What To Do With Space Whales?

[bookwarrior]

Hello, folks. New player here with a question.

In my current game playing an independent human power, I've run into groups of "space whales" moving about the hyperlanes. If I attack them, sure as the sun rises they'll attack me.

Also I don't know if there is any technology that can contact them and ask what they want.

Plus if they're attacked and slain, one can't harvest them like the wailing ships of old harvested the sea whales they hunted.

So my question to those who know better than I is....what can be done about them? Are they only targets for attack fleets like the ancient mining drones or the space dragon Shard? Or can they be talked to and reasoned with for future rewards?

Any help is appreciated and thank you all in advance.

[Taran]

I wouldn't attack them early in the game as the whole species will turn hostile and they can be quite annoying for your science ships. They can't be reasoned with and will never attack you first. Later on in the game you could destroy them as you'll gain the "Regenerative Hull Tissue" research which is really useful in the mid to late game in my opinion as it basically repairs your fleets for free.

[Danny]

I just ignore them completely, they are of no concern of mine.
The regenerative hull tissue tech they drop can be gotten from killing Marauder ships, which you wanna kill anyway before a Great Khan shows up.

[stevasaur]

The space whales are largely irrelevant. Studying them gives you access to the Regenerative Hull Tissue tech, so you theoretically could kill them to get more progress via debris. But by and large, the only reason to kill them is out of malice.

[Fartikus]

maybe someone could make a mod where they could be tamed or bred. Make them into budget anti-pirate herds with a "sheepdog" corvette or something. Ha.

[Teralitha]

Originally posted by Taran:

I wouldn't attack them early in the game as the whole species will turn hostile and they can be quite annoying for your science ships. They can't be reasoned with and will never attack you first. Later on in the game you could destroy them as you'll gain the "Regenerative Hull Tissue" research which is really useful in the mid to late game in my opinion as it basically repairs your fleets for free.

You are thinking of "space ameobas", not whales. Whales are different. Its space ameobas that give you the hull regen tech and they are always hostile.

As for the whales, I think if you attack and kill some, something happens but I dont recall.

[Taran]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Originally posted by Taran:

I wouldn't attack them early in the game as the whole species will turn hostile and they can be quite annoying for your science ships. They can't be reasoned with and will never attack you first. Later on in the game you could destroy them as you'll gain the "Regenerative Hull Tissue" research which is really useful in the mid to late game in my opinion as it basically repairs your fleets for free.

You are thinking of "space ameobas", not whales. Whales are different. Its space ameobas that give you the hull regen tech and they are always hostile.

As for the whales, I think if you attack and kill some, something happens but I dont recall.

Whales give you regenerative Hull Tissue too but as a salvage when killling them, you get amoeba flagella from the space amoebas. I know that amoeba are always hostile which is why I said that Whales can turn hostile when attacked. I know what I'm talking about dude

[Teralitha]

You get the hull tissue and the flagella from ameobas. Ill have to check and see if whales give the hull regen cuz I dont remember. But they are 2 different creatures types so I think you may be wrong.

[Taran]

Ok but like I know that there are Whales and that there are Amoebas. I know they're not the same thing. One of them (amoeba) is hostile and gives you the tech to research hull tissue and gets you the flagella when killed and the other one (whales) is neutral until attacked, gives you frequency-tuning and drops progress of hull tissue when salvaged

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Fartikus:

maybe someone could make a mod where they could be tamed or bred. Make them into budget anti-pirate herds with a "sheepdog" corvette or something. Ha.

I actually got one Tamed Prethorony-whatever from an excavation-related event in one of my latest playtrough. So yes, you can tame em (Prethorony-whetever is basically just evil version of the normal whales)

Im more concerned about where did space amoeba go? Haven't seen them since last patch

[Delta]

Originally posted by CaptainTenno a.k.a RomanCatapult:

Originally posted by Fartikus:

maybe someone could make a mod where they could be tamed or bred. Make them into budget anti-pirate herds with a "sheepdog" corvette or something. Ha.

I actually got one Tamed Prethorony-whatever from an excavation-related event in one of my latest playtrough. So yes, you can tame em (Prethorony-whetever is basically just evil version of the normal whales)

Im more concerned about where did space amoeba go? Haven't seen them since last patch

one is hidden on a planet and starts to stalk science vessels when they swoop by. (when you have distant stars DLC activated) And you sometimes find those evil amoeba that atack you.

[Wokelander]

They don't do much.
Would be cool if you could attach a science ship to them to gain research

[bookwarrior]

Originally posted by Fartikus:

Maybe someone could make a mod where they could be tamed or bred. Make them into budget anti-pirate herds with a "sheepdog" corvette or something. Ha.

I'd go for such a mod. Or at least one where something good can be got by harvesting one or many.

[ppaladin123]

The matriarch of the whales is a "leviathan" that you'll want to kill if you can though. Usually guards a very large Gaia world too.