Attacked by aliens!

[Meatshield]

Help!

We've been attacked by aliens. We have an evolving alien core on our ship. What do we do?

[Hydromel90]

select a crew member and shot the alien core.

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Originally posted by Hydromel90:

select a crew member and shot the alien core.

Addendum: Make sure they wear a space suit while doing so unless you like spores.

[Nebelbiber]

Space suits don't help, but distance does. Draft a crew member and shoot the alien core from a distance if possible, and make sure there are no other crew members near the core.

[Meatshield]

I tried putting on space suits and venting the room. I shot up the alien core, but two of my people got spores, so I guess the only protection is distance.

[Eisboe]

After being destroyed there is a small timewindow until the spore erruption, send you people the other way.

As an alternative: make an alienbiome that is sectioned off from the rest of the ship. Now you can periodically farm crawlers and haulers for your composter.

[Hydromel90]

Originally posted by n3p0:

After being destroyed there is a small timewindow until the spore erruption, send you people the other way.

As an alternative: make an alienbiome that is sectioned off from the rest of the ship. Now you can periodically farm crawlers and haulers for your composter.

It will probably absorb oxygen and power from the rest of the ship.

[Eisboe]

Yeah but you can cut off oxygen if you are fast enough. Power might be a problem I only had once spawn 2-3 eggs before I killed it off so I am not sure.
I saw a civillian station get infested and the door to the room got damaged. The bugs could not get out and no one could get in (not sure why they did not repair it). The base ran just fine.

[CircuitOverlord]

These new alien infestations are great!

I didn't notice one for awhile and then had a 3rd of one of my ships filled with haulers and crawlers... Soo cool, really makes the world feel alive. Like, oh, THATS how all these derelicts with aliens happened.