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.
Note: this event occurs at a regular beacon, but when you arrive there will be a nebula environment.
You arrive near the distress beacon's signal.
- You track the distress beacon with difficulty to one of the five moons of a planet hidden in the nebula.
- Investigate.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Five.
- Six.
- Seven.
- Eleven.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Investigate.
- You track the distress beacon with difficulty to one of the six moons of a planet hidden in the nebula.
- Investigate.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Five.
- Six.
- Seven.
- Eleven.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Investigate.
- You track the distress beacon with difficulty to one of the seven moons of a planet hidden in the nebula.
- Investigate.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Five.
- Six.
- Seven.
- Eleven.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Investigate.
- You track the distress beacon with difficulty to one of the eleven moons of a planet hidden in the nebula.
- Investigate.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Five.
- Six.
- Seven.
- Eleven.
- As you drift closer, you are contacted by a Slug marooned on the moon's surface. "I shall join your crew, sssay I, if you can answer me this simple quesssstion. How many moons are there in orbit here?"
- Investigate.
Incorrect Answer[]
"That issss... incorrect." Further, I have taken advantage of your lack of acuity to beam aboard your ship and steal your stuff!
Correct Answer[]
"That isss... correct. You sssurprise me. Human, is it? Yesss... we can be partners." The Slug beams aboard and joins your crew!
- You receive a Slug crewmember.
Trivia[]
This event is called "SLUG_DISTRESS_QUESTION" in the datafiles.
- Prior to the Advanced Edition update, it was possible to know the correct answer by looking at the grammar of the event. (No more comma differences between the text of the marooned slug (sorry /u/Twinge))