Blue Options are choices within Random Encounters and Events that can be selected only if your ship has the required equipment, crew, or system upgrades. Blue options often have more favorable outcomes than their counterparts.
Events with 'blue options' are sorted below by their requirements. Note that the blue option choices are sometimes named slightly differently in-game, and the events pages often contain the sic! examples of these notations.
Some blue options which make use of drones or weapons will consume the expandable resource, while in some cases it is only required to have a sufficient amount (usually 1 is enough) of the resource to use the blue option. There are some events with non-blue options that simply require a certain amount of expendable resources - they belong to Category: Events with Resources use and are not listed on this page (but the category includes relevant blue option events).
Note: some events listed on this page were renamed at some point. For an up-to-date list of renamed events, see the Events titles changes and redirects (table) (the table also contains the datafiles names and alternative/shorter titles for the events).
Augmentations[]
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Backup DNA Bank[]
Damaged Stasis Pod[]
Distraction Buoys[]
Engi Med-bot Dispersal[]
Lifeform Scanner[]
- Drifting debris
- Rebel ship in nebula (equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners or Sensors-3)
- Small research station with no response
Long-Ranged Scanners[]
- Destroyed cargo ship (equivalent of Sensors 2-3)
- Encrypted federation signal (equivalent of Sensors-3 at Hidden Federation Base)
- Engi distress call (equivalent of Sensors-3 at Hidden Federation Base; Engi crew is a preliminary requirement)
- Engi research station (equivalent of Sensors 2-3)
- Federation ship in need of aid (equivalent of Sensors-3 at Hidden Federation Base)
- Heavily damaged Federation ship (inferior to Crew Teleporter blue option)
- Prepare to dock (equivalent of Sensors-3)
- Rebel ship in nebula (equivalent of Lifeform Scanner or Sensors-3)
- Small asteroid belt distress beacon (equivalent of Sensors-3 at Hidden Federation Base)
Rock Plating[]
- Dense asteroid field distress call (Unlock Crystal Cruiser)
- Mantis ship with Rock body parts
- Small asteroid belt distress beacon
Scrap Recovery Arm[]
Crew[]
Crystal crew[]
- Ancient device
- Crystal civilian question
- Crystalline cache (equivalent of Breach Missiles)
Engi crew[]
- Engi distress call
- Engi fleet discussion (Unlocks Stealth Cruiser)
- Malfunctioning defense system (equivalent of Ion weapon or Cloaking-3)
- Nebula seen ships exchange fire (equivalent to a standard correct answer)
- Refugee ship trading for scrap
- The Engi virus
- Two smashed Engi ships
- Unknown disease on mining colony (equivalent of Rockman crew or Medbay 2-3)
Human crew[]
Lanius crew[]
- Civilians fleeing from Lanius
- Civilians under fire from Lanius
- Lanius absorbing jump beacon
- Lanius absorbing rebel base
- Lanius salvaging
- Lanius scavenger trader
- Merchant docked with Lanius
- Powered-down Lanius vessel
- Science craft docked with Lanius
- Space station under construction
- The Engi virus
Mantis crew[]
- Confused Mantis
- Legendary thief KazaaakplethKilik (Unlock Mantis Cruiser) (serves only for Diplomatic Immunity achievement)
- Slug oxygen malfunction
Rockman crew[]
- Crystalline research facility
- Fire on small research station
- Mantis ship with Rock body parts (serves only for Diplomatic Immunity achievement)
- Rock armoured transport
- Slug drink
- Unknown disease on mining colony (equivalent of Engi crew or Medbay 2-3)
Slug crew[]
- Disabled Rock transport
- Intelligent lifeform on planet
- Nebula seen ships exchange fire
- Pirate ship selling drones (serves only for Diplomatic Immunity achievement)
- Poorly armed Slug ship
- Single life form on moon
- Slug Home Nebula surrender (Unlock Slug Cruiser)
- Slug transport with military escort (advice role only)
- The Black Raven
- Zoltan security checkpoint (equivalent of Mind Control)
Zoltan crew[]
- Federation terraforming team C12 (equivalent of Sensors 2-3)
- Zoltan trade hub
Drones[]
Anti-Personnel Drone 
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- Giant alien spiders (requires 1 drone part)
- Merchant's request (requires 1 drone part)
- Small research station with no response (requires 1 drone part)
Beam Drone 
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- Auto-ship sits dormant (requires 1 drone part)
- Crushed pirate (equivalent of Beam weapon or Artillery Beam) (requires 1 drone part)
- Rock live mine (requires 1 drone part)
Boarding Drone 
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- Giant alien spiders (requires 1 drone part)
- Odd moon (requires 1 drone part)
Combat Drone []
- Auto-ship sits dormant (requires 1 drone part)
Defense Drone []
- Small asteroid belt distress beacon (equivalent of Repair Drone) (requires 1 drone part)
Hull Repair Drone []
- Fuel Engi ship repair (requires 1 drone part)
- Lanius absorbing jump beacon
- Mantis ships battle for Rock freighter [no benefit] (requires 1 drone part)
System Repair Drone []
- Fire on small research station
- Mantis ships battle for Rock freighter (requires 1 drone part)
- Small asteroid belt distress beacon (equivalent of Defense Drone) (requires 1 drone part)
Systems[]
Artillery Beam[]
- Crushed pirate (equivalent of Beam weapon or Beam Drone)
Cloaking[]
- Auto-ship fight in plasma storm (equivalent of Engines 6-8)
