Mantis unlock question!

[mgdbock]

Hi! I've been grinding in order to unlock all the ships and was wondering about 1 thing: Can i get the mantis ship withouht a teleporter? I mean, if i used the slug cruiser and had an upgraded medbay and disentrgtated everyone on his ship, could I magic him onto my ship and unlock the cruiser? Or am i missing something?

[Nebhead]

You mean the Mantis Cruiser? Yep, you can indeed unlock it without having a Crew Teleporter.

As long as you can kill the Crew on board (deplete Shields and use Anti Bio Beam, Hack and Destroy O2 etc) you can discover the dying Kazaak as long as you've got L3 Sensors AND either the L2 Medbay or L2 Clonebay.

An option then comes up after you've killed the crew to scan their ship for survivors, which leads to you discovering Kazaak. All you need then is the upgraded Medbay (or Clonebay) to save Kazaak from death. In this example, you use a shuttle on your ship to take your crew there and transport Kazaak back to your ship.

[Lathliss]

Of course, it is possible to unlock the Mantis Cruiser by beating the game with the Zoltan Cruiser. While it's difficult, this method doesn't require teleporters, bio beam, or the event itself, all of which are random and somewhat time consuming to obtain.