FTL event safety guide

Events can kill crew, damage hull, or advance the Rebel fleet. The wiki has a useful negative consequences super-category page.

To reduce tedious wiki checks, here’s a categorised guide. I’ve picked memorable phrases from each event. Sometimes the phrase is from your choice text.

Simple crew death events

These are simple binary choices. Is it safe to board that space station or not?

Whenever you send your crew, expect to lose them. So “boarding” is risky, but “examining” or “hailing them” is safe. Clone bays cannot cure disease, but upgraded medbays can. There’s an evil teleporter blue option that does not save your crew.

* Ignores “nothing” outcomes, as they are irrelevant for evaluating risk vs. reward

Other crew death events

These events have more options, stages, or nuances. I’m leaving out obvious choices like “give up your crew member”.

* Ignores “nothing” outcomes, as they are irrelevant for evaluating risk vs. reward

** Taking the Engi is “safe” because they replace any lost crew (but you might lose skills). “Save yourselves” is 100% safe

*** The Rebel Defector event is bugged: if you get a second offer, a crew icon indicates safety

Hull damage events

Hull damage is usually worth risking, unless you are low on hull. Even low-scrap outcomes become attractive in later sectors.

The following events were already covered in the “crew death” sections, but they also deal hull damage. Here they are again:

* Ignores “nothing” outcomes, as they are irrelevant for evaluating risk vs. reward

*** The Rebel Defector event is bugged: if you get a second offer, a crew icon indicates safety

Fleet advance events

Some events can advance the Rebel fleet by 1 move.

And once again, here’s our old friend:

Text cue Chance* Assessment Accept his proposal 1/6 Messy. I don’t take this …reluctantly accept his proposal 1/6 *** …same, but bugged

* Ignores “nothing” outcomes, as they are irrelevant for evaluating risk vs. reward

** For these events I’m including the “nothing” outcome, since there is no “do nothing” option

*** The Rebel Defector event is bugged: if you get a second offer, a crew icon indicates safety

Other penalties

The following events were already covered in earlier sections: