MedicShy wrote:2a. You shoot the ship, "What are you doing?!" the Zoltan says, "Power up the Shields!" (Initiates Combat) (The ship is weak, it only has 5 Hull Points, it will immediately start powering it's FTL drive)
This should also count as a piracy action and with the consequences
2b. "They're good enough," About an hour passes and you finally get another answer, "Thank you for your assistance." They give you a moderate cache of Scrap and warp away. (REWARD: Moderate Scrap, Federation Fleet Doubled For 1 Jump) (Federation Doubled is because of time passage)
You mean Rebel Fleet. The Federation are who we're trying to save.
Also, I wouldn't mention "An hour passes" as an excuse for the Rebel Fleet's advancement. Time between jumps is vague. Some events say "Several hours pass and you get your reward" with no Rebel Fleet progress made. So "Some time passes and you finally receive an answer" would work better.
2d. "You idiot! Letting IT on our ship!" About 5 minutes pass and you are finally informed of the tragic event,"Your Rockman seemed to have a nice time visiting our airlock." your Rockman crew member is probably floating in space now, no hope to save him. (REWARD: Lose Rock Crew Member)
While hilarious, wut? Blue events should not screw you over like that.
Seriously though... imagine if you're the Captain(s) in this situation.
Captain: I'll send one of my crew over.
Zoltan: Ok fine.
*Crew comes over on shuttle*
Zoltan: That's a Rockman!
Rock: You got a problem? I'm a skilled engineer just like everyone else.
Zoltan: *thinking* He'll ruin everything!
Zoltan: Hey can you go fix that airlock over there.
Rock: Sure!
*Gets spaced*
Zoltan: ... and you see he was a Rockman. So we spaced him! You were idiots for sending him over.
Captain: *facepalming* How about I send over my Mantis? Via teleporter. Into your face. Moron.
It really doesn't make any sense that because you send a Rock over that they are immediately spaced and the Zoltan get away with it. Might I suggest something else, like:
Your Rockman is sent over and it turns out the stranded Zoltan were a crew of unlucky pirates. They wipe the ship clean of the vagrants and you collect the spoils (Standard reward from boarding action).
Sort of like that Slug event with the damaged oxygen except it's a Rock not a Mantis.
Event 2:
A pirate-controlled Federation ship hails you, "We demand the surrender of your goods, order of the Federation." The captain and his crew seem to be attempting trickery, you notice their Shields System is offline, and it seems you can get a clear shot on the ship.
There's already an event similar to this one where some pirate pretends to be Federation and you can attack them.
It sounds like one of those except you can use specific equipment to end the fight.