What was the most stupid way you’ve died in Permadeath?

I jumped in my ship in a peaceful planet next to my base (PVP set to off). Realised I had to run into the house (office is in the garage) to do something quick and got distracted so ended up taking 20 mins.

Came back to the home screen. Checked the save file and nada. Worst thing is I’ll never know how it happened.

Luckily it was only a 20hr save.

Yes, I bought this game after the announcement of Starfield. I had no idea a game like this even existed. How sad. I started a few times so far and got totally lost after I left the beginner planet… First time I was killed in like 20 seconds after landing, next time I wound up so far from any planet I had no idea what direction to go… I’m just really confused, aren’t there any kind of markers or tutorials for newbies like me? The game looks awesome, but man… Frustrating to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated…

Experiment 1: I made a new save to do the latest expedition and I wanted to see if I could visit a base created with my previous save. I went to a system discovered by previous me where I had a base next to the portal. The base was not there. It appears that, even though your bases are always there even when you log off, if you switch to a different save they disappear. I did still have credit for discovering the system, though.
Experiment 2: You know how when you find a ship you like and you hang around until another of the same ship lands, it might be a little better or a little worse in terms of number of slots and/or core stats. I wanted to find out if I got the absolute best of a C class and upgraded it to an S, would it be the best possible S class of that ship. I found a solar I liked and found the best possible C class of that ship and flew it to the space station. After upgrading it S, it still a had good number of slots, but only middle-tier core stats. So, no, that didn’t work.

TIL another cool feature of ancient ruins. I had started a survival-mode playthrough and was getting to the very first stages of constructing a base to have a shelter available from the environment. Earlier I’d found an ancient ruin and I decided to drop a base computer right next to it. Long story short, I discovered the entire flat circular area around the ruins was basically treated as a big building by the game. No weather or storm damage! Pretty nice in the early game when I have yet to upgrade the old exosuit! 😄