System Xivia Theta (New Faction Event, Requirements Changed)

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Drakador_Chaos (Haha, I like your resourcefulness, something I sorely miss)

The Ship slammed into the cargo hold, which then tripped the explosions. It exploded into a thousand peices, and parts of plant matter flew everywhere.

However, that may not have been the best idea you could have had. Bits of plant matter were flying everywhere including your general direction. If even a bit gets onto your ship, you will still end up a greenery. Furthermore, whatever black box may have been on the ship before is likely no longer with us.

Drakador_Chaos

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(may I add that I didn´t say he´d trigger the explosives yet? The Impact could´ve ofcourse triggered some of them, if it had enough force, but they are stored relatively safely as he logically planned on using them himself somewhen without blowing his ship up.)

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Drakador_Chaos (oh. I would have assumed they were contact explosives, but I respect it if they're not contact, like C4 for example. Scratch everything I said.)

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Drakador_Chaos The ship smacked into the container.

RedAndCosmoteer

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(No, if that's drak's ship, then he has THREE reactors.)

Well, they found the scout... "Alright, activate pulsed plasma weapons... Advance forward, but do not move at a speed more than one kilometer per second relative to the scout. Move to within a standard knife-fight range of five kilometers." The ship accelerated forward, and then cruised along at a slow speed, and they turned off their engines, the laws of physics did the rest. After they got within five kilometers, the captain ordered them to start scanning...
(check bak ina few hours)

RedAndCosmoteer

cofh @jbox1

RedAndCosmoteer

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RedAndCosmoteer An FTL signature appeared, and there were two ships. One was completely covered in moss, but shared a strange resemblence to the ship you were after. The other was a utility vessel, armed with various high end fighter weaponry. Scans also showed a regular sized lunch had been recently jettisoned from the airlock of the ship.

Drakador_Chaos

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...The mercenary keeps an eye on the ship and the container, while getting some distance to see wether it would try to take the container over or something along the lines, in the meanwhile he started to contact the Xivia colony and sent some of the most recent images along...
"So, I think I found your ship, do I get paid for this?"

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Drakador_Chaos You have to retrieve the blackbox or crew to get paid

you probably won't be able to achieve either

Drakador_Chaos

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...the man mumbled some foreign curse and turned the transmission off...
He looked at the spacefaring flowerpot in the distance and started thinking, a few minutes later he headed off to the fridge and took a chunk of meat out of it, and then threw it out of the airlock towards the scout, to see what it would do with biomatter...

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RedAndCosmoteer oh, gib time

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Drakador_Chaos RedAndCosmoteer

sorry! sorry! I'm so sorry I didn't reply. I'll give you a rubdown of my good and not so good reasons for not replying:

Got Factorio via a stream gift card after Christmas.
Became addicted to Factorio
Became addicted to Factorio multilayer
Had an internet outage
Played Garry's Mod instead
Internet came back on after some days wait
Started playing G Mod multiplayer
Became addicted to (admittedly bitter sweet) G Mod multiplayer
Racked up 3 days on one server
Realised I far forgotten all about this
Wrote his message (on a phone mind you)

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Drakador_Chaos A carefully timed cycling of the airlock jetisoned the cheap lunch towards the ship. The meat quickly froze over on one side, and was roasted on the other, being exposed to the harsh energy of space. The rapid exchanging of heat energy caused the meat to snap into two parts, which both headed towards different sides of the ship.

The meat that hit the side opposite the sun was snagged by some thorns growing out of the ship. There was no immediate response yet to the bio matter. Meanwhile, the other chunk of meat that broke off hit the sunny side of the ship. Strangely, the meat on this side bounced off. There was clearly plant matter there, but it seemed to lack any sort of strength to it.

You also noticed that the ship was now transmitting a signal. It was a garbled mess, and your ships onboard translation software didn't even register it as a language. The transmission then cut off again.

The ship shaped flower pot was now turning back to where it came from. The FTL drive was spinning up.

RedAndCosmoteer

jbox1 That's okay.

Factorio makes you lose your family. And your friends. And your cousins. And it makes you think that twelve hours is five minutes of factory-designing. And makes you say, "One more hour." until school. And it makes you want to make your factory more efficient. And more complex.

Drakador_Chaos

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...the mercenary started thinking, he had no interdictors or emp rounds, the grenades were in the cargo he had detached earlier, which means that there were only two possibilities left...
He threw a coin.
Heads.
He activated the ships weapon systems and started aiming his plasma blasters at the ftl drives of the ship and fired a few salvos, trying not to blow the entire ship up...

RedAndCosmoteer

jbox1 The little Illateri survey vessel continued using it's fusion drives... More multispectral scanning waves appeared from it's scanner array while it continues moving ever so closer to the little vessels...

(sorry i compeltely forgot!)

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Drakador_Chaos The plasma rounds were surprisingly effective. The plants seemed to become more docile the instant you launched the rounds. They actually didn't even hit before the plants retreated to the internals of the ship. This left the FTL drive completely vulnerable. The plasma bolt hit the FTL drive's weak spot. An FTL fuel rod was launched out the drive's view port and the drive released a shower of sparks.

Drakador_Chaos

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...the mercenary nodded satisfied as the weapon systems powered back down...
"Now, how do I...?"
He went to one of the security lockers and equipped himself with a few plasma torches and a daylight lamp, and moved his ship into position near the scout, careful not to block the sunlight towards the scout, before leaving his ship he observed the scout for a few more minutes...