"It might not be the fanciest outpost, but it does the job."

Inspired by the general design of advert station from the upcoming Trailblazers expansion, but expanded into a full-fledged major trading port. Notable for its capacity to dock 64 large, 64 medium, and 128 small ships, this station is intended to handle significant economic throughput.

I was tempted, albeit briefly, to spend some more time flying around like this, but a single sneeze would have been catastrophic.

...pretty sure this is one of the Pilots Federation District systems, shortly after my most-recent reset.

Being squashed by your own recalled ship ranks pretty high up there, I'd have to say.

I remember being enraptured by Kubrik's film 2001 when I first saw it on television as a child, which led me to Clarke's novel of the same (and others–Clarke is still my favourite SF author). In college, I was introduced to Frontier: Elite II (though it was half a decade past its release) and instantly falling love with this game that let you experience the vastness of space and interact with a civilisation spread among the stars. When Elite: Dangerous was gathering funding via Kickstarter, I was thrilled, and naturally contributed. Here, then, is a game that does what few others have attempted: it merges the awe and wonder of real astronomy with a dynamic, populated game world, and doesn't tie you to a specific activity. More than that, it has the courage to represent full-size planets that, when you wander their surface, convey even more the sense of vastness and subtlety of variation that is found in reality.