- Auto-ship near small space-station (Lv 1 equivalent of Hacking-1; Lv 2-3 equivalent of Hacking 2-3)
- Auto-ship near storage vessel
- Malfunctioning defense system (Lv 3 equivalent of Ion weapon or Engi crew)
- Mantis ship doesn't see you
- Prepare to dock
- Stationed Rebel ship
Clone Bay[]
- Abandoned space station
- Legendary thief KazaaakplethKilik (Unlock Mantis Cruiser) (Lv 2-3 equivalent of Medbay 2-3)
- Nebula seen ships exchange fire (Lv 1-3 equivalent of Medbay 2-3)
- Single life form on moon (Lv 2-3 equivalent of Medbay 2-3 in one of scenarios)
- Space station under construction
Crew Teleporter[]
- Auto-ship near sensor station
- Crystalline cache (level 2+)
- Federation ship in need of aid (similar to Healing Burst in one of outcomes/rewards)
- Friendly slaver (level 2+)
- Heavily damaged Federation ship (superior to Long-Ranged Scanners)
- Legendary thief KazaaakplethKilik (Unlock Mantis Cruiser) (equivalent of Sensors-3)
- Merchant's request (negative crew loss option in one of scenarios in Merchant's Delivery, filler effect/no benefit in one of scenarios in Merchant's Investigation)
- Small asteroid belt distress beacon
- Small research station with no response (negative crew loss option in one of scenarios)
- Unencrypted communication channel (equivalent of Anti-Bio Beam or Fire Bomb)
- Zoltan trade hub
Door System[]
Drone Control[]
- Pirate ship selling drones [not a blue option per se, but serves the same purpose]
Engines[]
- Auto-ship fight in plasma storm (Lv 6-8 equivalent of Cloaking 1-3)
- Crystalline cache
- Pirate slaver
- Stationed Rebel ship
- Rock live mine
Hacking[]
- Auto-ship carrying shield virus
- Auto-ship near small space-station (Lv 1 equivalent of Cloaking-1, Lv 2-3 equivalent of Cloaking 2-3) (requires 1 drone part)
- Auto-ship sits dormant (requires 1 drone part)
- Dangerous-looking ship
- Human boarders jammed sensors
- Pirate engine hacker
- Pirate ship selling drones
- Slug disable door system
- Slug sabotage medical unit
- Slug sabotage oxygen system
- The Engi virus
Medbay[]
- Damaged space station (Lv 2-3 for crew safety in one of scenarios)
- Legendary thief KazaaakplethKilik (Unlock Mantis Cruiser) (Lv 2-3 equivalent of Clone Bay 2-3)
- Merchant's request (Lv 2 for crew safety and Lv 3 for crew reward in some scenarios in Merchant's Delivery)
- Nebula seen ships exchange fire (Lv 2-3 equivalent of Clone Bay 1-3)
- Single life form on moon (caveman encounter: Lv 1 for crew safety in one of scenarios and Lv 2-3 for crew reward in one of the other scenarios)
- Slug sabotage medical unit
- Small research station with no response (Lv 2 for crew safety in one of scenarios and Lv 3 for crew reward in one of the other scenarios)
- Unknown disease on mining colony (equivalent of Engi crew or Rockman crew)
- Zoltan research facility (Lv 3 for drone schematics reward)
Mind Control[]
- Black market weapons trader
- Confused Mantis (superior to Mantis crew blue option)
- Large trade station
- Merchant's request
- Zoltan security checkpoint (equivalent of Slug crew)
Oxygen[]
- Dangerous-looking ship [not a blue option per se, but serves the same purpose]
- Slug sabotage oxygen system
Piloting[]
Sensors[]
- Auto-ship near sensor station
- Brutal exchange between several ships
- Deactivated Auto-ship
- Destroyed cargo ship (equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners)
- Encrypted federation signal (Lv 3 equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners at Hidden Federation Base)
- Engi distress call (Lv 3 equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners at Hidden Federation Base; Engi crew is a preliminary requirement)
- Engi research station (Lv 2-3 equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners)
- Federation ship in need of aid (Lv 3 equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners at Hidden Federation Base)
- Federation terraforming team C12 (equivalent of Zoltan crew)
- Legendary thief KazaaakplethKilik (Unlock Mantis Cruiser) (Lv 3 equivalent of Crew Teleporter 1-3)
- Prepare to dock (Lv 3 equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners)
- Rebel ship in nebula (Lv 3 equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners or Lifeform Scanners)
- Rebel ship nearby
- Refueling platform garbled broadcast
- Rock deserters (Lv 2-3 for crew reward)
- Slug Home Nebula surrender (Unlock Slug Cruiser) (Lv 2-3 equivalent of Slug crew at quest marker after ship surrender)
- Small asteroid belt distress beacon (Lv 3 equivalent of Long-Ranged Scanners at Hidden Federation Base)
Weapon Control[]
Weapons[]
Anti-Bio Beam[]
- Giant alien spiders
- Unencrypted communication channel (equivalent of Fire Bomb or Crew Teleporter)
Beam weapon[]
- Crushed pirate (equivalent of Beam Drone or Artillery Beam)
Breach Missiles[]
- Crystalline cache (equivalent of Crystal crew) (requires 1 missile ammo)
Fire Beam[]
- Remote settlement (equivalent of Fire Bomb)
Fire Bomb[]
- Mantis war camp (requires 2 missiles ammo)
- Remote settlement (equivalent of Fire Beam) (requires 1 missile ammo)
- Unencrypted communication channel (equivalent of Anti-Bio Beam or Crew Teleporter)
Healing Burst[]
- Federation ship in need of aid (similar to Crew Teleporter in one of outcomes/rewards) (requires 1 missile ammo)
Ion weapon[]
- Malfunctioning defense system (equivalent of Cloaking-3 or Engi crew)
Missile weapon[]
- Asteroid Mining Colony [the option has no effect]
- Mantis war camp (requires 1 missile ammo) [bugged: Hull Missile doesn't count]
- Rock live mine [bugged: Hull Missile doesn't count]
