Player Stations
Build your own mining platform in a belt. It costs Alloy Plate and credits, and you get one per system.
You can build your own station in an asteroid belt and let it work the rocks while you fly on.
Staking a claim
Find a system with a belt and build there. A claim costs Alloy Plate out of your hold plus a credit fee. The platform anchors into an open slot near the belt. If the belt is crowded and nothing clears the other stations’ dock zones, you have to wait until there’s room.
You get one station per system, so pick where it counts.
What it is
The station flies your flag. Fit it with guns and they fire on anyone hostile to you, the same as your own standings decide. It sits out in the belt where the ore is.
One catch: a station you build now is gone when you reload. Saving your world comes later. For this run, it’s yours.