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I’ll document the ensuing hilarity in an upcoming post. So my remaining option would be to once again turn to the Elite Dangerous community for help. I could log out of the Odyssey version of Elite Dangerous and log into Horizons, which I believe would automagically force me out of the station and into my last ship, but this felt defeatist and an option which will be unavailable come the Great Reunification later this year. There were only two solutions left open to me. I’d gone from an ex-con going rogue in an unsuspecting system to Tom Hanks in The Terminal. Realising that my gameplay was now reduced to exploring the identikit social zones of two outposts with variety provided by the occasional taxi ride was disappointing and a game experience opportunity missed. This explained why there were only two viable Apex destinations in the system – there were no planetary settlements. Alas, a quick check on the station terminal revealed that there were no missions available. I consoled myself with the thought that at least I had one system I could explore and do on-foot missions in. I suddenly felt very small, and the galaxy very large and far away. Unlike the major Coriolis and Orbis starports, minor Outposts do not have an Inter Astra ship vendor which is required for on-foot access to shipyard facilities including ship transfers. On arrival at The Prospect, one of two orbital outposts in the system, I quickly discovered the flaw in my plan. This turned out to be a mistake, but one that could so very nearly have led to an incredible unscripted gameplay experience. To clear my record, I had to face the brutal justice system and turn myself in, which I did from one of the many convenient terminals scattered around the concourse. I wasn’t quite ready to go rogue at this point, largely due to the fact that I would be unable to use any of the station services and there were no alternatives for hundreds of light-years. It was a colourful and engaging turn of events which put me at an ethical crossroads should I embrace my new shady status or come clean?
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On my return to New Growth station, as expected my inadvertently acquired criminal status meant that I couldn’t access many of the services. I destroyed them, but my delay in the trespass zone resulted in a price being put on my head. On investigation, I triggered a trespass warning and a number of ‘wanted’ skimmers associated with the controlling system faction, Seven Stages Movement, deployed and became aggressive. I soon stumbled across a point of interest on one of the local planetary bodies. I began my frontier experience by setting about the business of exploring the local planetary bodies and doing a bit of opportunistic scavenging. In the remote Pencil Sector region, human settlements are rare (a fact that I will later be frustrated by) and my chosen destination, New Growth station in Pencil Sector EL-Y d5, was the only major port in the only populated system for 200 light-years.