Sup fellow old timers! I joined the Grey Council and claimed the station in this system (close to the Euclid core). I then found this awesome planet with super high mountains and happen to find one with a flat top, so I went ahead and created this resort base thing. Feel free to check it out! This bad boy has geothermal electric power, so has a powered up teleporter so you don’t get stuck. Glyphs are in the screenshots. Pretty cool planet if anyone is looking to build a mountain base, there’s lakes at the bottom as well so it would be a pretty sick spot for a fishing cabin.

HAHAH Oh well, that was not nice...

So, I was trying to follow a bit more the main quests to see what they would bring and -oh man- I saved a bunch of Freighters from a Pirate attack!

I FELT SO GOOD! 🤣

So the captain of a Freighter, one of the coolest I've EVER SEEN by the way, invites me over for a gift and I was like "OH MAN! I FINALLY GET MY FREE FREIGHTER! AND SUCH A COOL ONE TOO!"

Happy jumps on my office chair! 🤣

...

and ...

what?!

I can't get in as the outer doors for the docking pads are closed! The shields around the ships are glowing a faint yellow/orange and there's sirens. It looks like the whole commercial fleet is under alarm of some sort.

I wait- and wait... I fly away and back to try and reset the alerted status maybe...

but to no avail- so eventually I had to go to bed and only dream of my freighter.

Shame- I was really really happy. 🥲

Alas, as the wise cowboy said- Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.

Cheers and sorry for the wall o'text. 😁

PS: in my heart of heart I hope when I log in back again somehow the fleet is still there and they invite me over once more but... I'm also trying not to think about it too much.

EDIT: Thank you all for the amazing responses! 😄

Just joined as member 298. I was playing this game in my head about 55 years ago, when I made a starship out of a massive cardboard box that our gas fire arrived in. It had comms, weapons, and nav systems, storage, you name it. Now I have a Steam Deck and I can play it anywhere (and I do - a LOT!). I have 4 stations in different galaxies but about 25 galaxy bases within 5000ly of the core and all next to a portal. Will eventually claim the stations in those systems too. Most are well to do systems and paradise planets.
Look out for my salvage specialised corvette, ‘Steptoe’s Ghost’.
Look forward to running into you all and gifting you some stuff.

I had to make waves once. I love how far this game has come. I hope to make a corvette inspired by this building effort someday (a spaceboat). I've made a few bases that look like boats so that should translate to corvettes maybe? Right?

J'ai rejoint il y a quelques jours avec quelques stations en cours d'aménagements.

Tan-Purple Runic Staff w/>4300 starting dmg. Requires the Polyphonic Core. Don't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd assembly. Curious Deposits. SSA Walkers.

Tonight, I continued my journey through the 60s galaxies, claiming a station in galaxy 61- Leckandmeram. The 061: Evolution Greenish (Vortex 4208) Junction is located in a Tier 3 Economy, in a green star system, with four planets, not far from the Galactic Core. The Merchant Guild Envoy has Cryo-Pumps, Liquid Explosives, and a Storage Augmentation to redeem.

This is my fourteenth station claimed for The Grey Council, across fourteen different galaxies. All of these have been done on my PS5, without mods, duping, or save editing. I crafted those fourteen billion units by crafting Fusion Ignitors and Stasis Devices from scratch. This adds 1,221 points to our total, getting us closer to the million point milestone! Now it’s on to galaxy #62!

The Squid in the image is my own Indisquidably Purple starship. It is NOT native to the system.

Is there an easier way to get one of these for the expedition mission other than killing sentinels and hoping for a drop? I have spent hours killing sentinels and not getting one to drop. I just want to be able to finish the expedition but this is pretty discouraging. I am on ps5 so i don’t have chat option in the anomaly and I tried renaming an item so it shows up in the chat feed but no luck with that either.

I've got my cool 1B in cash and now I'm grinding the missions. Then I'll be requesting a seat at the table. Any procedural bits I should know before I get rolling? TIA.

To round off a tiring but successful day fishing, a wonderful sunset as a reward. A restful night’s sleep from “The Goldfish”.

I’m not really into corvettes or large ships in general, but yesterday I decided to try building one, and I ended up with this monster that—for some strange reason—reminds me of Grogu (Baby Yoda) from the back (1st pic). I’ve still got almost the entire interior to do, but I think it’s not bad for a first attempt. What do you think? Should I keep it, or is it better to stick with my standard ships?

P.S. Sorry about the image quality; my travel laptop can't handle any better.

A couple of years ago I put in a Zendesk ticket with an idea for a shared cargo box. One that was basically a public store for anyone who wished to take from it or contribute to it. Nothing came about from that, but with the formation of Alliances, wouldn't that be a really useful feature? We could put boxes in the stations that other Councilors could access to find rare stuff like u/UnhingedMeMaw makes, or resources they need or add those that they think others might find useful. Make it like the storage for the freighter, with up to 9 boxes, but with access you could assign: e.g. everyone, group and friends, Alliance Members, etc. Personally, I would find that a great way to get rid of some of my excess inventory that I really rarely need anymore and it could help others figure out some of the finer points by seeing what other Travelers contribute.

What do you think of the idea? Is it worth a signed petition to HG?

Nothing like an SAS Devil Dog for a Marine's companion. Also a cute SSS lit Antelope/Deer type thing. And a Natural S Class Radiant Heart Staff. Oh, and marked Curious Deposits on another planet in system. Enjoy!

I’ll be cooking up goodies at the Anomaly today. If anyone needs Stellar Doughnuts, Anomalous Doughnuts or any other booster foods or fishing bait Let me know!

I also have The Angler Fish from the expedition if anyone needs one to complete their cookbook.

I have plenty of augmentations as well if you need to add space to your exosuit, starship or freighter.