Death & Risk
What drops where, the loot sack, enhancement loss and revives.
Where you die matters
In your own sectors 1 and 2 you keep everything. Anywhere else, everything in your inventory that is not equipped or bound drops, ore included. With negative honor there is no safe sector.
What drops is packed into a single sack floating where you died, lootable by anyone for 10 minutes. Friends can guard it. Enemies can empty it.
- Gold shop items, bound items and equipped ship equipment never drop.
- Sell or store your loot at base before heading out again.
Blessings
A Blessing protects your inventory when you die, no matter what killed you or where. It has four levels: Lv 1 saves 50% of every item and stack, Lv 2 75%, Lv 3 95% and Lv 4 everything. Gold Blessings, like the 30-day one, are Lv 4 from the start, and the 30-day one is the only Blessing you can sell on the marketplace.
To level up a credit Blessing, use another of the same kind while it runs: several one-use Blessings at once, or another 12h on top of a 12h, which also restarts its clock. Using a different kind replaces the one you have, and the old one is lost.
- Red and black skulls switch off any Blessing, running or not. Its clock keeps ticking.
Enhanced items and death
An enhanced item that drops on death has a real chance to lose one enhancement level on the way down. Deep space taxes the careless twice: once in loot, once in progress.
Other ways to die
Radiation at the map edge kills the idle. Mines and player ambushes kill the distracted. The rules above apply the same way no matter what killed you.
Respawning
There is no reviving on the spot. Ever. When you die you choose where to wake up: your nearest faction base (2% of your hull's price in credits) or, only inside your own faction's sectors, the nearest portal (7%).
In enemy space, MEV-4 and MEV-5 the only option is base. Your sack sits where you fell for 10 minutes, and the run back is part of the price. Value Pack owners skip the credit cost, not the distance.
- Broke? The base respawn is free if you truly cannot pay. Nobody stays dead over credits.