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Yes, Alpha-chan, Beta-sempai and Gamma-kun whispered it to me

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No, Ludd told me it was better for me not to know in my sleep

2 (15.4%)

I don't care, just stop burning AI waifus at the stake you Pather monster!

1 (7.7%)

Total Members Voted: 13

Voting closed: July 15, 2021, 09:23:46 AM

[Arcagnello]

Warning! Story Spoilers ahead!

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I've finally gotten to the nascent gravity well contaning the Alpha site and the Ziggurat fight (which I'm extremely disappointed by the fact I can't salvage by the way, it ruins my technological troglodyte roleplay) and I took some time to fully explore the system from head to toe, since I've had a discussion with a good chap on Twitch during a Starsector stream about something special being hidden in it.
Turns out he was right, and I found it!

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There were some Remnants fighting it for some reason. How hilarious would it have been for us to fight a Tesseract here, without the option of retreating?
Come on Alex, I know it was on your mind, Just Do It^TM!

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I actually forgot to make a screenshot of them, but you'll find 3-4 Hyper-Redacted weapons inside the cache. I'm not sure if the exact position is the same every playthrough but it should not take more than a month of in-game time to find it in the system using sensor burst otherwise.

Post Scriptum
Here's my low tech only fight against the angry broccoly of death by the way. I'm updating a thread of mine soon and I may aswell partly write what I'm pasting in there aswell.

My Fleet setups specifically made to counter the Zig:
Tyrant (forgot to swap the MK9 Autocannon at the front and the Expanded Deck Crew for both Automated Repair Unit AND Resistant Flux Conduits)

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XIV Legion (fighter spam to distract the motes was actually really useful, but I should've swapped boradswords for Thunders)

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Pebble Battlecarrier (from the Asteroid Ships Pack https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=17871.0 , which I suggest you to get since it's great)

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Venom-X superfrigate (ship itself is from Underworld https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=11002.0 , that small ball shaped weapon is a Small Arc Emitter from High Tech Expansion https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=19548.0 )

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The Fight itself
Deployed capitals first, I made the mistake to not have the two Pebbles Escort the Legion

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First Contact

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I made the mistake of giving a Kill Order to all my Capitals, which resulted in the Legion going headfirst into the Zig and not let the two capital ships with a Paragon's shield and nearly 60k hull points each do their job and tank the hell out of it

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Aaaaand the Fat Pigeon's dead, some 5 seconds before the Zig itself got deleted. Great. I remember that overload text making me laugh so hard I had to pause the battle for a while.

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I thankfully saved up a Story Point, turned out to be really useful.

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Gave the Zig its lore accurate name before hauling it back to my home planet and never touching it ever again in this campaign

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[AcaMetis]

For the record,

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The cache does appear to be in the same place every time, it's not in an orbit around the planet. Also the weapons it yields is random, I'm not sure exactly when it's determined what the cache contains but I'm assuming at game start.

It's also the only source of those weapons you can get without fighting the hardest enemies in the game, so enjoy what few functional tools the game gives to give you in your quest to acquire a full set of completely redundant trophies.

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[Vanshilar]

Yes it's always in the same location (about 5.5 squares east and 5.5 squares north of the planet). The cache gives 1-2 medium weapons, and 3-4 small weapons, and you can usually just kill the defenders with your starting fleet. So it's a nice easter egg that I make a beeline for at the beginning of each playthrough.

[SCC]

You brought how many capital ships with you to fight Motes? I did it with a bunch of random ships I had at hand.

[Arcagnello]

For the record,

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The cache does appear to be in the same place every time, it's not in an orbit around the planet. Also the weapons it yields is random, I'm not sure exactly when it's determined what the cache contains but I'm assuming at game start.

It's also the only source of those weapons you can get without fighting the hardest enemies in the game, so enjoy what few functional tools the game gives to give you in your quest to acquire a full set of completely redundant trophies.

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Good to know, thanks mate!

Yes it's always in the same location (about 5.5 squares east and 5.5 squares north of the planet). The cache gives 1-2 medium weapons, and 3-4 small weapons, and you can usually just kill the defenders with your starting fleet. So it's a nice easter egg that I make a beeline for at the beginning of each playthrough.

Which is why I'd really like Alex to throw a curveball and have us fight a single Dorito for them. It would only be fair 

You brought how many capital ships with you to fight Motes? I did it with a bunch of random ships I had at hand.

I brought a single XIV Legion (40DP), Two Pebbles (80DP) and 6 Venom-Xs (60DP) to fight it at once since I'm playing with 180 max deployment size, AI control only AND in Iron mode. I could've probably beaten it with just the one Pebble and 6 Venom-Xs but I wanted to minimize losses. I more or less specced all 5 Capitals and 6 frigades in my fleet to fight Zig but I ended up only needing around half of my fleet size for it, if not less.

[Ad Astra]

I must admit, when I read Censored I expect some hot pictures of Radiant hull without armor plating (is it getting hot in here or is it just me?), so I'm rather disappointed at the current turn of events.

At least you  do get a weapon that shoots a stream of white stuff among the super redacted arsenal so I guess we can make do with that.

[WeiTuLo]

Salvage and store it somewhere as a trophy. And/or when you are tempted. For the dark side of technology is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.