Hail to the mighty Rockmen explorers !

[GloW]

After 2 weeks of trying and maybe 30 run, i've finally unlocked the crystal ship on my first run with rock cruiser type B.

I got two engi early on, and pass the first two sector without any prblem, thanks to the piercing laser. so i grab a teleporter and switch two rockmen with the engies so i had a good boarding party.

But still no damaged stasis pod.

I got it in sector three and begin to use the strategy i will use for all this run.
Fire only one fire bomb in the medbay, send my boarding party, kill all ennemy crew.
I coul kill 5human crew without healing my rockmen this way.
But i could not find long ranged scanner to easily find the soltan research station in engi contrlled sector 4.
Sector five was zoltan controlled, so i have still some luck and there is still one red sector after, could be the rock homeworlds.

So i grind all the sector, burning up crew, avoiding distress and quest beacon, still no luck.
The rebel fleet was almost at the exit beacon, but there was still this little beacon after the exit beacon.

I try it, knowing that i would need to fight the rebel going back to the exit.
That was it! a nice zoltan reseach station wich revevie my crystal crew, i put him in the med bay, don't want to take any risk.

going back to the exit, waiting for the ftl tl charge, clicking jump....rock homeworlds !! i got my luck this time !

Three jump after i was in the crytal zone !

I was so excited i almost made some fatal mistake against these unusal crystal ship, but i managed to make it trhough and even got a second piercing crystal laser.

that was it ! crystal cruiser !

The sector 7 and last stand were piece of cake, took some hull damage but nothing too bad.
The fire bomb + rockmen boarder worked also on the big medbay, with only one healing + teleporting back.