Faster Than Light Walkthrough Sector 5

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Sector 5

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There is only one beacon I can jump to so I go there.

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It's an automated ship which will warn the fleet if it can power up its FTL drive.

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I aim for the piloting system

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but my shields get hit so I try to repair them as quickly as possible.

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My door system is hit and on fire, I sent 3 into the shields to finish it quickly

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But they get hit again. Meanwhile I aimed for the piloting system, but my weapons get hit before I was able to shoot.

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My shields are still damaged and the fire in the door system is out of control, I had to send the guy in the medbay and I use the boarding crew to help out on the ship.

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Realizing I can't win this fight

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I escape, this can be useful because you sometimes encounter enemies which you are not able to beat.

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I pick the blue option

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and can avoid a fight.

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I now work on the ship to repair everything.

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After repairing the door system and healing everyone

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I jump to the store.

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I buy a scrap recovery arm and continue my journey.

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The next beacon reveals a fight.

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He will not be able to pierce my shields, but the anti-personnal drone will make the boarding process difficult. On top of that are the upgraded doors, meaning my boarding crew could get trapped inside.

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I attack the drone control first, but it seems like it can take a few hits without being fully disabled.

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I fire at the piloting system and the human inside takes a lot of damage, especially with the fire.

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The repair drone helps him, so I focus the doors next.

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Unfortunately, they are charging their FTL drive and I make the mistake

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of trying to board them nonetheless.

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I can call them back in time due to the teleporter lvl 2, but

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the ship gets away.

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And so I make my way to the next beacon.

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I hire them to delay the rebels so I can explore 2 more beacons. 14 scrap is a pretty low cost.

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What I did now is fighting them instead of venting them off completely to increase the fighting level of my crew members.

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I finish them off in the medbay

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and send them back again to their stations.

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The next beacon has an automated scout.

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I shoot at his weapons

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but I miss every shot.

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I hit them at the 2nd time and can disabled both of his weapons, meaning that the drone can't pierce through my shield.

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I keep on shooting at their weapons and then switch to the piloting system because it evades a lot of my shots.

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After having dealt with his weapons and piloting system, I go for the shields because getting through them is difficult.

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I defeat him after a while.

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The next beacon has another scout.

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It has no shields, but an Ion weapon and a Burst Laser III, meaning it will shoot 5 lasers at me.

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I am able to destroy its weapons in time before it can shoot me with the Burst Laser III.

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Keeping its weapons disabled should be easy, especially with no shields to break through.

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Next beacon. They offer me to sell my drone parts for scrap

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so I sell 3.

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I don't risk it because the last time I fought against an automated scout with 2 shields didn't work out so well.

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The next beacon has an asteroid field, but 2 shields are pretty decent against one.

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His weapons are very strong, 2 Burst Laser II and a beam weapon, meaning he shoots 6 lasers followed up by a beam.

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I autofire the piloting system with the Ion Stunner because it will disable one shield, it doesn't matter where I hit. I then attack the weapons with my Burst Laser II.

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I am able to damage its weapons, but I take a lot of damage on my weapons and piloting system.

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I get hit a second time, but it's only the medbay.

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I could've used my doors to remove the oxygen from the medbay, resulting in putting out the fire quickly, but I sent my crew in instead. This is a mistake on my part, but works too.

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After finally being able to disabling both of its lasers,

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I can destroy him without taking further damage.

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I jump to the next location and aid the civilian ship.

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The auto-scout has no shields, but a cloaking system, a missile launcher and a hull laser. The laser won't be a big of a deal, but the missiles will do a lot of damage.

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After disabling the missile launcher,

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I try to destroy the cloaking system.

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It cloaks in time and avoids my bullets.

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I shoot at the weapons again after the cloak was over to ensure that the missiles stay disabled.

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After the 3rd cloak I'm finally able to finish him off.

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I was a bit too slow and ended up fighting against an Elite Fighter of the rebels.

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They board my ship so I suffocate them. Meanwhile I focus on their weapons to minimize the damage I will take since he has a lot of weapons.

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They teleport their boarding crew back because it was low on health while I keep shooting at their weapons.

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I keep firing on their weapons, but my oxygen system got hit.

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My FTL drive is finally charged so I go to the next sector.

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