i lost my starship and I need help desperately.

lemme rewind a bit started playing the game a couple of weeks back. I finally made a hyperdrive and went to another star system. i found a distress signal to a nearby planet, which turned out to be part of the main mission. i landed on this planet and went after the signal. found the broken ship and base of someone called Artemis. got the blueprints for advanced mining laser and had to go to space station for wiring loom. I’d added Artemis’ starship to my collection and when i turned to go to my starship, the HUD showed the new starship as ‘my’ starship. it won’t show where my actual starship is and now I’m left with this hunk of junk.

this thing has absolutely nothing in working order, you have to repair a lot of stuff, and some of it requires: a wiring loom. anyway, I tried to summon my ship but it says “you need 25% fuel in launch thrusters to summon. you have 100%”. wtf. I’d checked the launch thrusters before embarking towards the signal, and it had 16% in launch thrusters. I mistakenly assumed that would be enough and went on my merry way.

now how do i get out of this. the only way i see is to restore a previous save, but that would set me back quite a bit. does anyone know any other way?

1st – Does anyone actually fly an Explorer? Is there a reason to flying an Explorer? I can see the merit to flying a Hauler, when you’re doing a trade route. You can pack a whole lot more commodities into its hull, making for greater profit. And, obviously, the Fighter lets you kill things faster.

As I understand it, the Exotics and Solars are basically improved Fighters, but are harder to find. And I presume Sentinel ships are similarly so. So, I can see good reason to fly a Fighter (or Fighter “variant”) frequently, given how often space battles happen.

But, is there a real benefit to using an Explorer? I get that they have a bonus to the distance they can warp, but… is that actually worth while? With a few mods, any other ship seems to get a pretty respectable distance, too. If I warp into a system and suddenly find myself in a battle that I want to take part in, can my Explorer still compete (assuming I’ve got adequate weapons and mods installed) or am I forced to find a space station, teleport home, swap ships, and then teleport back if I want to fight something… which, obviously, likely means the fight is over when I get back.

Or is the only purpose to flying an Explorer skipping systems and covering extensive distances quickly i.e. warp to furthest system, arriving, then immediately repeating the process x number of times, without stopping. What about the Freighter? I feel like a ship that size should have a hefty distance it can travel, but I’ve never fiddled with them much so I don’t know the extent of their warping capabilities.

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2nd – Is there ANY other, more efficient way of farming Di-Hydrogen and/or Tritium? Or is manually grinding it for an hour the only method? Yes, I’m aware Di-Hydrogen can be crafted into Jelly and then crafted back into DH for a profit, but, considering the time it takes to do so, for the amount gained, I see grinding it a far more efficient method. Is there no collector that can be used to farm these two vital resources?