This random event occurs in:
- Civilian Sector
- Pirate Controlled Sector
- Rebel Controlled Sector
- Rebel Stronghold
- Slug Controlled Nebula
- Slug Home Nebula
- Uncharted Nebula
in a nebula. Can also occur as a nebula filler event in any sector. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. This event can occur only once per sector.
A heavily damaged Federation ship is hiding in the nebula at this beacon. Before you have time to make contact with them, they fade into the nebula.
- Attempt to follow and help them.
- You get lucky and find them floating not too deep into the nebula. Thrilled to be found by friendlies, they come on board and abandon their wrecked ship.
- You receive a crewmember.
- While searching fruitlessly through the nebula, you stumble upon the rebel ship which the Federation loyalists were likely hiding from. You prepare for a fight.
- Fight the Rebel ship (default rewards).
- Your search is hopeless. Your sensors can't pick up anything in the nebula.
- Nothing happens.
- You get lucky and find them floating not too deep into the nebula. Thrilled to be found by friendlies, they come on board and abandon their wrecked ship.
- Keep your position, they can handle themselves.
- Nothing happens.
- (Teleporter) Lock onto their life-signs with your teleporter.
- You beam the Federation crew aboard. One gladly joins your crew, the rest wait to be dropped off at the next station.
- You receive a crewmember and medium scrap.
- You beam the Federation crew aboard. One gladly joins your crew, the rest wait to be dropped off at the next station.
- (Long-ranged Scanner) Pump extra power into your sensors and try to track them.
- You follow the faint signatures and find them floating not too far away into the nebula. Thrilled to be found by friendlies, they come on board and abandon their wrecked ship.
- You receive a crewmember.
- Your local radar flickers, periodically showing signs of a large object in the clouds nearby. However it's enough to get coordinates and you find the ship... an empty hull, long since stripped of functioning components.
- You receive medium scrap.
- You follow the faint signatures and find them floating not too far away into the nebula. Thrilled to be found by friendlies, they come on board and abandon their wrecked ship.
Trivia[]
This event is called "NEBULA_LOST_SHIP" in the datafiles.