Best Strategies and Ships for the Different Difficulties

Hi vivajeffvegas!

The distress beacon is sometimes found from enemy ships, they are essentially a distress beacon used by that specific race. You can activate it in the star map, there will be a green button next to the "travel to next sector" button. When you have a distress beacon in your inventory that button will be available there. If you don't have a distress beacon the button won't be visible.

Now, when you press the distress beacon button you will call out a "I'm in trouble here, help me!". But it is a call for the race you grabbed it from. This means enemies from nearby sectors will jump towards your sector to help their mate.

It is especially useful if you are at a Battlestation, you can then press the distress beacon, wait for 1 turn and they will attack. Because you are at a battlestation you will have a real advantage in the fight. Another good situation to use it in is when a sector has a lot of enemies in it and you need to jump there. You can activate the beacon and see that some of the enemy ships will jump towards you. Now jump to the sector and face less enemies!