When activating a distress beacon, for whatever reason, is there a chance the Banu or Xi'an will come to your rescue? Or is this strictly for humans?asked by Schwarzkopf

Well we haven't fully decided on that. We don't have a Banu or Xi'an flying around right now. But I would think a distress beacon generally will put a distress out, if you're listening for it, potentially you are someone that wants to earn some money by rescuing people stranded in space or you just want to be a good samaritan, you can pick it up and you'll get an indication of where they are and you can fly to it. It also potentially could be used by less than scrupulous people that may want to, I don't know, do something nefarious if you're especially in unprotected areas. Or potentially someone like the Vanduul, if they're around, or maybe they're listening for beacons and they would come over to see where the beacon is if they are being especially dastardly, which occasionally the Vanduul can be.But it's still something that we're going to flesh out. It's one of the features that we're going to be putting in proper distress beacons system for the future, not the next revision, the next 2.4 which is the next one we'll have out, but not very long after that we will actually have the distress beacon which is a fun ... it's not just going to be about the beacon it will be about you'll be able to give your position to friends or other people that you're flying with so you can coordinate meeting each other or if you are stranded in space someone coming to rescue you. So that's actually part of the system that we have scheduled to be fleshing out to allow you to meet up or find people in the middle of space, which is obviously very big.So there you go. So potentially may make it that if you are in a Banu area, Xi'an area and you've got a distress beacon out, if there is a Banu or Xi'an ship they may come and rescue you if it makes sense for them.