Alien Ship Random Encounters

[AHDB]

The concept of modding in alien Ai has come up before, but I think this would actually be unnecessary. Would it be possible instead to implement scripts for random encounters with alien ships, similar to asteroids? I know nothing about modding KSP, but it seems like it would be fairly straightforward to simulate the presence of a hostile and/or friendly AI with random scripted encounters and different effects on your Kerbals and ships.

Say for example on your first successful Mun landing an alien ship is spawned in a low fly-by of your landing site, with an impossibly fast escape trajectory. Later, after a random number of landings or after 3 planets, whichever comes first, there is a second fly-by that drops off a small probe lander that impacts near your landing site, and carries a beacon/artifact that you can pick up using KAS. The artifact could have a variety of effects, such as playing an alien gibberish soundbite, being reclaimable for science or funds, or attracting hostile/friendly encounters, or all of the above.

Maybe hostile aliens would teleport and abduct your kerbals during EVA while on a fly-by or damage your ship if you got too close.

What do you think? Feasible? Worth the effort?

If not, do you have any good links or tutorials on modding KSP?

[1of6Billion]

There has not much been going on in the Easter Egg department. I would love to see some interactive stuff popping up once in a while. Aliens or other phenomena, all OK for me.

[Javster]

I think rescue contracts should feature spacecraft as well as kerbals.

[Starwhip]

There has not much been going on in the Easter Egg department. I would love to see some interactive stuff popping up once in a while. Aliens or other phenomena, all OK for me.

*COUGH*Blizzy*COUGH*

[AHDB]

I'd love to be able to interact with these easter eggs though, give them a purpose. Maybe capturing an alien probe would net you a bit of antimatter for use with KSPI. Or an OP engine you could weld onto an existing ship.

[SpaceLaunchSystem]

This would be so awesome!