Can I say how much I love that!
and the ships come in
“dozens of procedurally-generated variations.”
“Experience rare encounters with mysterious space objects and strange new lifeforms while pulsing through a star system.”
“NPCs now have the potential to hail your communicator in space.
These alien lifeforms often stock specialty items for sale – but some may need assistance, or approach with more questionable intentions…”
When they appeared, I got a message saying something like “Object located - drop from jump to examine”, which apparently meant “slow your ship down”. And I did slow down, and I tried to examine the objects, but I couldn’t do anything with them.
I was in the middle of egg tasks at the time. Once the egg tasks were finished, I went back to have another try, - but the objects had gone.
Got the message. It was an abandoned freighter. But as I got close, it vanished just like fleets were doing previously.
Also, there is a strange visible “warble” in the space station entrances
I’ve now been stopped twice in space by Korvax piots wanting me to repair their ships (it’s a Korvax system). Both times they’ve given me a small reward (handful of nanites) for helping.
I took off from my starter planet, flew towards another planet, and met the living ship, got the plot started, then took off again towards the same planet and got stopped by that thing lol