Independent Star Traders

[oldalchemist]

Space Hulks ought to also have the hulls of human ships that tried to board/rescue/destroy them assimilated into the hulk mass.

Encryption wouldn't really help. A signal of any sort in space would attract some attention.

Cory, it would be awesome if you could somehow make the Space Hulk art really dwarf the player ship. There really ought to be a sense that you're out of your league when you encounter them.

Also, there should be a chance that after a successful boarding mission against a Space Hulk, you might have accidentally brought something on board your ship...something that kills crew when you cross red sectors!

[slayernz]

Ooh ... yeah. Or something that converts your crew into crystals or mutant killers? You start losing x% of your crew each turn until you get to a Space Dock and click on the newly created "Sanitize Alien Infection" button.

[oldalchemist]

Sanitize? More like "Fresh Coat of Paint and Sell It To a Sucker."

Space Herpes? No, that's just the ship's cat.

[slayernz]

Anyway, there's nothing that a pile of overproof Vudka and a match can't clean out

[oldalchemist]

What do you mean there's an oozing pus bladder in the hold? It's not an alien egg sac! It's an exotic chemical extractor. See the bucket I've put under it? That stuff is liquid gold.

[slayernz]

I was promoting them as natural gel-filled pillows for the crew quarters. I even offered to make the crew doors only open from the corridor side so that the captain might survive get a better night sleep.

[oldalchemist]

"What do you mean 'your old ship never had a digester room?' This ship recycles everything."