we had run out of fuel it was only a matter of time before the rebels found us at least we were in a nebula. Wait a scout gaaaa we cant do anything to those things. I had just recently became pilot of the Carnelian the crew consisted of 1 engi who worked the engines, 2 humans one who worked the shields, and me who flew the thing, 3 strange crystals who worked as borders along with a mantis. I never trusted mantises but this encounter made me realize that some are good. the only idea we had was to send the crystals on to weaken it. after that was done we lowered our shields and cut our engines the ship rocked from the blasts.
"no good" I said "we are down to 50% hull we need to put our shields back up"
As we begin to realize what a predicament we are in no fuel to jump away, no weapons to fire,ship at half hull we knew we would have to make a sacrifice. The engi and us humans were out of the question there was no way we could destroy the ship before we suffocated then the mantis speaks up
"I will go I would have died if you had not saved me it is the least I could do "
In the last sector we had responded to a distress signal it was out of the way and the rebels were closing in fast we made a decision as a crew to go cheek it out. His ship was stranded in an asteroid field we offered to beam him on the ship after witch he decided to join the crew.I never trusted him mantises had killed my family and left me stranded on the planet. I always felt he would stab us in the back and take the ship for himself.
Now I realize I was wrong as he beams up he tells us "farewell"
we keep in contact with him for the entire time then silence we fear the worst but then hear "take out those rebels for me" then we see the scout brilliantly explode we would not let his sacrifice go in vain
Aftermath (btw this is me speaking as the player now)
after that had happened I had to wait a few turns for help to come fortunately I got some help right as the rebels were about to reach me.To add insult to injury the next 3 battles I had were with scouts! I did get lucky in the next sector (rock homeworld found the ancient device on my third jump) and got a crystal burst mark 1 and 2 heavy crystal mark 1.after that I got to the final sector and beat the boss thanks to those weps and a 4 crystal boarding crew (also marked my second victory on normal). So as it turned out that one mantis's sacrifice saved the federation
This is also my first story so any constructive criticism is welcome