My hyper drive is maxed and I’ve spent an hour now just warping along the expedition route. WHY?! This literally adds nothing to the expedition other than pointless time sink. Every 3 jumps I check the space station to see if there’s magically a station or base warp at R5 and there never is. ARGH

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.