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Okay, now I KNOW the game hates me for calling my ship Orange Juice.

Flying through a slug nebula. I pick up a Mantis crew member and stick him in the transporter room. I come across a slug ship, teleport him over to cause some havoc. He even manages to kill one, though his primary job was to distract from repairs.

Slugs contact me with a surrender. I say, "sure, gimme your stuff". Battle music ends...and then the slug ship spontaneously explodes, taking my Mantis along with it 

ETA: And there goes my Zolton engineer, killed in combat against two Mantises in the medbay. Goddammit.

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With BatComp damaged, you're not quite as combat effective as you could be. Nevertheless, your reaction times are still far better than most any organic, and you don't freeze up in panic. The point-defense clusters begin to track the missiles' progress, and you raise your battle screen just in case. At 73.890% efficiency, it will hopefully be sufficient.

The clusters spit out streams of charged particle bolts; not the most accurate of weapons at the best of times, but the sheer volume of fire ensures that they don't really need to be. 13 of the missiles are shot down in mid-air, and one detonates harmlessly against your battle screen (4). That last one only hit because the range was so short. You note with some amusement that the missiles seem to be nothing more than air-to-air designs, deadly against things like your drones but not designed to deal with anything like yourself.

There are seven skimmers in the air. 5 of them are killed in the first repeater volley (4), and the last two manage to get off another pair of missiles each before they are destroyed (6). Now that your systems are warming up though, they present no challenge and are shot down well short of you (5).

The entire engagement takes only 2.653 seconds.

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The drones are quickly recalled, all ports are sealed, and you activate your internal dampeners to brace for the shock. Their condition is fairly poor, but they'll do their best to keep power surges and fires from spreading inside your shell.

With a deafening blast, the charges blow! The scrap heap is thrown away in all directions...and some of it flies straight up, only to obey the law of gravity and come crashing back down (6). The impacts are enough to dent even your mighty flintsteel hull in places, but the damage is mostly superficial (3).

With the thrill of imminent battle racing through your circuits, you throw full power to all tracks and surge free of what rubble remains and bring up your battered Battle Computer.

Hyper-Heuristic Mode Active. BatComp currently operating at 40% capacity.

A quick glance at your sensors reveals...nothing (1)? That can't be right...

It takes a precious 3.500 seconds to locate the skimmers with your optical heads. 3.500 seconds, during which the pilots of those vehicles have begun to recover from the shock of your explosive entrance. The lead skimmer launches two missiles at you just as you finally spot it in the sky. As your port infinite repeater battery swings around to target the aircraft, a dozen more are launched. You have no idea what sort of warheads those things carry, but you don't want them to hit if you can avoid it.


The skimmers will be shot at next turn. How do you want to deal with the incoming missiles?

Slade really was pretty awesome in the Teen Titans series. Seems like most of the best fight scenes involved him in some way. And who can forget the episode Haunted?

I'm not good enough to participate, but I'd probably watch

Lingonberries are the best. The only place I've ever seen lingonberry-flavored stuff in the US is Ikea, though.

That might explain it. We don't have any IKEAs around here, the grocery stores don't stock the stuff, and any "specialty import" stores would probably gouge the price so much that I'd never give them a second glance

Correct, they do not use ammunition. However, Brave is still under a mountain of debris - no one has ordered to trigger the demolitions yet