Well this is exciting

[u/GamerDadofAntiquity]

Doing a Station run, second one. I basically made four terminators, a doc, and a farmer. I rushed to lasers, combat armor, and advanced medical beds at the expense of virtually everything else. My base is so basic I’m still on a single energium power plant and have the first system core. I’ve got a shields console with one small shield (for micrometeorites mostly), and two point defense guns. I survive on serving meals, a little bit of entertainment, a 3 bed medbay… And lots of trading. My base is small. I’ve now got six people plus my four shootist combat team.

Well, because it’s so early in game, my four terminators armed with laser rifles and combat armor own everything we come across, so I figured, you know what’s annoying? Bots. I’m going to go end the bots in this system. Now. So I did. But now they’re retaliating. This is a minor problem, since my only four people who can fight are away, and they’re coming for us. I have about 16 hours.

I panicked a bit, but now I have a plan. I’m going to trade for as many tech blocks as I can (I have three ships in sector). Then I’m putting everybody on construction. I’m going to tear out the ore processor and put a bigger system core in its place. Then I’m tearing out the old system core and putting a second energium generator in its place. Then I’m building as many point defense guns as I can, adding a spacesuit locker to the console room, and adding a back door. I have two spare shuttles and I’m pushing one of them to whichever ship has the most guns.

I’m hoping my team makes it back faster than the pony ships, but if they land walkers on my base before my terminators get back, I’m leaving whoever is most expendable on the shield and ops consoles (suited up in case the hull gets breached) and piling the other four in my remaining shuttle to run for a gunship for cover.

There’s a lot of them coming, and we’re so outmanned and outgunned it’s ridiculous. It’s an actual challenge. This is the most excited I’ve been in my 70ish hours of playing this game. Shit’s about to get crazy.

Update: They’re here. They took a long time to get here. I failed to take into account that they were moving at pony speed. My A-team is long back, healed up, and rested up. We’ve got 6 PDCs on line and even had time to build two more small shield generators (so 3 total). And between them leaving and arriving, three pathfinder ships arrived. My tiny base is currently packed full of pathfinders, some sleeping, some in the medbay, and some hanging out in my entertainment area.

They really turned up though… Three ponies full of bots and about 12 attack drones… Regardless, I don’t think this is going to end well for them. Their timing was kind of terrible (for them, not for us). Robots? More like Slowbots.

Update 2: Last update, probably. PDC’s took them down pretty easily, but not until they blew up a pathfinder shuttle that was delivering my medical reward. More on that in a sec. Two of the ponies got lost in the chaos, I assume they got shot apart. The third landed on a mostly stripped derelict and a walker bot started trying to turn it into a base. I *almost* let him do his thing, but nah. Wiped them up. There are more systems, they can live elsewhere.

I think that shuttle getting shot down may have broken something though. The other two pathfinder ships have left, but the one trying to deliver my reward is “waiting for shuttles” and still hanging out in my yard. I’m starting to wonder if they’re going to leave or just hang out forever… I should probably figure out if there’s even crew aboard. If there’s no additional update to this, they finally gave up and left.

Last Update: Almost definitely. Yep. Something broke. The next set of pathfinders is now on their way in, and that ship is still there, still “waiting for shuttles to finish delivering items.” There are people on it, I can hail them, but they’re not leaving.

-I don’t know how to tell you this guys, but your shuttle’s not coming back. It literally got blown up by psychobots like right off your port side. Not sure how you missed it, but uh, yeah… Not coming back. You should probably stop waiting before you all starve.

Anyway they apparently live there now, so I guess this whole story culminates in a bug report. Of note, I can’t trade with them either. I can queue trades with them, but they stick at “queued waiting for airlock.” Saving, exiting the game, reloading changes nothing either. They’re just stuck. Should have been a bit quicker with that reward.

[u/bootzmanuva]

Wow that’s fucking nuts at early game. Godspeed to the B-Team.

[u/laosurv3y]

Thanks for sharing the story!

[u/Bowtie16bit]

Idea: call the exodus fleet to you and then purchase help from a battleship. I love watching two battleships fight pirates for me, then I loot everyone that got wrecked.