"A measly 12 thousand bucks for me is much too little..."

[mono]

"...I'm worth a lot more than that!"

At least I think that's what the downed satellite I discovered 10KLy out of the bubble on some tiny backwater planet in an undiscovered system would say.

Why are data point intel packages off downed satellites such a low value when so far away from the bubble? You'd think the superpowers would be grateful that one of their proverbial needles in a haystack has been found.

*shrug*

 

[Drelthar]

Because honestly, FD have no idea what to reward for what, because it more and more seems like they don't actually experience the game from a player perspective anymore.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I have no idea how they are spawning so far out. Theoretically they shouldn't even be any outside inhabited systems... and you'd think they would construct them to be a little less prone to crashing on planets. Also, it would take thousands or millions of years for them to reach some planets in the systems they started in (depending on speed... which leads to the question, how did so many end up losing their stable orbits in such a relatively short period of time?).

Well, i can do what i usually do in relation to such things, and just handwave it away.

Or i can come up with a theory!

Theory time!

So, in the ED galaxy there is an alien race we don't know about yet. We will call them Space Leprechauns! These little imps delight in doing all sorts of crazy stuff to humans to mess with their minds. Like stealing nav beacons and sattelites and dropping them on random planets all over the galaxy.

 

[EvoBeardy]

Theory time!

So, in the ED galaxy there is an alien race we don't know about yet. We will call them Space Leprechauns! These little imps delight in doing all sorts of crazy stuff to humans to mess with their minds. Like stealing nav beacons and sattelites and dropping them on random planets all over the galaxy.

All whom of which are ancestors of the infamous Lord Mark Zuckerberg.

Unfortunately, the hands of time deprived them of the reason they specifically target Satellites and Nav beacons in the first place, nonetheless they continue admirably. Those rascals.