Escape pod

 This random event occurs in:

• Mantis Controlled Sector
• Mantis Homeworlds
  

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You detect and retrieve an escape pod floating nearby. You consider returning it to space when you learn it's Mantis.

1. Jettison the pod.
   • You send the pod back out the airlock. You're not stupid.
     • Nothing happens.
2. Pry it open.
   • The Mantis inside is FURIOUS. He cuts the closest person in half with a single swipe. Kill it before anyone else is hurt.
     • You lose 1 crew member and are attacked by 1 Mantis boarder.
       • (Clone Bay) The Mantis is shocked to see the crewmember it just slaughtered step out of the Clone Bay.
   • The Mantis inside considers you a messenger from the god of mercy and demands to join your crew.
     • You receive 1 Mantis crew member.
   • A man bursts out of the life-pod screaming and claws his way into a corner. A rare survivor of Mantis captivity. Once calm, the survivor offers to join your crew for a time.
     • You receive 1 Human crew member.

Trivia

This event is called "MANTIS_CREW" in the datafiles.