Yesterday I had my first serious fight in paranid space.
A Hat fighter and behemoth attacked my trade ship, I transported to the trader in the last second and docked it at the nearest station. Then I switched to the gorgo frigate which escorted the trader and quickly destroyed the fighter. After that I went on to the behemoth and managed to disable it's shields while some xenon and Khaak show up.
I join the paranid defence forces in destroying the xenon and Khaak, scoop up the remainders and then continued with the behemoth, taking out all its turrets and doing big damage to the hull. Now I wanted to capture that thing but in the process right after sending in my marines I notice some paranoids turning red on me. Apparently I scooped up some illegal xenon components.
I lure most of the paranid away from the behemoth but they follow me into teladi space where I hide at a station.
After capture the Behemoth is still swarmed by two enemy fighters but I promote one of the marines to become captain and the rest are assigned to service crew.
The service crew managed to repair some turrets and hull so the behemoth could start shooting back and finally managed to destroy the fighters.
I order the captain to repair at the nearby shipyard and he slowly crawls there with heavily damaged engines.
Most paranid police forces turned blue by now but there was one gorgo which was harassing my station I had in the system and would not turn blue because of the turrets. The gorgo already destroyed two of the stations transports
I switched to my personal fighter which is my starter discoverer tuned with some modifications and begin my attack. After I shot down the gorgos hull a fair bit the crew bailed and it turned blue.
Luckily all remaining paranids turned blue and I was still at 24 faction rep. Lost 2 M freighters and 8 defence drones but gained a behemoth and a gorgo. So the fight was well worth it.
Please feel free to share your own experiences(but without too much spoilers as there is a separate spoiler forum)
