π οΈ The Makers of the Galaxy Every ship you have ever flown, every shield that has saved your hull, every cannon that ended a fight before it cost you anything, somebody built that. This update is a tribute to those people. We have just dropped twenty brand new characters into the galaxy, a whole community […]
Category: NPC Missions
Patch Notes β June 27, 2026
π New Combat NPC’s A new kind of work has opened up across the galaxy: bounty hunting. Ten contractors have set up Missions from the safe core out to the lawless frontier, and every one of them is looking for a captain willing to run down a named pirate captain and the crew at their […]
Patch Notes β June 25, 2026
π New Feature A new line of work has opened up across the mid and outer systems: Planetary Surveys. Twenty Planetary Surveyors β geologists, cartographers and field-hands who have walked more dead worlds than they can count β have set up desks on promenades from the frontier inward, and they will pay you to chart […]
Patch Notes β June 23, 2026
π New Feature A new kind of work has opened up across the galaxy: Derelict Surveys. Forty Wreck Cartographers β weathered salvage surveyors with a story or two to tell β have set up shop on promenades from the high-law core out to the lawless frontier, and they’ll pay you to chart the dead ships […]
Patch Notes β June 22, 2026
βοΈ Balance Change We’ve completed a full balancing pass across every craftable piece of ship equipment, bringing each item’s build cost into line with its market value. Two things changed. First, the high-end power reactors β from the Dark Matter Injector up to the mighty Apex Infinity Reactor β were previously worth far less than […]
NPC Type 3
NPC – Materials Engineer
Forges space currently has Five Types of NPC. NPC stands for non-player character. Lets look at theΒ ‘Materials Engineer’. Below, I have opened the Information Centre and gone to the NPC’s tab.Β You can see the Spanner Icon next to these NPC’s and the Type set as Materials Engineer. You can use the search bar […]
NPC – Combat Mission
Forges space currently has Five Types of NPC. NPC stands for non-player character. The first Type of these is the ‘Combat Recruiter’. Below, I have opened the Information Centre and gone to the NPC’s tab.Β You can see the Combat Icon next to these NPC’s and the Type set as Combat Recruiter. You can use […]