bad day event

[arctvrvs]

Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kilotomb bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's First Law?

First Recruit: Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir!

Gunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!

First Recruit: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!

Gunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

Second Recruit: Sir, yes sir!

from Mass Effect.


This could be a nice troll event, with a planet or a ship receiving a shot from nowhere.

 

[AndragonLea]

There is something like that, actually. One of your science ships can sometimes get surprised by a salvo of railgun ammunition that has been fired a long time ago. They gain a bunch of engineering research from it, afaik.

Unfortunately I didn't screenshot it when I had it. ^^

 

[General Retreat]

This is actually already in the game. There's an anomaly which results in one of your science ships being hit by a kinetic slug fired millions of years ago from a neighbouring galaxy.

 

[arctvrvs]

There is something like that, actually. One of your science ships can sometimes get surprised by a salvo of railgun ammunition that has been fired a long time ago. They gain a bunch of engineering research from it, afaik.

Unfortunately I didn't screenshot it when I had it. ^^

This is actually already in the game. There's an anomaly which results in one of your science ships being hit by a kinetic slug fired millions of years ago from a neighbouring galaxy.

Damn I must have missed it !