Will the "Death of a Spaceman" always be the final destination for our pilots, or will we be able to say "retire" them and perhaps have them populate the universe?Maybe as the Grizzled Old Pilot lurking in the back seat of a bar, the Weathered Mechanic cobbling ships back together in the seedy side of the space port, or the Battlescarred Former Pirate threatening Farmboys and old Jedi in Cantinas?asked by Manic

That's a great idea and a great thought.We were actually just having a design debate earlier today, 'cause we were sort of drilling down on more of the death mechanics in the Persistent Universe, and we were mentioning the fact that it would be kind of cool if towards the end of your character's life, you could essentially retire your character rather than just have them die in the field.We haven't really figured out what that would mean in terms of them getting retired. Whether they would actually exist as a persistent NPC, or they would maybe just exist in your own world view, or not at all, but you would know that they're retired and, I dunno, you would get an email every once in a while saying "Drinking pina coladas on the beach."But this is a great idea, I don't know how easy it would be to work, but I guess you could always have a couple of NPC slots on a planet, and they're open to be populated by ex-player characters now operating as NPCs. That would be kind of cool because you would just basically take over the name and see them in there just going about their daily lives.So good suggestion, we'll think about that, you never know, it could happen.