Here we go.

There will be 2 ways to defeat pirate freighters. A bit like how there’s 2 sentinel combat methods. One of them is the current ship-freighter combat. It’s what we currently have now. You get the rewards, maybe a bit more than currently. The second way of defeating the freighter is that you have to board it. You land in the landing bay (which is similar to the standard landing bay, but without the annoying middle platforms!), and the new “pirate defense drones” are trying to kill you, very similar to sentinels. The goal is to disable equipment by reaching parts of the freighter through access hatches and shooting the control panels to break them. This will disable each part of the ship, for example, hyperdrive, fleet control system, anti-ship guns, anti-freighter guns, and finally, the defense drones controller near the heart of the freighter. There will be a time limit, if you don’t destroy the hyperdrive in time, the freighter will warp away and chuck you onto a random planet in a random system. If the civilian freighter is destroyed (by anti-freighter guns or the pirate frigate torpedoes), you will have a short amount of time to escape on your ship. However, if all systems are destroyed, you can reach the bridge of the freighter. There, you will arrest the ship’s captain (just by talking to them), which will be teleported away by sentinels. After that, a dialogue box comes up, saying that the ship is eerily silent, and that you’re alone on it. You are given the option to salvage the freighter for materials and cargo, or, you can take the freighter as your own. Currently, I can’t think of any special buffs that a pirate freighter would have, but it will have some positive buff.

HG will never see this. I have written this for absolutely no effective reason. However, it would be insane if this was in the game. Please give credit if you decide to share this by the way, which probably won’t happen.

P.S. shout-out to the guy who suggested I post this, because I really wouldn’t have if they didn’t say so(I forgot his username btw). I only intended to write this suggestion as a fun comment. So, thanks to them.

Happy exploring, travellers!

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Hello! Wow, that post blew up! I had never imagined that my little journal about my space travels and how they were helping me in life would get so much attention. Writing has always been a challenge for me, despite my love of it, and I am glad that posting my writing here is something that y’all enjoy. To everybody that read or commented on Part 1, thank you so much. Your open ears and your kind words truly mean so much to me, and it has given me a lot of motivation to see this through! (Also, my first silver, ever! Wow – thank you so much!) There’s a lot more that I feel that I could say here, but in the interest of getting to the actual journal part of this post, I’ll just say that I am truly grateful for your support, and I’m incredibly glad that my stories have touched so many people’s lives. Seriously, this community rocks. If you are a new reader, you can find part one here.

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Today, I went adventuring. After a brief nap in my ship, I left to investigate the hills around the crash site. After a few minutes of climbing around and taking in the scenery, a radioactive storm suddenly came up on the horizon. With my hazard protection quickly depleting, I looked around frantically for a means of protection, and my eyes quickly settled upon an opening in a nearby hill. As I walked inside, and my hazard protection began to stabilize, I saw a wide cave extending downward in front of me. I had watched a few guides during my break at work today, and quickly crafted an analysis visor. After some quick scanning, I realized that a lot of the rock formations in the cave were made of cobalt! (And other minerals). Knowing that they were valuable from watching a guide, I decided that tonight, I was going to strike it rich.

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It was challenging, at first, to mine with such intensity. I knew around how much money I wanted to have from mining, but the tedium of the thing soon began to set in. As many of you know, I am playing this game as a way to help overcome my prior addictions, and once the game became all about mindlessly pointing the mining laser, my mind began to wander. I really did want to power through this feeling, both because I knew that getting a lot of money would really make the early game a lot more fun, and also to prove to myself that I could exercise a modicum of self-control. I turned on some Twitch in the background, and that helped a lot. I actually ended up getting distracted by the stream a bit, and lost track of time, so I ended up mining way past my goal. Whoops! I also found some things called “Vortex Cubes” – not sure what they do, but they look like one of them would make a pretty cool lamp.

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After my spelunking had concluded, I decided that it was high time for me to repair my ship. I set out in the direction that the map beacon was indicating, and immediately got distracted by something else. I found a crashed pod on the side of a hill, then from there, I found a tower, waaaay off in the distance. My curiosity was peaked, so I headed out in the direction of the tower, to see what it had to offer. It ended up taking a bit longer to walk there than I had anticipated, but it was really cool to see it grow in the distance. I managed to scale it with the help of my trusty jetpack, and accessed some old logs at the terminal on the top. Unfortunately, it seems that my real-life foreign language skills translate into the game, and I was left staring at letters on the screen. I’ll have to make a note and come back to this later.

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Finally, I jumped down and headed over to the beacon that I had found, scanning creatures and plants along the way, and reading facts about them in the pause menu. Apparently, the tentacled creature from yesterday actually doesn’t have any bones, which makes me wonder how it stands up, Truly, nature is beyond human comprehension. I soon arrived at the little settlement, consisting of two tiny houses, right next to each other. I accessed the terminal in one building to win some money via the stock transfer (is this legal?), and found a hermetic seal in the other one. After repairing my pulse engine, I decided to call it a night, as I have an early morning tomorrow. Thank you so much for reading and sticking around! Hopefully this is as enjoyable for you as it is for me – next time, we’re getting off planet, so help me god. I don’t know if I’ll have time to play tomorrow, since I’m gonna go visit some old friends, but we’ll see. Pics below.

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Spelunking!

Like the companion cube, but slightly more….. trapezoidal.

Caught this dinosaur sleeping in the sand

Apparently, this is a rock? Wild

Waaaay off in the distance is a crashed pod, near the bottom of the valley

The tower, but from really far away

A half marathon, maybe more

This alien technology looks really cool, holy cow

I want one

Saw a freighter on the way back to my ship. I hear that you can fly one?