Haha, ouch - I remember an early bug where pirates would become super powerful and just destroy the universe.. or maybe that was a mod acting up? hmm.. Anyway they can be a pain. But yeah, that campaign sounds like a lost cause.
Can't you steal tech btw? I distinctly remember having the mind controlling ships as Solarian.
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in Project zomboid I decided to go out in a blaze of glory. So I loaded up with ~150 shotgun shells and went forth to rid the world of the zombie plague (a really effin' huge herd was chilling close to my hideout) - I think it went pretty well.. I killed around 300 zeds, I survived, which I didn't really think I would.. and I'm now tending to my wounds.. of course I'm probably infected so I'll have to deal with that later.
(the transparant ones behind my character are hallucinations - I accidentally left the game running - so my character went a little mad from not eating in 3 days)