This random event occurs in:
at a distress beacon. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect 
no ship presence. This event can occur multiple times per sector.
You have encountered a refugee ship drifting in space. It looks as if it was fleeing the Rebel advance and ran out of fuel. Its distress beacon is active, but you're not sure anyone is on board, and its communications seem to be down.
- Prepare to board and investigate.
- As you investigate the ship, you are attacked by the now-cannibalistic crew! Driven mad by lack of food, they have turned to feeding on each other. As you fight your way off the ship, one of your crew falls to the crazed attackers, and you are forced to leave them behind or else lose your entire ship.
- You lose a crewmember.
- (Clone Bay) Your abandoned crewmember is waiting on the ship when you return, trying not to dwell on the fate of his previous incarnation.
- The lost crewmember is revived.
- (Clone Bay) Your abandoned crewmember is waiting on the ship when you return, trying not to dwell on the fate of his previous incarnation.
- You lose a crewmember.
- It looks as if the ship ran out of fuel, and the crew ran out of food not long after. Despite the grisly scene that remains, you find one surviving crewman locked in the freezer, almost perfectly preserved and apparently overlooked by the starving crew.
- You receive a crewmember.
- The ship is completely abandoned. It looks like it ran out of fuel... and the crew ran out of food not long after. Despite the grisly scene that remains, you are able to scavenge some supplies from the cargo hold.
- You receive medium missiles and scrap.
- As you approach the ship, the other ship's transporters suddenly power up, and your decks swarm with now-cannibalistic refugees! Driven mad by lack of food, they have turned to feeding on each other - and now your crew is next!
- 2-4 human boarders beam aboard your ship.
- The ship is completely abandoned. There is no trace of the crew or any cargo. Mystified, you leave the ghost ship and continue on.
- Nothing happens.
- As you investigate the ship, you are attacked by the now-cannibalistic crew! Driven mad by lack of food, they have turned to feeding on each other. As you fight your way off the ship, one of your crew falls to the crazed attackers, and you are forced to leave them behind or else lose your entire ship.
- Ignore the ship.
- Nothing happens.
Trivia[]
This event is called "REFUGEE_GHOST" in the datafiles.