First time I'd ever seen an object called a treasuroid, but it sounded promising. I have an ore refiner so I pulled up alongside the treasuroid, very close to try breaking it up with the mining laser I have on the starboard side. But instead of breaking up into boulders or splinters, it broke up into about 5 ships. I think they were kraits. This happened in the middle of several hours of play, so my recall is a bit fuzzy..
They were just sort of milling around in a tight knot, didn't immediately go hostile. But I was *very* close in and one of them banged into my hull and then of course they all went hostile. It was a nice little scuffle, though nothing epic. Mostly it was just an interesting and unexpected sort of encounter, and in a few months of playing, I'd never seen a treasuroid before. Is there a logic to it being full of ships, like a pirate base or something? Ships docked in some sort of mine?
Another oddity I ran into was one of the big cargo haulers (a super, I think) was putting out a mayday. I responded but got there just in time to see it blow. Most of the cargo was too big for me to scoop. Like there was one entire ship floating in the mess, for example. I didn't get to look the flotsam and jetsam over for long, since the ships that had taken her out were incoming and apparently had issues with me being too close to their booty. By the time I was done with them, injector fuel was running low and I was out of missiles. Cobra MK IIIs can't carry that much cargo anyway (I was kind of wishing for my old Boa Cruiser at that moment), so I just scooped what little of the cargo was small enough that I could get it and headed off for safer space, wondering what was up with all that.
Another good moment was a bit later when I was out with a couple hired escort vipers and we ran into.. Well, it was at least 20 ships, I'd say, one of them a battleship?? Most of the ones I ended up tangling with personally were offenders, one or two were fugitives. A full-fledged pirate fleet??? Now that was unexpected. That was a good long fight. By the time I finally got down to just me and the battleship, both of my hired wingmen had bought the farm, but the battleship itself wasn't all that tough a customer. Plenty of cargo to scoop, but none of it unusual enough to give a hint as to what the heck a fleet was doing out there. Now *that* was "epic"! Just tooling along out towards the witchpoint with a hired escort, figuring on doing some easy sweeps and you see a couple ships that go red almost immediately.. and then you see a whole slew of ships right behind them on your scanner, pretty much a solid wall, all going hostile. I wish I could have seen the look on my face. Probably:
What I'm wondering is if any of these things were part of some mission and I just stumbled across them before triggering the mission, or maybe they're just comparatively rare and I hadn't run across them before. With the "pirate fleet", I hadn't hired escorts before, so maybe having hired wingmen results in a greater chance of finding really big furballs to go and get tangled up in?
In any case, they made great game elements, and sure kept it from being a boring night in space.
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mine only had one ship in it and it was dispached quickly, but no treasure was found! oh well
