My Rubricator was stolen...

[rubert]

... by these guys who just happened to stumble on the battle between Shard and my fleet.

See https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...reenshot-thread.926643/page-304#post-27226810 if the images have been deleted.

Spoiler

 

[Spaceception]

BAHAHAHA that sucks. I mean, seriously.... damn. What're the odds? I don't suppose you can save scum?

 

[rubert]

Yeah, it's not a problem. Auto save was just couple months old. I never play Iron man as you can see from the spoilered screenshot where I tag switched to the placid leviathans to confirm that they got the relic.

 

[Methone]

"Whale be taking that, thank you."

 

[Chaines]

Killing them didn't do anything i guess ?

 

[Defiler99]

Killing them didn't do anything i guess ?

You'd have to conquer their homeworld to have a chance of re-acquiring the relic, and they don't have one. Whoops!

 

[Edorath]

The virgin intergalactic empire vs the chad placid leviathan

 

[rubert]

Killing them didn't do anything i guess ?

I didn't try as I just reloaded from the previous autosave but I doubt there is such edge case in the event files even if they had homeworld.

 

[Akamia]

Yoink!

Honestly, I'm amazed they even attack Shard.

 

[Kain2K]

I'd suggest to file a bug report.
Oh! And: rofl

 

[OnyxAbussos]

This is the most righteous thing in the history of things. Like BRUH...

 

[RoverStorm]

Came in expecting multiplayer opponent to have stolen it.

Was not disappointed with what I actually found.

 

[The Founder]

You should bug-report this under a title like "Space Whales stole my Rubricator"

 

[siggiemil]

I had a similar experience where a construction ship belonging to a federation ally snatched the Rubricator after the battle (dirty thieving mammals pretending to be my friend). Was playing a synth-ascendent empire with the Cybrex War Forge running 100% so I probably never would have used it. I was mainly disappointed as I was just two relics away from getting the Relic Hunter achievement.

Battle log showed that the construction ship single handedly killed Shard(!) even though my grand fleet was ambushing him when I excavated the site... the construction ship was just idly orbiting the star, quite far away from the planet.

 

[Akamia]

Battle log showed that the construction ship single handedly killed Shard(!) even though my grand fleet was ambushing him when I excavated the site... the construction ship was just idly orbiting the star, quite far away from the planet.

... the hell?

How?!

Construction ships have no weapons!

 

[siggiemil]

They probably used the old “let’s jettison the warp core and detonate it!” trick.

 

[Secret Master]

... by these guys who just happened to stumble on the battle between Shard and my fleet.

Spoiler

 

[RELee]

Space Whales stole his Rubricator!

Space Whales!

 

[The Bored Chairman]

Several thousand years from now, a pop from this empire will appear from the stomach of the Space whale that stole the Rubricator after another empire kills it.

 

[The Founder]

... the hell?

How?!

Construction ships have no weapons!

They are drawn into combat anyway. And then they might catch the on_fleet_destroyed event:

# This = owner of fleet 1 (destroyed)
# From = owner of fleet 2 (combatant)
# FromFrom = fleet 1
# FromFromFrom = fleet 2
on_fleet_destroyed_victim = {
   events = {
       country.16
       country.18
       country.20
       country.220
       galactic_features.3
       country.1021
       country.1060
       anomaly.3097
       leviathans.331
       leviathans.3203
       #leviathans.649
       marauder.51
       #marauder.13 - Marauder infighting aftermath - commented out for now
       crisis.108
       crisis.125
       marauder.115
   }
}

# This = owner of fleet 1 (combatant)
# From = owner of fleet 2 (destroyed)
# FromFrom = fleet 1
# FromFromFrom = fleet 2
on_fleet_destroyed_perp = {
   events = {
       country.9
       country.11
       country.14
       country.215
       country.216
       country.1020
       country.1043
       colony.181
       observation.5
       story.109
       #story.114
       #story.209
       #story.309
       #story.311
       #story.214
       story.216
       story.332
       #story.409
       anomaly.3101
       anomaly.3120
       anomaly.3121
       galactic_features.360
       crisis.1111
       crisis.70
       leviathans.1009
       leviathans.1012
       leviathans.1015
       leviathans.1032
       leviathans.1040
       leviathans.648
       leviathans.655
       leviathans.670
       leviathans.334
       leviathans.2014
       leviathans.4
       pirate.24
       akx.9318
       akx.10030
       factions.330
       factions.10
       crisis.2472
       distar.5009
       cara.1002 # Destroyed Caravaneer Fleet 1
       cara.2002 # Destroyed Caravaneer Fleet 2
       cara.3002 # Destroyed Caravaneer Fleet 3
       ancrel.4020
   }
   random_events = {
       300 = 0
       2 = leader.1
       2 = leader.5
       2 = leader.6
       2 = leader.7
       2 = leader.8
       2 = leader.9
       2 = leader.17
   }
}