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Tar is right, you know. Cyrus got the Lovers and there's no sign of a Mrs Cyrus in sight

Well, my oddest game ever came to an inglorious end. Seems the RNG got tired of being merciful and pulled out all the stops <_<;

Location: Nebula sector. Status: Out of fuel. I wait around for a turn, and a big Slug ship shows up, with 3 shields and weapons, plus the requisite teleporter. The boarders were more-or-less easily dealt with thanks to the Crystal Alien's ability, but the ship itself was a major pain, single-handedly bringing me down to around 25% hull, making me waste my entire stock of 15 missiles because everything kept missing, and warping away when it was down to three hull points, giving me nothing in return.
Wait again, a ship shows up. Long-range scanners reveal that it is indeed hostile, so I cloak away.
Wait again, with the distress beacon on. No one shows up at all.
Wait once more. A ship offers to trade some fuel for drone parts, which I happily accept.

Ready to warp out, checking the nearby systems for plasma storms, and the game tells me that the rebels are NOT, in fact, being slowed down by this particular nebula sector. In fact, they're right on my tail and would have been on me if I had been forced to wait again.

So I warp right into a big Mantis ship. Fewer shields, but more weapons and I'm still completely out of missiles, leaving me only with a burst laser. Two Manti board right in the middle of the shield room, forcing my crew member to run for it while I desperately attempt to drain air. They make a beeline for the bridge, and in the meanwhile continuous weapon fire has wrecked my weapons room, the life support, and damaged the shields enough that they no longer work. I died without dealing a single point of hull damage to the Mantis ship or even killing the boarding party. Yay.

Yarr! It now be Speak Like a Pirate Day here in California, arr. I wonder what me professors and various mateys will think?

My crappy laptop can run it...barely. It's only a dual-core 2.3 Ghz processor and no real graphics card, but it will at least run using medium-sized rockets on minimum settings.

Just curious about something: if I play, can my character drive this?

Hmm, good point. Most sci-fi I've read deals with this by either shifting your ship into another dimension entirely (and thus, no worries with collesions), jumping you instantly to your destination, or, in the case of warp drives, moving objects smaller than the warp field out of the way and placing them back once you pass.

@ MSH: Yeah, but we're talking about FTL here. Who knows what time will start doing, if we're even still dealing with relativity any more.

Even if it did take a long time to visit neighboring systems, I still say it would be worth it. Remember that for a long time, it took humans months or years to get anywhere here on Earth. Future developments could possibly make FTL faster than "just" 10c.

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I'm genuinely surprised at the number of people in this thread who want to be asexual.

I wouldn't say I want to be asexual. It's just that I'm not getting companionship (iykwim) anyway, so perhaps if I were asexual it wouldn't bother me so much.

So...go out and get what you need?

For me, that's much easier said than done. I'll leave it at that

Dude. I thought I was the forever alone guy too. Then I gained some confidence, and now I have a date set up with someone, not to mention having half of bay12 hitting on me.

You are not unattractive. I haven't seen a picture of you so I don't know about that area, but the personality one I can confidently say you are desirable.

Great, so I'm desirable to gay guys
Just kidding, I appreciate the vote of confidence. Now if only my web personality were the same as my public personality.

@ MZ: Ahem.

EDIT: Found a better version.