Space station

Space stations are the hubs of life and trade in .

Stations are associated with factions so you could be prevented to dock based on your law/outlaw alignment.

Once you dock on any station:


 * the game saves your progress automatically
 * you deliver automatically all the goods from delivery missions addressed to that station
 * you refill automatically some fuel for inter-system jumps
 * you can repair your ships and refill your missiles (if the station has the equipment bay)
 * you can exchange your ship with an other paying or receiving the difference in credits (if the station has the ship dealer)
 * you can trade commodities, selling or buying (if the station has the commodities market or the black market)
 * you can acquire more side missions for your business (if the station has the mission board)
 * you can acquire more specialized side missions from the Merchants' Guild and the Mercenaries' Guild (if the station hosts their respective representative offices)
 * you can enter the bar to meet characters, play minigames, chat with the bartender (if the station has the bar service)

Services hosted
They can change from station to station:


 * equipment bay: to buy/sell weapons, defense equipment and components for your ship; to repair your ship and refill your missiles
 * ship dealer: to exchange your ship with an other paying or receiving the difference in credits
 * commodities market (or black market in outlaw systems for illegal commodities): to sell/buys the goods you have collected
 * mission board: to acquire/dismiss missions
 * bar: to meet characters, play minigames, acquire valuable info from the bartender
 * Merchants' Guild: to acquire specialized missions for merchant business
 * Mercenaries' Guild: to acquire specialized missions for mercenaries business (be careful here, the threat level is differently indicated and these missions are all hard or very hard in practice)

Stations for sale
There is one station that is for sale and can be bought and also can be developed to add services to produce an income: it's Bountiful Vista station in the Eureka system. It's suggested to bargain on the price ;-)

Stations with free components
In some stations you can win free components for your ship (that you can use or sell for credits) through the minigames in their bar: