Well, actualy, that wont work. The asteroids have a <flag?> that makes explosions from weapons hitting them non-existant. Firing anything explosive such as a space bomb over an asteriod will not kill you, in order to kill hector, you must drop a bomb over another ship while he is passin gover it. This will damage your ship, most likely kill the other ship, and definatly kill hector.
P.S. This is a fun bug I found about 3 years ago: Make a cruise missle type weapon, like the graphic of a LF with red fins or something.
Give it torpedoe homing (could be missle if this doesnt work right), and give it a life of 32767, the numnerical MAX. Also make it hurt about... 8000 mass and 8000 sheild. Give it a good sized blast radius, and make it relatively slow, about 3/4 the speed of a heavy rocket.
Go to a system with no asteroids, and wait for a ship to start going into hyperspace. Fire as soon as it gets out of the planetary hyper-bubble
If done correctly, the missle will not reach its target. Now follow the missle with your ship. After a while, the missle will go after a random ship and kill it. I find this quite funny. (BTW, Try to do this with only 1 ship in the system)
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