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Frax ships are powerful and well-balanced, and all possess heavy drones. Due to the advanced computers
aboard, the initial crew levels of Frax ships bought by player-controlled Corporations will be 5 instead of the default of 3
(the ships are still manned by living beings from your Corp - the computer equipment just helps these crews perform
better).
Frax love oblique battle passes when attacking due to the unusual arcs of their weapons, and when on the
defense, they attempt to hold range using station Keeping. Frax tactics to avoid include complicated echelon formations
and motionless sit & spin defenses.
You cannot normally buy Frax ships, which is why they have a year of availability of “N/A" in the Ship List. It may
be that during the game you'll be allowed to buy some of their ships, and if this occurs, you'd be well advised to purchase
some. However, you will never be able to set the Frax as a primary.
5.21 The Nasty Space Monsters (M)
Throughout the Greater Magellanic Cloud will be found "monsters" which will menace your ships and sites. These
creatures are considered to be part of a Corporation called the Nasty Space Monsters (998). However, this Corp does
not have a Home Office, and cannot win the game. They are present only as a nuisance factor.
You'll find that you have one space monster in your home sector, and in fact, all sectors have one. Dealing with it
should be one of your goals. This can be difficult since the creature will move around, but you'll soon discover how to
predict its movements and intercept it. When you do, you'll receive a bounty for killing the monster, a bounty provided by
the Galactic Council.
The bounty for killing a monster is based on its original combat strength-damage it has suffered does not enter into the
calculation. Note also that you can only gain the bounty for killing a monster if you attacked it. If the monster attacks you
and dies in the attempt, you do not score the bounty for its stupidity.
The Monsters have the ability to divide, replicate and/or reproduce later on in the game. The smaller versions are
referred to as progeny. If you don't take out your monster, it will eventually split and then you'll have two of them to deal
with. Note that the more powerful monsters (the ones in the wild sectors) have weaker progeny than themselves, a critical
point since these powerful monsters can be extremely vicious. If a monster duplicates, the new creature will be of a
smaller type than the original, if possible (see the Monster List below). Monsters must be at least age 4 to attempt to
replicate (although there is only a 10% chance of their doing so) and if one does reproduce, its age is reduced to zero.
This forces it to wait a little while before replicating again.
Computerized monsters (and other computerized Corporations, for that matter) will never move out of the sector
they are in; to them, sector boundaries are impassable. This is fortunate, since the monsters in home sectors tend to be
weak while those in wild sectors are extremely tough to defeat. You wouldn't want an Emperor Void Demon or Star
Crusher invading your home sector!
It is theoretically possible that at some point during play you might wind up with a monster working for your
Corporation. When this happens, the game computer will list the monster as though it were one of your ships, and will
assign it an attack factor, defense factor and "shield" factor. In other words, you can consider a monster as just another
type of ship. Monsters are immune to many terrains (all those which drain crew, plus dust, asteroids, meteor swarms,
stasis zones, ion storms, black holes, gravity wells, white dwarfs, weak space, nebulae, and toll zones), and they usually
have more staying power than other ships. Still, you cannot do any of the following to a monster: refit or upgrade it in any
way, assign it any optional items, or assign a legendary officer or Prime Team to it. You can train it, however, and use it for
other duties such as prospecting. Additional details on the care and feeding of space monsters will be provided when you
acquire one.
Some monsters have special abilities which they will use against you during the game. Many of these are lost if
they join your Corporation. The types of monsters in the game, an approximation of their basic cost, a description of each,
and the special abilities they use are shown on the table which follows.
Note: Not all of these monsters appear in Star Fleet Battles, but all appeared in the tri-video show on which SFW is
based.
The list of the types of monsters their abilities in in Appendix J.
5.22 Wild Sector Pirates
Several computerized Corporations which live and operate in the wild sectors of the galaxy have already been
mentioned previously. It's now time to learn a bit more about how these function.
Within each wild sector (never in a home sector), you will find one "pirate base." This will be one of the major sites
in the sector and is "home" to a band of, for lack of a better term, wild sector pirates. These pirates will be of one of
these four Corporations: Orion Scum (997), Andromedan Invaders (996), Frax Experiment (995) or Seltorian Tribunal
(994). Whichever of these owns the pirate base in a given wild sector will use that base to build ships for their Corporation
(they do not use a Warp Gate for this purpose). Their ships will then move about to harass your ships, menace your sites
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