I was on an icy extreme weather planet fighting a sentinel pillar. I didnt have a cold weather protection tech and just quickly jamming an ion battery into my hazard protection every 30 seconds or so. It was tedious but I had to fight this pillar for a mission. Eventually an extreme storm rolled in, which was problematic but luckily the last bot, the mech, was almost dead. I took down the mech and headed over to the console.

Standing at the console, I then see WARNING: EXTREME WIND EVENT Huh I get slowly pushed up against the pillar, and am unable to extract myself I blink Then I am flailing in a white void. No ground in sight. Very concerned for my safety, I look up. And realize I am on the edge of space. Then, some random jerk wad in a space ship starts trying to shoot me out of the sky He lands a few laser shots on me and that’s where I begin to panic. Now there really wasn’t much I could do in my panic, and luckily I was calm enough to save my jetpack for when I inevitably returned to the ground. So I watched helplessly as I was buffeted by strong winds and being attacked by spaceships. Eventually, after what felt like an agonizingly long time, I began to see flickering flames of damaged machinery through the fog and saw the ground getting closer. I sparingly used my jetpack to slow and eventually reach the ground relatively unharmed. Immediately, I try to call my starship in, but the ground here was very uneven.

Then, a few seconds after having landed, a new message appears. WARNING: EXTREME ELECTROMAGNETIC EVENT Before I have a chance to process this new warning, the world erupts in lightning. Panic level rises more and I desperately try to get to flatter ground.

Then a direct strike. Completely ahnnilating my shields and leaving me with two health cores. At this point my panic has reached its apex. I began floundering desperately trying to call my ship in, spamming left click and looking everywhere.

I did manage to get my ship called in. I hopped in, and immediately left the planet. Critically wounded, tech broken, but alive. After taking a moment to calm down and make sure the planet I landed on wasn’t a portal to oblivion, I realized: I never finished my mission at the sentinel pillar. Steeling myself for what was to come, I went back, but it was entirely uneventful. Mission complete, I left the planet. Hopefully, never to return.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a clip of this whole ordeal, which I greatly regret. It was truly the craziest chain of events that happened to me.

We’ve all experienced this, you’re in the heat of battle! 20 sentinels are attacking you, you defeat them but a piece of technology in your suit broke. Of course the first thing you would like to do is repair it with readily available materials…. WRONG! The technology, like 90% of the technologies require the un-craftable, dreaded ”wiring loom”. You need to return to a space station and buy them for the hundredth time. Of course, they’re one of the most expensive items in the terminal… and the terminals are the ONLY way to get them.

Why can’t we craft them? Obviously they’re most likely trade-marked by some gigantic space company that refuses to share the blueprints, therefore artificially inflating the products price and its demand. One real life example of this is coca-cola, their recipe is heavily guarded and any competitor that tries to replicate it is slightly off, making the coca-cola a one in a million product, sky-rocketing the demand. Wiring looms are extremely expensive due to this, we can’t make them ourselves. Whoever is behind making them KNOWS this and artificially increases the price, way over the manufacturing cost.