Teleportation, Doppelgangers and Blammo walk into a bar...

YouTube thumbnail, depicting the destruction of Agitation Station

**Teleportation, Doppelgangers and Blammo walk into a bar...** is the 33rd episode of Assertive Acquisitions. It is the last episode to take place on the moon that the series started on.

It is the first episode to be recorded in the Space Engineers Automatons Update. The update is explained in the lore of the series as them getting "software updates." Splitsie had been waiting for it so he could design missile drones for the carrier, but he got distracted and was not able to get to it in this episode.

## Synopsis

### Battle Against A Valle Crucis

A Valle Crucis signal appears, passing over Agitation Station. Splitsie cuts his discussion about making missiles using the new "software updates" they got short to urgently organize an attack against it to acquire its uranium.

### Preparing to Leave

As the Valle Crucis is being ground down, the group notices that an Assert Drone Operations has appeared nearby. Splitsie is not sure how long the still under-construction carrier is going to stand up against a drone ops sending stuff after them, so they decide to pack up their stuff into the carrier and just leave.

Splitsie uses the Wasabi to assist the bases' defenses in defeating a drone swarm sent by the drone operations, meanwhile TFE parks the Nemo in the Marlin and Capac works on preparing the carrier's cargo systems.

Splitsie and Capac construct temporary cargo containers and hydrogen tanks inside the carrier, which are mounted on a rotor because Capac thought it would be funny. Splitsie transfer all the cargo and hydrogen from Agitation Station into them, meanwhile Capac upgrades his ship, the Tugg of War, to have more lifting thrust so that it can lift the carrier into orbit.

TFE rigs Agitation Station to explode with warheads, planning to blow it up so ASSERT can't take the base after they leave.

Capac locks the Tugg of War to the carrier with its landing gear.

Splitsie uses the Underbiter to transport all of the ASSERT thrusters they had collected from Agitation Station's underground parking area to on top of the carrier.

### Evacuation of the moon

Splitsie disconnects the carrier from Agitation Station and the ground, and makes his way to the bridge as the Tugg of War very slowly lifts it. TFE sets the warheads to explode and takes off in the Marlin. The trio watch Agitation Station explode beneath them as they fly to orbit.

As they reach space, TFE maneuvers to landing gear lock the Marlin to the carrier, and TFE engages the Marlin's jump drive to jump them all out of the system.

## Continuity

The ship that Capac used to arrive to Agitation Station in episode 11, A Helping Hand, was still on the surface outside the station when they left. During the preparations to leave the base, Splitsie asked Capac if he wanted to bring it with them, but Capac said that it was just "a decoy," its only purpose apparently being to draw enemy fire during drone attacks.

## Behind the Scenes

While them leaving the world was portrayed during the episode as a response to a drone operations facility spawning nearby, the real reason why they left so early was due to the save file being unstable and crashing all the time. This was revealed at an end of the video, with a montage of the game crashing in place of the usual replays of them crashing their ships.

1. ↑ "Assert Drone Operations?!" —TFE, https://youtu.be/9oxupZ5z2f0?t=1312
2. ↑ "Capac, are we bringing your blue thing?"

"No, don't worry about it. It's a decoy."

https://youtu.be/9oxupZ5z2f0?t=1542