Mystery Ship not a UFO

[Tony C]

I,ve been using my unfoccessed drive and i've arrived at an unknown sector with a Ka'ak station and a ship which doesn't show up on scanners. I've tried to claim it but I can't, what's going on is it a glitch with the programme

[Master of the Blade]

Got any marines handy? That's one of the rarest and most prized ships in the game.

[Aragosnat]

He found the ____!

[Probe1]

Whatever you do don't post screenshots.

[Sabrina Bergin]

This ia the aran you have to board it but use repair laser and 5 star mech narines or it will explode great toy to own also save game here absoloutely

[Tony C]

No damm it I haven' t got any marines on board and no way of getting the ones I have got to me, I know if I go and get them I'll never find the ship again.

[pr0nflakes]

They turn up all the time dont worry about it.
If you want to hunt them follow this tip and you'll get plenty...

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As you leave the sector and enter the unknown (UFJD) sector if you see a slight delay on the loading screen, either a station a Aran or a gate was added. So if you only search the sectors with a slight delay you will save a great deal og time.

I have 43 of them BTW, the're really usefull for storing saved up resourses for the Hub plot as the cargo space is huge (twice as much as a mammoth).
No guns unfortunatly but you can dock 30 ships upto TS and M6 class or 29 and one M1/M2/M7(m)/TL class ship.

[WeriTis]

I have 43 of them BTW, the're really usefull for saved up resourses in the Hub plot.

43 Arans.

Dock them together.

ALL OF THEM.

YOu know you want to, do the Aran-bridge!

[pr0nflakes]

Dock them together.

ALL OF THEM.

YOu know you want to, do the Aran-bridge!

Lol Xzibit style (we heard you like Arans....)

Actually didnt think of trying that i may give it a go one day

I have them all sat in Legends Home ATM heres a pic.

http://i.imgur.com/qXPrt.jpg

[Jumee]

you should dock them all in one another and then get into a capital ship get close to them go to external view and feel like a tiny mosquito

[TTD]

looks much neater when docked together.

43 ! wow

[Alan Phipps]

Thanks to Carlo the Curious for this. That is only ten.

[Rhox]

Well, a bit more of information about Arans:
They are M1's and have heavy shielding (6x2GJ), but are very slow (normally 12 m/s). However, they have a cargobay of 120.000 XL, so they're presestined as giant, slow-moving storage bays.
What makes them special is that they can dock 30 ships of which one can be a big capital (M1/M2/M7/M7M/TL) and the rest can also be ships that normally can't dock at an M1 (TS/TM/TP/M6/M8]. Of course it can dock standard fighters as well.
You can only find them in UFJD sectors and they are always in pretty bad shape (around 10% hull left). To find them, chose the asteroid that is the farthest away from you, get into view mode (target it and then press F3), zoom out to the maximun and take a look around it. If you see a long yellow dot, you have found it. To board it, get very close, eject from your ship and fire at it with the repair laser until you hear the "hostile ship/station is near" music. Then access your boarding menu and manually start the boarding op. After your marines have taken the ship, it will show up on the gravidar.
Always have some money ready once you got one. The repair of the ship will cost between 100 and 120 million.

best regards,
Rhox

[Aragosnat]

Just got my first Aran 8 hours ago. Well worth staying up past 2 am reboarding with only 5 maxed mariens. Also make sure you have at least a tp or better as it will be less hair raising when capping. But, I wanted totry it in my donated / looted hyperion. Lost 3 marines. But, not going to try and save them all.