This story brings back memories. (Warning: Spoilers for Dramune's Run ahead!)

It happened sometime after we'd managed to put together a large group of gamers. (I think we had about four Yazarians, five Dralasites, six Humans, and two Vrusk.) At the time, we had decided to embark on Dramune's Run... and here's where the fun began.

The first encounter you could have was with a size 9 freighter, the Nightshade. Fairly straightforward stuff. That's when things got interesting. Instead of being captured, we knocked their drives out and boarded them, eventually taking the ship. Our main medic revived their pilot, and we diverted half our crew onboard to keep an eye on him. This allowed us to bypass the next three encounters, as it looked as though we'd already been captured!

Eventually we arrived at the space station. We docked the Gullwind, but left the Nightshade outside. (This was absolutely nowhere to be found in the rulebook... and this was just the beginning!) Since we had eyes on the outside, we knew that there was a large army of robots outside the ship... and that's when our two demolition experts decided to use the munitions inside the Gullwind, as well as the robot inside, to create and deliver a nuclear bomb explosion into the midst of the large droid army.

It worked perfectly.

In the initial blast, 28 of the robots were taken down immediately. Four more were lost due to subsequent burning. That's when things got really hectic. The Nightshade had been recognized by the five separate Malthar ships sitting in orbit around the station, so we crashlanded it into the bay, taking out four more bots. Vince, who had been on the Nightshade, immediately ran over to the Gullwind, as the battle raged on.

After we'd destroyed the first wave of bots, the next wave of 40 charged our positions. At this point, it would be good to note that the five Malthar ships mentioned earlier were sitting just outside the hangar, watching the battle rage down below. Vince ran out of the Gullwind with a spacesuit on and a rocketpack strapped to his back. Thankfully, he knew what he was doing. We'd already had half of our crew get tangled or gassed by the time he managed to take off, so he knew he'd have to act quick.

There were two frigates, two corvettes, and an assault scout.

Vince rocketed out into space without getting noticed, then immediately set a course for one frigate. He wired the engines of that frigate to explode using a panel on the outside, quickly rocketing over to the second frigate when he was done. He then accessed a control panel near one of the hatches, quickly hacking into the security system to open all doors on the spaceship. This sucked all the occupants out into space. As soon as he'd done that, gotten inside, and closed the hatches, the first frigate exploded, taking one of the corvettes with it and severely damaging the other three ships. The second corvette quickly fled the scene, leaving just the assault scout. Vince was preparing to fire on it when it targeted his friends on the deck, sending him a message that he should surrender or lose his compatriots, all of whom had been captured at that point. Reluctantly, he surrendered, sparking the next part of the mission.

(Footnote: later on in the mission, when attempting to sneak back onto the Gullwind, our resident psycho, Indie, noticed that they hadn't stolen all her knives, as they'd missed the one in her boot. This prompted her to float undetected to the sleepy guard and cut his throat in 0G, making it the most interesting kill I've ever witnessed.)