Changes: Space Station

Revision as of 07:31, 17 February 2020

The subject of this article is from the Synthesis update.
The information from this article is is up-to-date as of 18 February, 2020.

NmsStation Space Station Orb — Globular space station (Atlas Rises)

Space station is an orbiting platform found in most star systems.

Summary

Space station is a large alien spaceport that can be docked with a starship and serve as trading centre, mission hub, and a means to travel to habitable bases.

It can be found in star systems throughout the game, except in uncharted ones, and damaged in abandoned ones. The exterior appearance of a space station can vary quite a bit.

Details

Visiting a space station provides the opportunity to buy a new starship, purchase or sell resources and buy blueprints, talk to or hire NPC characters, and obtain missions.

Docking at a space station involves flying into the station tractor beam, a blue shaft of light coming out of the space station opening. This will automatically pull the ship inward and through a corridor that can vary in length before landing it on one of the eight landing pads. Landing will set a players SWL (Space Wanted Level) to zero, making them useful to escape sentinel starships)

There are two ramps in the back of the space station each leading to an open marketplace with multiple beings.

When leaving the space station the Pulse Engine will not work until the player's starship a safe distance away. Each space station has a randomly generated length of the hallway. Shorter hallways will have more traders landing.

Features

The following features can be found in a space station:

Appearance Modifier
Starship Outfitting Terminal (as of Synthesis)
Base Teleport Module
Galactic Trade Terminals
Technology Merchants for exosuit, exocraft, starship and Multi-tool upgrades
A guild representative and a faction representative who can hand out missions

Special

NmsSpaceSation Spaceview — Atlas Interface

There are special space stations that show up as a spacial anomaly, they appear in addition to the regular one.

Atlas Interface: Will open up Alien Anomalies, you'll need to find a monolith that will change your Atlas's guidance co-ordinates to an Atlas Interface.
- This space station has a long walkway to an altar where you can talk with the atlas; some Atlas Interfaces will have two Warp Cells at the foot of the altar. You can also learn some new alien words by walking around the station onto the glowing dots.

Space Anomaly: this space station includes the NPCs named Polo, Nada and Quicksilver Synthesis Companion, along with many others. They all speak the player's language rather than that of their race.
- Polo will give the player bonuses if they have reached certain progress on their in-game achievements and can be talked to afterward using 20 Carbon to buy a blueprint for a choice of ship, suit, or Multi-tool.
- Nada will ask you where you want to go and you can respond:
  - Put you on the Atlas path, guide to an atlas interface,
  - Provide tech blueprints to aid you on your journey.
  - Shortcut to the centre: where they will give the player coordinates to a nearby Black Hole that connects to a location closer to the Galaxy Centre.
- Quicksilver Synthesis Companion is involved in the Community Research and offers various items in exchange for Quicksilver
- The station also offers research for most researchable blueprints, it’s own mission station and many other features (see Features section above).

Abandoned station

NsmSpaceStation Abandoned — Abandoned station

Abandoned station can be found in abandoned systems. This station can be identified from the outside by having pieces of metal broken and floating in space, and having a red tractor beam instead of a blue one. Inside, it has goo similar to Abandoned Buildings and devoid of any life.

In contrast to a normal space station with its open marketplace architecture, abandoned station features the architecture and the layout of space station prior to the NEXT update, i.e. two ramps leading to one room with an attached room each. The attached room requires an AtlasPass v3 key and seems to be without damage.

Buying / Trading / Conversation

See: NPC conversation

One of the many things you can do in space stations is trade with the NPC characters inside. You can trade items for units or buy items, ships, etc. from them. These transactions can be carried out in person, or electronically using a trade terminal. Although you can find resources and items on planets, sometimes you will only be able to buy them on a space station using units. Space stations with smaller runways will have more traders than ones with longer runways.

Blueprints may be purchased from the vendor on the right side of the station, in exchange for Nanite Clusters. The types of blueprints offered depend on the species that controls the system.

Words can be learned via encounters with alien lifeforms. Making friendly requests while in a space station may result in learning new words permanently.

Attacking

While you can attack a station, it cannot actually be destroyed. If attacked long enough, eventually Sentinel starships will attack you (SWL = 4)

As an integral part of the game, it will always remain in orbit around its host star system.

Name generation

The name of space station is procedurally generated by combining the name of the star system (∗ marks its location) in which the space station is located, and one of the following suffixes.

∗ Station
∗ Orbital
∗ Station
∗ Station Alpha
∗ Station Beta
∗ Station Omega
∗ Cycler
∗ Rendezvous
∗ Hub
∗ Terminus
∗ Station Sigma
∗ Junction
∗ Station Tau
∗ Exchange
∗ Prime
∗ Station Minor
∗ Station Major
∗ Platform
∗ Sphere
∗ Stellar Observer

Additional information

The name generation and the sequence are extracted from the 1.77 version of NMS_UPDATE3_ENGLISH.MBIN game file.

While inside a Space Station:

Pre-release information indicated that there would be five classes of space stations in No Man's Sky; the actual number is unknown. Each space station is marked with a set of symbols somewhere on the outside walls.
You do not suffer fall damage
You cannot draw your Multi-tool (you can on the PS4 VR, but cannot fire any weapon or beam.)
There is no drain on your Life Support
Upon entering, your Sentinel wanted level is reset to zero.
Entering will stop any pirates from pursuing you.

Gallery

Icosahedronal space station
Globular space station
(pic: mindofmalice)
Arrowhead space station
(pic: mindofmalice)
Pyramid space station
(pic: mindofmalice)
Pyramid-with-extension space station
(pic: mindofmalice)
Space Station 17
Re-Dhah system
(pre-release)
Space Station Inside - 8 landing pads
Abandoned Station in the AzCT Nuyama System

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 In contrast to a normal space station with its open marketplace architecture, abandoned station features the architecture and the layout of space station prior to the [[NEXT]] update, i.e. two ramps leading to one room with an attached room each. The attached room requires an [[AtlasPass v3]] key and seems to be without damage.
-==Buying and trading==
+==Buying / Trading / Conversation==
 {{See|NPC conversation}}
 One of the many things you can do in space stations is trade with the NPC characters inside. You can trade items for [[units]] or buy items, ships, etc. from them. These transactions can be carried out in person, or electronically using a trade terminal. Although you can find resources and items on [[planet]]s, sometimes you will only be able to buy them on a space station using units. Space stations with smaller runways will have more traders than ones with longer runways.
 Blueprints may be purchased from the vendor on the right side of the station, in exchange for [[Nanite Cluster]]s. The types of blueprints offered depend on the species that controls the system.
+Words can be learned via encounters with alien lifeforms. Making friendly requests while in a space station may result in learning new words permanently.
 ==Attacking==