So I pretty much had stopped playing for about a year, after trying out Star Citizen. Missed a few expeditions and a few major upgrades, and returned when Endurance was released. There was a lot of catching up to do.

One of things I decided to do was to get some new ships. Despite the max being increased from 6 to 9 ships, I still wanted to keep the roster clean and decided I was going to switch my explorer to one with a longer range. But that Explorer that I did have served me so well for so long, that I felt bad about just scrapping it. So I decided not to scrap it; I'll simply trade it for another ship, and let the pilot fly off into the sunset where my old explorer would continue to live on somewhere in the galaxy. I wasn't even going to strip out the components; I would leave all the weapons and all the hyperdrive mods and everything, and leave the ship intact.

Then, I had another idea.

So I dismissed one of my squadron pilots and started looking for a new pilot who I thought would be worthy to fly my Explorer. Found one, traded ships with them, and then recruited them to my squadron. So now my Explorer lives on in my fleet as a squadron member!

I might do this with the Golden Vector. Although the Golden Vector is special because it's one of the few ships that doesn't have a Photon Cannon built in.