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Refuelling ship (n)
. A ship that carries large amount of fuel and similar basic supplies, typically acting as a long-distance transport for such goods or to resupply the front lines of a military.
The Rebel scans we found earlier said that there was a ship planning to go here, and it turns out to be one of the Rebels' own; it arrives at the same time as us and starts attacking a civilian refuelling ship. Unfortunately for it, its power is mostly concentrated in its cloaking device, leaving it with inadequate defences when its cloak goes down, and its weapons really don't synergise with each other. When we intervene, it deploys a missile launcher to try to get through our shields, and even though we have our Defence Drone, it manages to sneak a missile through its blind spot; fortunately, it's a Leto, and although it completely disables our ship's sensors, those things hardly hurt our hull and our sensors really weren't important for this battle. the worst goes and fixes them, and Iconeum is able to bring any of our missiles to bear, but we don't need anything powerful to win this fight; the Burst Laser can take the shields down for the Pike Beam, which ends up doing most of the work. It does manage to shoot down our Defence Drone, because it's outside our shields, but the fight is almost over by then; its laser and beam can't get through our shields and its hull can't stand up to all the beam damage we're doing.
It has some ammo left over that we'll be able to adapt for use on our ship; we might be able to adapt some of it to build drones of our own; and although it's small, we still get ⛯26 worth of scrap from its remains.
The refuelling ship is mildly damaged, but at least its contents are intact; none of the fuel it was carrying was spilt. They're happy to be saved, and we quickly come to a deal; we repair their ship using our hull repair drones, and they trade us supplies as thanks for saving and repairing them. We get some fuel and ammo, and a gift of ⛯50.
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