Weird ship encounter involving Milli
I came across a Carry-All floating in space. Hailed it; no response, so I docked, boarded it. Muria was following me - but, to my surprise, Milli (who’s been hanging around on my ship) came aboard, too.
Even bigger surprise, Milli went feral, and attacked both me and Muria.
Of course Muria counter-attacked, and killed Milli. So I bailed out, reloaded, sent Muria back to her post, and boarded the ship alone.
Milli showed up again, and attacked me again. I ignored it, and went exploring. There were a bunch of bodies - freestar security, crew, and scientists - who apparently had been torched by the still-live-and-looking-for-blood turrets. Blew ‘em up, natch, and made it to the bridge, were there was one last turret, and a dead captain near the turret-control computer.
So it looked like the captain activated the turrets on combat mode in order to kill herself and everyone else on board the ship.
But why?
And why did Milli sneak aboard, and attack me?
But that‘s not all. Once I undocked, the ship came alive and attacked me, with the (presumably) captain’s voice taunting me over the radio. And this was genuinely the hardest single-ship battle I fought (I’m running the game at extreme in ship encounters).
And this is separate from the other derelict-ship-filled-with-dead-bodies encounter; I ran across that one already, and those bodies are desiccated, and have been dead for awhile. Plus no turrets and no Killi (Milli’s evil persona).
But add those two things together, plus the Old Woman who hasn’t been feeling quite herself lately, and it seems like something weird is happening in the Settled Systems and beyond …