What type of science will we be able to perform in the game aside from ship optimization?Will we be able to perform analyses on the artifacts or items that we find to gather more information about them?Will there be a way for us to perform tests on new, interesting forms of life that we find throughout the 'verse? Thanks!asked by Furuta

Well we actually have an exploration kind of science ship, so we'll definitely be able to do ship optimization, over clocking, all the rest of the stuff.I think there'll be some level of explorer, artifact hunting/searching stuff which we haven't fully fleshed out yet, but we've got this whole salvage and exploration mechanic, we've got certain ships specifically for it, we're gonna have some sort of space hulks and some ancient ruins, and space wrecks from long ago space civilizations.So there'll be some cool stuff that you'll be able to get some equipment and you'll be able to take that and maybe take it somewhere else and essentially get it built into some special weapon or special item that will give you some abilities or powers that you may not have with the standard off-the-shelf stuff, so I think there'll be that level of stuff.I don't know exactly the mechanics of it 'cause we're still at early stages of working it out, but we definitely want to have that sort of varied feeling, so there's a whole profession where you could just go exploring and looking for artifacts and maybe occasionally there'll be one or two of them that'll be useful and they'll be used for something else or at least you could sell them. So there will be some level of analysis, we'll see. As far as lifeforms go, I don't know, there's the... The fiction in our world is that finding or interacting with new lifeforms is kind of regulated, so you're not really going to be able to discover them.We're gonna have a fun commercial up and coming, not the Freelancer one, but the one after it which kind of plays with this idea, but I don't know so much about really discovering new lifeforms.Although we have discussed that, when we introduce one or two of the new alien races that we're discussing, we would actually let a player make the first encounter. We'll build it all up, but we won't announce it. We would open up an area of space, and one of the first players that would discover that jump point and go through it would actually encounter this alien race for the first time.But that's not something that will be possible for all the players, it would just be possible for one player, or if we have a second one, another player, and that wouldn't be very frequent. But that would be super cool were you actually the person who made the encounter, actually a real player and he gets immortalized in the Galactipedia and in our in-fiction news casts.