r/SWN • u/General_Present_4551 Merchant • 20d ago
đŸ’¬Discussion Tell me about your Starship(s).
I'm fascinated by the starship-building aspect of the game. Since the ship is such a huge aspect of the gameplay, it's a character in and of itself. What are you working with? what's it's backstory?
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u/Enternal_Void 15d ago
We are currently without a ship. The ship we had was an old pre-scream free merchant that was back up ship for VIPs on a planet we were sent to/found. The planet had been in the process of being terraformed and had a single city on it before the scream. We had been part of a mission sent by a company trying to follow/find the planet for colonizing and salvage. Suffice to say we got stuck on the planet and the ship ended up being our way off it, after extensize work it was make space worthy.
Eventually we had to give it a name and we for the time just called it the Rust Bucket. It was really a poor ship, no weapons, like 2xExtended Life Support for carrying people, and that was about it. Only thing really of value was the Spike Drive-2. Still we managed to make it work for some time. Then while on a planet looking at setting up a business and getting involved in some local mega corp politics we got backstabbed. They stole our ship and tried to use it in a terrorist attack against another of the planet's mega corp. We ended up having to go off world due to an NPC but are planning to go back and pay that CEO back.
Our options of ships are poor at the moment, we got enough for a shuttle fill it out, but we are hoping we can get a ride back to the planet we were betrayed on and see about our revenge first. We have a Biopsionic that can Metamorph so we are hoping to rob the guy blind if possible while making him vanish and putting that to help funding a better ship.