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This random event occurs in:

at a distress beacon. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect Possible ship detected. ship presence. This event can occur only once per sector.



You are too late - whatever once was emitting the distress signal from this system drew a Lanius ship as well as your own. Having consumed the original target, the Lanius turn their attention to your vessel.

Notes[]

This event is called "LANIUS_DISTRESS_TRAP" in the datafiles.

Reference notes[]

  1. The enemy ship: 80% chance for escape attempt at 20-40% hull and/or 80% chance for surrender offer at 30-40% hull. (the enemy won't try to run away if the surrender was offered first; sometimes it is required to decrease the hull below the threshold or even down to 1 in order to trigger the surrender offer)