Which Xenon Ships Am I Able To Capture?

[Silver Heart TTV]

Apologies for asking. I'm playing the Beta and I wondered if anybody had the full list of which of the Xenon ships are captureable?

I also heard mention of terraformer ships and the concept confuses me.

[hurepoix]

Destroyer H (large) corvette PA (Medium) Heavy fighter Xenon F (small). Probably xenon B a small corvette.

Destroyer H is a former terraformer converted for military usage. It exist however an XL terraformer. It is (was ?) in the game from the start but unexploited. It Could be capturable, I dont know, and to be honnest I m not interrested in, since she is too slow clumsy and massive.

[Silver Heart TTV]

I've got a PE sitting right in front of me. It had one crew which left the ship. So now I have a PE just sitting here, hostile to me, not attacking, unable to be boarded and no data leak for me to capture it?

[Takichi]

This is just a very briefly summarisation, which may not be complete or anything.... But basicly the Terraformer Ships are the Xenon or Rather the FIRST of the Xenon. They were Automatised AI Ships send out into the Galaxy to Terraform Planets for Humanity, but they malefunctioned and startet Terrarforming everything regardless of Live in/on/or depending on the Celestial Body they Terraform. They also basicly just Terraformed everything in a way, that it would Produce more Terraformer AI and Ships, therefore "making" themself to the Xenon as we know them today.

[Silver Heart TTV]

I know the lore but thank you for the recap, nonetheless. I was more so confused about what I thought might be those terraformer original ships around the map. So it seems like the 'being able to fly Xenon' ships isn't true yet. Just got a F to bail and, yeah, no way to capture it. I doubt the PA works either so I'm guessing only the H can be hijacked with a trick but I'm not going to bother with that.

Really wanted to build up a little Xenon personal fleet but I guess I'll have to check in again after they make a patch for it.

[hurepoix]

Basically, it makes no sense xenon s ships can be captured. The xenon is the ship itself. It have no crew.
What I can say is H,PE, F and B have been designed to be pilotable and capturable. However it seems, some problems need to be fixed for it become effective.

[powergfx]

Originally posted by hurepoix:

Basically, it makes no sense xenon s ships can be captured. The xenon is the ship itself. It have no crew.
What I can say is H,PE, F and B have been designed to be pilotable and capturable. However it seems, some problems need to be fixed for it become effective.

Actually .. in the former X games it was a running gag that Xenon bailed by ejecting the board/AI computer.

[Phoenixsui]

So how do you get the H if you cant capture it as it has no crew? Just shoot until its abandoned with luck or do we need to send the marines? Not sure. I found several PE SE and F and a B so far abandoned where my fleet was guerding a gate to xenon sector.

[Walker Evans]

H is captured by boarding, same as any other capital ship.
B, F, PE, and SE can be forced to bail then claimed but there's a bug in beta 2 that can sometimes have them retain their pilot after they turn ownerless.

[hurepoix]

Originally posted by Walker Evans:

bug in beta 2 that can sometimes have them retain their pilot after they turn ownerless.

But which pilot ?