If we get killed but our ship is still in one piece, will it just stay in space until someone steals it or destroys it, or will it despawn after a certain amount of time?asked by Skarnet

So probably if there's a ship just floating out there in space with nobody in it, somebody's going to come along and borrow it. Recover stolen property and forget to return it. But in the long term, we can't just leave a bunch of empty ships floating out there. So we will have to eventually despawn things like that. No, it's not going to be as fast as, say, debris from a fight. But eventually things go away.