The Slug hunt

[Zalminen]

Since the Slug ship is the only one still to be unlocked I've been scouring nebulas whenever possible.

Last game looked really promising:


Good news: Yes, this time I did find the Slug home sector (plus several Slug controlled sectors).
Bad news: Didn't actually come across the required event so still no Slug ship.

Damn RNG...

The run was rather amusing in other ways though, as fighting with 3 Ion Blasts and a Halberd Beam made short work of any enemies.
The boss fight was really really close though as I had scored neither drone systems, cloaking nor teleporter by that time - and my armament was still the same 3x Ion Blast + Halberd Beam. By the end of phase 2 my ship resembled swiss cheese, with holes in 5 separate rooms. Even that proved advantageous though as the enemy crew teleporting in during phase 3 happened to end up in one the rooms with a hole and didn't make it through the doors in time to do any damage.
Even without cloaking I had high enough evade and that a lot of the enemy volleys didn't even get past my full shields and to my great surprise I had about 20% hull left when the boss finally fell.
Yay!

[UltraMantis]

...By the end of phase 2 my ship resembled swiss cheese, with holes in 5 separate rooms. Even that proved advantageous though as the enemy crew teleporting in during phase 3 happened to end up in one the rooms with a hole and didn't make it through the doors in time to do any damage...

You gotta love moments like this. Good luck with the hunt.

[Number43]

Wait, you didn't take the time to repair the hull breaches before jumping to the next stage?

[Zalminen]

Wait, you didn't take the time to repair the hull breaches before jumping to the next stage?

Didn't really see any need to spend all that time - sealing one room, healing the guys, sealing the next room...

There was only phase 3 remaining at that point and my crew would be staying in the intact rooms anyway. Plus I was pretty sure I'd die first as I only had something like 33% hull left