

This was on easy, but yeah.the rewards for surrender tend to be the least, killing them is more but keeping the ship alive is like 2x the resources of killing them, if you get your teleporter crew together early and you learn to teleport them in and out of danger and heal constantly then you can ace the entire game, with the severe shortage of resourecs on "normal" mode I see this being one of the better strategies. I went into the last sector basically as maxed out as possible, I killed the last boss's crew in 1 attack, left with half helf, followed him and attacked again and final assault I died, he had a lucky salvo I was on about 1/3 health and lost it all in like 3 seconds which is extremely gay.

FTL FASTER THAN LIGHT MORE SHIELD UPGRADE
It's the first run where I maxed all my crew mates (4 insect assault squad, 4 humans manning battlestations), due to the extended fights all 4 insets were max fighting strength (they go gold), all 4 humans were max level at doing their respective jobs (shield, dodge, pilot, weapons), I had basically every single upgrade for the ship possible. I took an early upgrade path of increased shields and engines and simply weathered their attacks, remember that you dont need to blow the weapons rooms to stop the battle, merely kill all the crew. Later it gets harder the crew will heal, you want to be teleporting some kind of missile inside the medbay if they have one, that solves that little problem. Teleport on board, kill the crew members, you take the ship alive and you get the maximum reward which is a LOT of scrap and quite often a weapon.

Best tactic BY FAR for my was one I used tonight, you want to grab a teleporter early on, grab 2 insect team mates who do increase damage.
