We finally found it!

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**We finally found it!** is the 40th episode of Assertive Acquisitions. In this episode, the group finally gets a source of uranium thanks to TFE, and Splitsie and Capac build new fighter craft.

## Synopsis

Splitsie reconsiders the way fighters will re-enter the carrier and reconfigured it by dismantling and redoing the welder array he built in the last episode.

While doing this, light patrol drones continue to attack from the hiding pirate station, prompting Splitsie to talk to TFE about having a way to turn of his ship's guns to conserve ammunition.

### Discovering Uranium

Tired of Splitsie complaining about his ship's turrets using up the group's limited ammunition pool, TFE decides to head out in the Marlin and search for magnesium. Instead, TFE manages to discover an asteroid with uranium ore.

Splitsie excitedly tells Capac that thanks to the excess of uranium that TFE had mined, they could afford to do a test fire of the carrier's railguns. But first, they design and build the ship's nuclear reactors, since having enough electricity is a prerequisite to firing railguns.

### Building Fighters

Splitsie and Capac design fighters for the recently built bays on the carrier. For now, Splitsie's is named the Pointy Stick and Capac's is named the Green Menace.

### Assault on the Hiding Pirate Station

The group gets into their fighters; Splitsie and Capac in the newly build Pointy Stick and Green Menace respectively, and TFE in the H-Tram. They have are having a look around for potential targets to test the new fighters on, when TFE gets a heading on the hiding pirate station.

As the group flies towards the station, they encounter some more light patrol drones, which don't hinder them at all and get torn to shreds by Capac's eight gatling guns.

#### Attack

Splitsie hands outside the range of the station's turrets, and uses his fighter's railguns for the first time to pick them off while TFE and Capac deal with drones.

To the astonishment of the others, Capac flies into the station's turret range for some reason and makes evasive maneuvers dodges bullets and rockets while being called a lunatic.

Splitsie finishes disabling the station's exterior turrets, and calls for the others to disable their turrets and move in to board it.

Capac points out that he has seen this station before, saying he was pretty sure they had one of them glued to the Agglomination, referencing Survival Unlikely. Splitsie sarcastically thanks him for "totally... crossing the streams."

#### Boarding

The group gathers outside the station's airlock. Splitsie asks who wants to lead the boarding party, and Capac volunteers Splitsie do it because last time he led a boarding he got shot. The group enters the airlock, and Splitsie uses the button panel to cycle it. The station's air lock cycling process however involved an alarm noise, which panicked Capac. This causeed him to grind open the exterior door, which explosively decompresses the entire station, killing all three of them. They all respawn in the Marlin and have to fly back to the station by jetpack.

They hack the station and use its thrusters to fly it back to the carrier.

## Hauntings

TFE discovers that one of the doors on the H-Tram is somehow misbehaving. Whenever he opens it, it closes itself again right away. It also opens when the door on the opposite side is opened.

## Speculation

Capac mentions in this episode that he recognizes the pirate station they attacked, and remembers gluing one of them to the Agglomination. This implies that either Assertive Acquisitions takes place after Survival Unlikely, or perhaps that Capac had encountered a station of the same make and model as his time being a Space Warrior Monk for Hire in the backstory of Assertive Acquisitions.

## Behind the Scenes

The station that they capture in this episode is an Encounter Stealth Pirate Station from the Space Engineers base game.