BlueTemplar wrote:Upgrade your teleporter to lvl2 and you can stall them until you can flee. Get any damage-dealing weapon and you can kill them. Medbay as Mantis should be viable too.
I'm not looking for strategies on how to deal with the automated pests. I'm just saying, imagine you're stranded far out in the infinite depths of space and you really want a Clone Bay but no store is selling. For a little bit extra (maybe it doesn't have to be a hundred Scrap but a higher price than stores under Infinite) you fork out some Scrap at an idle beacon and get yourself a Clone Bay.
Heck, the price could be reduced if you have the Backup DNA Bank, DNA Backups Trade Good or that Cloning Augment I once saw which can create a new crew member at the cost of some Scrap (is that still around or was it removed? I've never seen it when playing the game but it's there in Superluminal)