So I was fighting sentinels, doing that new infamous armourer mission.
I was jetpacking to my ship with no shields while a walker tried to kill me. It didn’t. I made it to my ship.
Well, sort of…
See, I thought I was being real slick. Quite the clever clogs, really. Held the button to board my ship as I came hurtling by on my rocketpants. If I could nail this escape they would cheer my return to the space station. They might even give me a cool nickname.
However, the circle did not fill up to activate boarding sequence before I shattered both my shins against the hard rock floor, wooden splinters shooting up as my clogs exploded from impact velocity.
I swear I heard a very bad rendition of Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss played on trombone as it all happened in slow motion, as if the simulation wanted me to endure this embarrassment for as long as I could.
So that was it. First death on my new normal save while I wait for my previous iteration to get patched. Smeared across the surface of a planet, nanometers from my ship (actually some of me may have ended up ON the ship).
Guess I’ll just do the walk of shame back there and get my gear from the gra-…
Wait. What’s this? Why am I at a crashed ship sight!? Why is my ship here? Why did I not lose any of my stuff?
Glitches and hacks be praised! All my gear is intact, inventory check shows I have all my stuff, no grave to visit, no ship to fix.
Then, like that moment in every twilight zone/outer limits episode, I realise the catch.
My ship is forever smoking, forever on fire.
And long story short I literally just wanted to show you my glitched ship that is forever crashed but always flies.