Friendly Precursors

[Akhillis (OP)]

Well, friendly might be taking it a bit too far.

I've run into a pair of Precursor ships that seem resolutely non-hostile.  They've been floating around a system that I'm settling, occasionally turning on their active sensors, but never attacking.  When I sent a fleet out, they simply avoided it.  Their sensors and engines are miles ahead of mine, so we've just left each other alone so far.

Anyone else run into something like this?

[Black]

Those are Precursor scout ships, they don't have any weapons.

[MarcAFK]

Boarding party! Free tech!
Or, target practice!

[Black]

Well those scouts are very fast. So it is not that easy to destroy or capture those ships.

[MarcAFK]

Hmm, perhaps you could drop some mines around the system with long range high speed missiles?

[Black]

I suppose that would work, if you are able to lure the scouts into the mine range. You can also use small fast fighters to destroy or cripple them. When their engines are gone you can capture them easily.

[joeclark77]

I've also had precursor troop ships act like this, but they didn't use active sensors so I don't think that's what you're dealing with.