Mantis ship attacking Slug ship

 This random event occurs in:

• Slug Controlled Nebula
• Slug Home Nebula
  at a distress beacon.

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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.
     1. After defeating the Mantis ship.
        • 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 assets to reward you at this time."
          1. Leave them be.
             • (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.
               • Receive scrap and random augmentation.
             • 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.
               • Receive loot from Slug ship as well as the previously destroyed Mantis ship.
2. Attack the Slug ship.
   • You move to finish what the Mantis have started.
     1. Defeat the Slug ship.
        • The Mantis are so grateful that they only take 75% of the loot. How civilized.
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.