Mantis ship attacking Slug ship

This random event occurs in:

• Slug Controlled Nebula
• Slug Home Nebula
  at a distress beacon. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. This event can occur only once per sector.

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The distress call appears to be emanating from a Slug ship caught in open space by a Mantis raider. They contact you on emergency frequencies: "Please, we'll give you all we have if you sssave ussss!"

1. Attack the Mantis ship.
   • You lock onto the Mantis ship and engage.
     • Fight a Mantis Ship.
       • (After destroying enemy ship or After killing enemy crew) The Mantis defeated, you contact the weakened Slug vessel. "You ssseee," they begin, "we are are most grateful, but, that is, we do not currently have the liquid asssets to reward you at this time."
         • You receive medium scrap with resources.
           1. Leave them be.
              • These wretches aren't worth fighting. Time to spin up and jump off.
                • Nothing happens.
           2. Finish them off.
              • The Slug captain hails you: "A misstake! A sssimple misstake. Of course we can pay you! Ssseee? An augmentation has already transported." You allow them to leave with their lives.
                • You receive an augmentation with low scrap.
              • It doesn't look like they can stand much more damage. After a few shots their ship breaks apart and you move in to loot the remains.
                • You receive a random amount of scrap with resources.
2. Attack the Slug ship.
   • You move to finish what the Mantis have started.
     • Fight a Slug ship.
       • (After destroying enemy ship or After killing enemy crew) At last the Slugs' prized possessions are yours for the taking. After, that is, you split your takings with the Mantis.
         • You receive high scrap with resources.
3. Of all the species in the galaxy, these two deserve one another. You power up the jump drive.
   • Nothing happens.

Trivia

This event is called "SLUG_DISTRESS_MANTIS" in the datafiles.