It began as a typical run and I was in pretty good shape by -8. Found storage early on and went in hoping for some drones or regenerative armor. Instead I quickly found the entrance to Recycling. Never been in there before, so I decided to pop in. It seemed like the caches were better than storage maybe, but a lot of the items were partly damaged. The little drones sending out warning signals also freaked me out - i assume they raise the security level on the next level?. Not sure I'll go back into recycling in future runs, but I have the feeling there's some secrets there that I have yet to uncover.



The seeds of my demise were planted on -7. I instantly fell into a chute trap and got the derelict army event. I go back to -7 and hit an ambush trap. Instead of hostiles, I get the... derelict squad event. I now have a large army and can see where this is headed. I'm pretty well equipped and my entourage is one shotting all hostiles. Predictably, the security level spikes to about 4. After two programmer dispatches and the second ARC, my friends are dead but the AI is still extremely pissed. I get to -4 naked and then get splatted. I was briefly at security level 5, which I think I've never reached before during serious play. Frickin' allies. I'm going to seriously consider telling all my chute allies to just explore next time I get them.