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?

Still trying to remain unspoiled and just, y’know… Be curious.

So I learned 3 new things just now while I was flying around my freighter and my new frigate buddies. First new thing I learned was you can land on the frigates! How cool is that?! I wandered around a bit and my HUD said “frigate repair.” So I’m guessing, there’s an event that means I need to come repair one of my frigate buddies at some point. There were numerous panels that kinda looked like it would. Alternatively, maybe if I get my frigate buddies into a fight and we win, I’ll have to come fix them up afterwards? I dunno.

Second new thing, was that gravity from a planet we’re “orbiting” will pull you down even if you see whether you can jetpack across space to get from your frigate buddy to your freighter accidentally jump off. Which is a neat little effect I guess. Though, it makes me wonder what would happen if I were to do that in the middle of space, no where near a planet.

Third new thing is that once you get a little ways away from a large ship, your life-support gets drained really fast. Which I wasn’t really expecting! Luckily I had a stash of Life Support Gels and enough carbon and dihydrogen to make more when those ran out that I was able to keep myself alive as I fell onto the planet. I’m just gonna go out on a limb and assume my Exo-suit’s thermal mitigation is, somehow, powerful enough to deal with re-entry friction.

So yeah, that’s 3 new things I learned.