hit with around 45% evasion, resulting in the deaths of two of my crewmembers who had been trying to repair the weapons as well as a hull breach there. That didn't stop my run, but missiles did end up being my undoing.
I have yet to find any way to really stop them, but then, I have yet to acquire a defense drone on a ship that has a drone control system. Probably this ship would have been a good candidate for saving scrap to buy a drone control system, considering how ridiculously many drones it threw at me throughout that game.
I was flying a Slug cruiser, which is the first ship other than the engie Torus that I've found, and wiping out ship crews with the anti-bio beam, after upgrading the main weapon and adding an ion weapon, although I was not very impressed with the ion weapon and was having difficulty damaging any systems behind strength 2 shields; I could only knock them down momentarily - long enough to fire the anti-bio beam - unless I used bombs or missiles.
(I've still only made it to the flagship once, and then with an engie ship which was woefully unprepared, and jumped into the flagship's system with half my critical systems broken and over 75% hull damage due to having been cut off by the rebels on approach with time running out, with no cloak, no defense drones, no transporter, no bombs, no weapons other than basic ship attack drones, an ion cannon, missiles, and a piddly gun... On Easy. That was my second game, and I figured that my mistake was fleeing the rebel fleet too quickly and doing no exploring, whereas my mistake in my first game was being caught by them and then not being able to escape at all (every time I jumped, they advanced and I was still in rebel territory).)
This run seemed to be going better, but then I just couldn't find a way to stop missiles or repair the damage without throwing all my scrap at shops. (Even with high evasion)
I know what I need, but it seems like everything has to go perfectly at the right time to get the right stuff (when instead Murphy's Law tends to apply
).
(It is definitely Fun. :V)