My shortest answer, is that you're basically getting a near AAA title for about 40$. So please take that with a grain of salt. If thats not enough, theres over 20 ships, each one vastly customizeable to tailor it to your wants or needs, and you dont have to throw actual money at the problem to get good. Lately i fly either a Mandalay or a really nice anaconda now.. how do i defend them and my cargo? Oh, mostly some long range railguns. Please come play with us, i really think you might like it.

Where will the new titans come to make berth?

My longest journey to date is as yet unfinished. Before making the leap to pc, I played on console, in a legacy built Krait Mk2. The yonjuuni is what I've got the ship named. My journey? Im on my way to Colonia, come success or failure, typing in SPANSH coordinates on a ps4 controller interface. I've left off at 4000ly away from bubble, staring at a neutron star along the highway. No carrier rides, just adventure.

One of my personal favorites, I was flying in a Krait Mk2 and went onward to jump a few neutron stars to make my route to the Jameson crash site faster. Well, I left the setting for supercruise dethrottle off, and careened right into the bright blue bow tie of fastness and let me tell ya, it's not a fast death going down into the blender. You're essentially helpless and watching while you come to grips with your mistake.

For anyone flying near them, "fly through the hair and keep your chin up" you dont need to get overcharged in one pass. Fly safe commanders!

Hear me out, this sounds a bit too straightforward, but, No Mans Sky. Leaving from Elite you could for example, fall into a black hole and come out as one of your saves in No Man's Sky, or have an event where some of their ships get stranded in our universe and require specific community help to get them back to theirs. The entire human race in Elite Dangerous knows of only one(formerly two) alien species, I can only imagine how they might receive the Gek or the Korvex.