I have already explained how FTL works. For a refresher course, you can click Here. Now that you’re up to speed, the question of the day is: How to unlock the Federation cruiser and all of its layouts? To unlock the Federation cruiser, layout A,
you must find a rebel stronghold sector and come across the event Huge Rebel Shipyard. Once there you will be prompted with the message, “You arrive at the beacon to find yourself in a huge Rebel shipyard, scaffolding and construction drones filling the sector! The entire system looks devoted to ship construction, the nearby planets and moons ruthlessly mined to harvest resources for a ship of immense size…”
The player will have two choices:
- Look around
- Leave immediately
Choose option 1 to continue. Next, the player will be prompted with, “Warning lights flash as scans identify the gigantic ship under construction – it’s a second Rebel Flagship! This must be the secret shipyards where the first one was built, and you’ve accidentally stumbled across it! Even in its weakened state, the Rebel ship powers up… get ready, you’ve got a … fight on your hands.”
The player then has to fight a partially constructed rebel flag ship.
Once the player defeats that, they will see this message, “As you are leaving you detect an interesting Federation ship signal. Apparently the Rebels were reverse engineering the advanced weaponry on a prototype Federation cruiser. You don’t know how they captured the ship intact but you program its FTL drive to return the ship to the nearest Federation base. You just hope it gets there unharmed.”
Completing this unlocks layout A.
As always, acquiring 2 achievements will unlock layout B, and getting layout B to sector 8 will unlock layout C. The achievements are:
- Master of Patience: use only the artillery beam to destroy the enemy ship while taking no hull damage.
- Diplomatic Immunity: while using the Federation cruiser, use your crew and 4 special blue events by sector 5.
- Artillery Master: get to sector 5 with the Federation cruiser without upgrading your weapons systems.
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