Rebel Stronghold Sector/How to unlock Osprey in Advanced Addition!

[Nagumo-Stan]

Caution! This entire discussion consists of spoilers of a sensitive nature! You have been warned!
Also, sorry for the somewhat long-winded article.

Im very pleased with the new FTL advanced addition, but the new Rebel Stronghold Sector is very cool. I got FTL on my ipad to see how it compared, and its exaclty the same as the original PC version, which is great. Anyway, I was doing a test run with the Kestrel and saw the new Rebel Stronghold. After fighting off a few powerful riggers I got to an event that said I was in some sort of shipyard. Then I was attacked by none other than the Rebel Flagship 2 (still under construction) It looks like the flagship stage 3, but fortunately without the super shield and super weapon. It has the same triple laser and missile launcher though. Fortunately, it had only 2 layers of shields, but I had only my default weaponry. I managed to defeat it after a tough fight that left most of my ship in flames. I was rewarded with 5 fuel, 5 drone parts, 54 scrap, and a triple ion charger, in addition the rebel fleet was delayed 2 jumps. Then I detected a Federation ship signal, sent by none other than the Osprey (the advanced federation cruiser) which was being reverse engineered by the rebels, no doubt for some nefarious purpose. So that is the new way to unlock the Osprey! Find the rebel stronglhold, beat the rebel flagship 2! I hope this is a help to anyone new to FTL or who can't beat that darn final boss (we've all been there).

[Cragspyder]

Thanks for the post. Naturally I had it unlocked from before, but since I am a completionist when it comes to FTL i will have to keep an eye out :)

[Nagumo-Stan]

thanks!

[RobDiazBel]

Thanks! I found the flag ship, but got destroyed by it u.u and as i deleted my profile, i need to get everything again XD

[Nagumo-Stan]

I found the fight a bit difficult, but that's probably because I was thinking "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! its the rebel flagship 2!" Best of luck!

[Tealtyr]

And here's another thing I need to go for, along with every achievement and ship layout.

[Kierannkkt (Heavy)]

i i ahve layout A of all ships exept slug, mantis and federation, and layout B of engi cruiser, but i still ahve never killed the flagship, and never even seen a rebel stronghold

[pi73r]

cool story bro
dat necro

[gambit]

Necroing.
Wasn't aware this is available at sector 5.
Remember it being 6 and 7.

[Skinny Pete]

Literally a minute ago, I just got my ass handed to me by this thing, which appeared in this game in the dreaded Sector 5. I was woefully unprepared, and suspected I was. But I had been shy on scrap and weapons and decided to give it a shot. Worst case, I got obliterated and got a look at that special event ship for info to use next time.

Best case, it would probably shower me with scrap and weapons and such and maybe give me a shot at finishing.

This was on Hard, so the weapons rooms were accessible to the rest of the ship. (And Stealth C for anyone who cares. . .trying to win on Hard with that POS.)

[Dr. McWeazel]

Actually, the Weapons rooms on the "Under Construction" Flagship are connected anyway, so even if you'd been playing on Easy or Normal you would've still had to contend with that much.

[Skinny Pete]

I'd never seen it before. Rather, I'd seen the encounter before, but it always seemed like an unnecessary risk at the time.

[gambit]

I couldn't find mine. Yes I know it's on clear beacon. At least I won game.
Also Pete always risk fighting it, reward is worth it.

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by gambit:

I couldn't find mine. Yes I know it's on clear beacon. At least I won game.
Also Pete always risk fighting it, reward is worth it.

For the potential benefit to matter, there has to be a chance of victory. I was basically crippled with practically no weapons. (I should have gone for it the previous times though.)

[gambit]

I've yet to lose to it :D

It's really weak, with 5+5+5 resources and guaranted weapon. You must have had really really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ setup :(

[gambit]

Also won in my 3rd try with Simo.

In 2nd sector went to first shop, no shields. Destroyed autoscout and got map info.
Other shop was right at exit.
Bought shields and pre-igniter there. Had to sold Shields+ for it :(
Was almost walk in the park from there, if my weapons weren't unbalanced.
Still, I'll take a win.

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