Oolite Bulletins

I've been running with several Thargoid-related OXPs installed - Thargoid Wars, Extra Thargoids, Second Wave, Swarm, and Thargon Threat.

Last night I was fighting off an attack on a station when I noticed something odd was happening - someone else had apparently let off a Queridium weapon, a blue sphere was appearing (fortunately behind me and nearer the station). Needless to say I hit the fuel injectors fast and got out of there.

I'm not 100% sure what happened there, if it was one of the Thargoids or another human ship that dropped the bomb. Pretty sure it wasn't me since I've stopped using them. I've never seen this before in a LOT of play. Anyone got any ideas?

Do you have  Cargo Wreck Teaser installed? It can generate fuel pods, which can then explode as a Q-bomb.

ShipVersion also award  Quirium Cascade Mine to the top 1% of the ships.

And all this time I've been thinking it was only Random Hits that did that... looks like my Q-Bomb Detector might be more useful than I realised..

Things just got a little rougher out there.......

Yes, I've got cargo wrecks teaser and second wave. And it belatedly occurs to me that I have star jellys installed, so it's possible a jelly larva drifted through the combat zone.

Not a problem, I got away OK and I've only seen it once in six months or more of having all of them installed.

The Extra Thargoids OXP might be responsible too: when 'Gruntbugglies' are on their way out, they have a tendency (by design) to go blue, as it were. Also, non-thargoid NPCs can, even in the core game I think, use Q-mines. Or at least standard NPCs can, given an OXP containing quirium missiles, use such missiles.

That could explain something - the time I rammed a gruntbugglie and died instantly! Hadn't realised that was what killed me.

ffutures wrote:

That could explain something - the time I rammed a gruntbugglie and died instantly! Hadn't realised that was what killed me.

Well, the 'bugglies, when dying, always release explosive shrapnel and sometimes become quirium blasts. So it might just have been the shrapnel (and would have been if you didn't, in the closing credits, so to speak, see a blue cloud). Or perhaps you were just going too fast!

Explosive shrapnel sounds most likely, didn't see the blue sphere of death.