So I had a trader visiting from some local Elves.
Suddenly, a pack of manhunting Aerofleets are approaching.
Initially I said "fuck that" and hid inside my walls while the traders dealt with the issue.
You can probably guess what happened next, bloody chaos as the aerofleets blew up all over the visiting traders.
Once the threat was gone, there were elves everywhere bleeding out, and I felt awful that i'd left out these nice traders to fend for themselves against a dangerous threat.
I brought the injured inside and tended to their wounds, the actual trader themselves was named Dennis, and Dennis had both legs blown off by an aerofleet.
I tended to him, gave him new peg legs (its a start) and kept him safe until he recovered.
As Dennis left I got the message, his faction gained +79 relations with us for saving him.
We became official allies and we made our first real friends on this terrifying rimworld.
I love this game.