FTL: scraphoarder 3721/9385, Flagship and run stats
2Sector 2 of the run, uncut, in-game sounds and music. This is my best Hardmode AE scraphoarder run, being a victory with 9385 score and 3721 scrap hoarded. Not pauseless: upon careful before-fight consideration, i decided i stand no chance trying this fight pauseless way.
To complete the description of the previous (sector 8) video: so Ion Charger was small, but apparently very needed edge for this Flagship fight, as i completed it with just a few hull points left. Interestingly, however, that i made the opposite decision when i had the same choice - whether to sell Ion Charger or not, - in Crystal sector store.
Still, the game dropped me another Ion Charger, and also gave me one tough fight in sector 8, when i took massive damage. Those events, and more careful consideration of what i'd face during stage 3 of the Flagship fight based on ship's setup at hand, were the reasons to change that particular choice.
All in all, this run was both very lucky, but yet also "it can be even more luck" kind of a scraphoarding run. Getting scrap arms relatively late (sectors 3, 5 and 7+/crystal), multiple "empty" beacons in some sectors (3rd and crystal, iirc), avoidable repair costs (caused by mistakes easily avoidable if not going pauseless), 1 less than "could be possible" non-rebel-taken beacons visited in sector 8, etc. Based on this, i am sure ~4k scraphoarding score is possible, but obtaining it may require quite many runs well done, to get required amount of luck.