Uncharted worlds

[Mímir]

Radiation fields that you must go around, asteroid fields that hurt the ship, explosive gas pockets, nebulas with almost no visibility and rare pockets of valuable ore.

^That, I made a suggestion long time ago regarding ores (after having discovered wormhole mining in Eve Online).

I'd love to see a Discovery: Cataclysm - solar storms or some other random sci-fi malarkey smashes half the systems in the game, destroying all bases and tradelanes but leaving behind asteroids with exotic ores, radiation and gasses, and the deeper you venture in, the tougher that environment gets on you; so that you would actually have to use a heavily armored capital ship to survive, but making it extremely profitable to explore, so that players will cooperate (and pirates can steal their loot when they return to "safe" space)

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