How to Unlock the Crystal Cruiser in FTL Part 1

FTL’s game play has already been explained on this blog in the past link Here. So the question of the day is How Would Someone Unlock the Crystal Cruiser?  To unlock the Crystal Cruiser, a player will have to undertake the most luck-based quest in FTL. First, the player must find the Dense Asteroid Field Distress Call event. Upon finding this event the player will be prompted with this message, “A ship without life forms within a nearby dense asteroid field is giving off the distress call. Shall we investigate? It could be dangerous.”

The player can choose between two options.

1. Search for the ship
2. Avoid the area

The player must choose the first choice to continue, but this event actually has three outcomes.

1. You find what appears to be pieces of a derelict ship coated with ice or crystal. Before you have a chance to dock, a few asteroids get past your shields and partially damage your engines. You’ll have to pull out!
2. You find a pirate ship, damaged and abandoned. You salvage what you can and move on.
3. You find the decaying remains of some kind of ship coated with ice or crystal. You send some crew aboard to explore. Nearly everything is either destroyed or unidentifiable, but one of the weapons appears salvageable and there’s a strange stasis pod that catches your eye.

The player needs to be lucky enough to get the third prompt. If the player gets the third prompt they will then get this message, “It looks like a massive asteroid is in a direct collision course with the derelict ship! You have to pull your crew out but they want to grab what they can first. What do they take?”

They then have two choices.

1. Take the weapon and any spare scrap.
2. Grab the stasis chamber.

The player must then select option two if they want to keep trying to acquire the Crystal Cruiser.

The player then needs to find the Zoltan Research Facility event while they have the stasis pod. When they find this event they will get this prompt, “You arrive at a Zoltan research facility. They say they are researching genetic distortion due to stasis sleep and prolonged FTL travel. They ask if your crew has the time to undergo a few scans.”

The player will then receive these options:

1. Participate in their study.
2. Decline.
3. (Damaged Stasis Pod) Ask if they can fix this.

They player needs to select option three. They will then be prompted with this series of messages:

“Interesting. I’ve never seen a cryogenic system like this. It appears to still be functioning…” They hook it up to their system and run a number of tests on it. “Amazing! It has the ability to reconstruct the body if it was damaged during transit. Watch.” They reactivate the pod and you watch as the hunks of crystal inside reform to build a humanoid structure. The pod slides open and the re-formed alien steps out. It speaks slowly, “Greetings. I appear to be in your debt. My people isolated themselves a long time ago, but perhaps it’s time to re-establish a connection. There’s a hidden wormhole near the Rock home-worlds. Perhaps you can take me there so I can properly repay you?”

After this, the player receives a new crewman and a new place to go in Part 2.