History Awesome / FTLFasterThanLight

* If you can send 4 Mantis onto an opposing ship using a Teleporter, they'll kill the entire crew, assuming there is any. Medbay? No problem, they'll kill the fleeing crewman ''before it can even leave the room''. Clone Bay? Even less of an issue. And they can do all that without any fancy [[spoiler:Crystal Lockdown power]] or even a simple hacking module latched onto the Medbay. Watching your Mantis systematically murder the entire crew of the Rebel Flagship like this is truly a sight to behold.

[[caption-width-right:300:"Thanks to the vailant effort of ''[[HelloInsertNameHere <ship name>]]'', and her successful crew: ''<crew names>'', the Rebel's [[FinalBoss flagship]] was destroyed, [[KeystoneArmy throwing their fleet into chaos]] and ensuring a [[TheFederation Federation]] victory."]]

** Masterful use in the [[GlassCannon DA-SR 12]] results in this, if you find a Pre-Ignitor alongside a Flak II (if you have ''Advanced Edition'' turned on of course). Even the mighty Rebel Flagship itself stands little chance aside from the occasional lucky shot in-between cloak cooldowns.

->''"Thanks to the vailant effort of ''<ship name>'', and her successful crew: ''<crew names>'', the Rebel's [[FinalBoss flagship]] was destroyed, [[KeystoneArmy throwing their fleet into chaos]] and ensuring a [[TheFederation Federation]] victory."''
-->--'''The ending screen'''

* If you can send 4 Mantis onto an opposing ship using a Teleporter, they'll kill the entire crew, assuming there is any. Medbay? No problem, they'll kill the fleeing crewman ''before it can even leave the room''. Clone Bay? Even less of an issue. And they can do all that without any fancy [[spoiler:Crystal Lockdown power]] or even a simple hacking module latched onto the Medbay. Watching your Mantis systematically murder the entire crew of the Rebel Flagship like this is truly is a sight to behold.

* If you can send 4 Mantis onto an opposing ship using a Teleporter, they'll kill the entire crew, assuming there is any. Medbay? No problem, they'll kill the fleeing crewman ''before it can even leave the room''. Clone Bay? Even less of an issue. And they can do all that without any fancy [[spoiler:Crystal Lockdown power]] or even a simple hacking module latched onto the Medbay. It truly is a sight to behold.

* A big one for the developers; after delivering an absolutely fantastic product, they went on to tweak and improve it, fixed a bunch major bugs on the way, and slapped on some serious content additions, effectively creating what other companies would sell as sequel, or at least a major expansion pack. What does Subset Games do? [[DoingItForTheArt Release it for free]].

* You may encounter a Mantis Cruiser [[{{Gorn}} lined with Rock body parts]]. If you're flying either Rock Cruiser, you get an option called "[[RammingAlwaysWorks Ram the bastards.]]" Doing this will disable the Mantis ship's engines permanently allowing you to get guaranteed hits, in a very rare opportunity to preemptively disable an enemy's systems instead of the other way around.

* A bit one for the developers; after delivering an absolutely fantastic product, they went on to tweak and improve it, fixed a bunch major bugs on the way, and slapped on some serious content additions, effectively creating what other companies would sell as sequel, or at least a major expansion pack. What does Subset Games do? [[DoingItForTheArt Release it for free]].

* Outwitting the [[ConMan Slugs]], whether it be by using your own Slug's psychic powers to sense their attempts to plunder your ship, letting a Rock crewmember NoSell a spiked drink, getting a Mantis to slice them in half after they try to lure you off your ship, or just by forcing them to surrender after kicking the crap out of their ship.

* Buying (or lucking into) two Mk II attack drones. One player reportedly [[http://imgur.com/a/RMbKL destroyed the flagship in under three minutes]].

** For an extra touch, reduce the flagship's crew down to one, then [[CoupDeGrace finish off the last crew memeber and the ship at the same time]].

* You may encounter a Mantis Cruiser [[{{Gorn}} lined with Rock body parts]]. If you're flying either Rock Cruiser, you get an option called "[[RammingAlwaysWorks Ram the bastards.]]" Doing this will disable the Mantis ship's engines permanently allowing you to get guaranteed hits, in a very rare opportunity to preemptively disable an enemy's systems instead of the other way around.

* The Weapon Pre-Igniter or Automated Loader plus a crazy-powerful weapon like the Glaive Beam. Sending more than one Boarding Drone is also hilarious: punching holes in the enemy hull and watching your killer robots rampage through the enemy ship is awesome.
** If you're very, very lucky, you can get the Weapon Pre-Igniter as a post-battle reward, a surrender offer, or best of all, ''a random "found an item" event.'' If it happens, [[GameBreaker have fun breaking the game]].

* You may encounter a Mantis Cruiser [[{{Gorn}} lined with Rock body parts]]. If you're flying either Rock Cruiser, you get an option called "Ram the bastards." Doing this will disable the Mantis ship's engines permanently allowing you to get guaranteed hits, in a very rare opportunity to preemptively disable an enemy's systems instead of the other way around.

* The Weapon Pre-Igniter or Automated Loader plus a crazy-powerful weapon like the Glaive Beam. Sending more than one Boarding Drone is also hilarious: punching holes in the enemy hull and watching your killer robots rampage through the enemy ship is awesome.

* Having the appropriate weapons for the Giant Spiders: Gliding up to the airlock and letting an anti-personnel drone to quickly kill the creatures, or the more awesome (if less rewarded) option of slamming a boarding drone through the stations hull before it starts tearing the spiders apart, or the surgical option of using a bio-beam to pick them off one by one.

* When you encounter the plague-infested station, if you have an advanced medbay and the Engi Med-Bot Dispersal augment, you can cure the entire station in ''less than a minute''. Even the game notes that the colony leaders are astonished.

* Beating the game for the first time. Admit it, you cheered.