✨ New Element
🏆 Captain’s Honours
There is a new gold icon on your bottom bar, Captains, sitting between the Systems Lexicon and the Galactic Exchange. Click it to open the Orrery, a record of what you have achieved across your whole career, laid out as a ring of medallions around your own completion score.
Eighteen Honours
There are eighteen honours to earn, three in each of Combat, Mining, Industry, Trade, Missions and Exploration. Each one counts something you already do, from pirates destroyed and ore cut by hand to cargo delivered, fuel burnt jumping and planetary zones surveyed. Click any medallion to see what it counts, how far along you are and where the next goal sits.
Four Tiers Each
Every honour has a Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum tier, and the ring around its medallion fills as you climb. Bronze will come to most captains with steady play, but Platinum is meant to take years, and somebody out there will be the first in the galaxy to hold one. When you earn a tier, a quiet line in your Comms tells you so, and that tier is yours for good.
The Galaxy Board
Each honour also shows how the whole galaxy is doing: the total across every captain, where you rank, how many active captains hold it and who reached a tier most recently. Our testers have been earning honours on the test server for the last few days, so you may spot a familiar name or two on the board already.
Four Mysteries
Look into the corners of the Orrery and you will find four grey medallions marked with a question mark. Those are honours still to come, and what they are, you will find out in time.
Counting starts today, so every pirate, every haul and every jump from here on goes toward your honours. Happy hunting, Captains.
🔧 Bug Fix
📡 Two Encounters Answer Again
Two of the random encounters you meet in space had a fault in one of their replies. Paying the Toll Collector, or trying to haggle with the Shakedown crew, could end in an error instead of an outcome. Both now play out as they should, and the Shakedown leader still only halves the rate when your nerve impresses him.
🏴☠️ Fallen Bases Fade Away Again
A pirate base that has been knocked down but not stripped bare is meant to rot away within a day, freeing its spot for a new base to move in. That clock had stopped, so a handful of fallen bases have been sitting in their systems for weeks with salvage still aboard. It runs again now. Any fallen base you still want to strip, get to it within a day of finding it before the scavengers of time take the rest.