Tagged spoiler just in case, not sure how spoiler-y this is though.

I’ve seen some people on here upset that they can’t complete missions that require scrapping a ship for the autophage because their ship roster is full, and they (understandably) don’t want to sacrifice any of their ships.

This won’t help Switch players, or players that don’t have access to multiplayer (e.g., playing on PS but not subbed to Plus), but everyone else, this might help.

The key is that you don’t have to actually scrap a ship. You just need to have the required value’s worth of ship scrap items, such as starship AI valves or compressed indium scraps and the like, in your inventory.

You can even do multiple missions with the amount of stuff you get from one scrapped ship.

So if your roster is full and you have a friend willing to help, have them scrap a ship and give you the junk. Or hang around in the anomaly until someone starts handing out AI valves or something. Then just go turn in at the autophage who gave you the mission.

To be clear, I don’t know if this is INTENDED behavior, so there might be a future patch that reworks how the missions operate. But until then, this is an option.