But will we be able to land on the metallic solid "surfaces" (e.g cores) of stars and gas giants? The high pressure (50-100 million atmospheres at the center of a modest gas giant like Jupiter and even more for stars) would make for interesting environment, as well as a possible (lucrative?) expansion to "exploration" - scanning and recording the pressure and exact composition of the gas giant/star at different depths/altitude, as well as recording the depth/altitude at which the outer gaseous atmosphere transforms into liquid non-metal (and into metallic liquid, solid, etc.) It would also give a civil role for hull upgrades to withstand the immense pressure - I've never needed hull upgrades as mainly a trader and explorer despite grinding over 120 million credits.
There could be even more depth for late stage (especially giant/supergiant) stars, as they have made significant quantities of non-Hydrogen elements through fusion - namely helium, carbon, oxygen, silicon, and iron - in their core due to the tremendous pressure and temperature. This could also become an important job in the lore of ED, looking for old stars that are creating iron from silicon, as it indicates that the star will soon (in stellar terms anyway) go supernova, which would be disastrous for systems dozens of lights years around for some supergiants. For uninhabited areas, it would then become a sort of "no-settle" zone.
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