It's pretty cool, although the act of hauling the scrap to the recycling center is a bit nerve-racking. The terrain of the expedition planet is... not ideally suited to hauling unsecured, destructible cargo on an open flatbed truck. It has edges, stuff doesn't just roll off it randomly, but hit a big enough bump going fast enough and that stuff is going to fly everywhere. And may the Atlas help you if you drive into a cave. This planet has a lot of caves. And you don't have the Exosuit module that lets you teleport your Exocraft, so if you get the Colossus hopelessly stranded down a hole, you're going to have to walk back to wherever the Exobay is and resummon it.

Here's the Colossus with my two favorite mods you can earn during the expedition. I'm pretty sure they're just cosmetic, but it felt like it handled the terrain a little more steadily rigged out like this...

she's got legs... she knows how to use them

... and the industrial camo paint scheme looks perfect in orange and yellow.

In other news, I captured a pirate ship! It came with one of NMS's usual random procedural names, so there was only one thing I could call it, really.

I've accumulated quite a fleet, which I suspect must be at least a little intimidating when the whole gang booms out of hyperspace in an unsuspecting system.

any fruit to declare?{/font]

The frigates with the red "sails" are lesser pirate ships I've picked up along the way; the one surrounded by the green haze is the Ship of the Damned, which was an expedition reward (I think for the Spooky Season one whose name I've forgotten). Normandy and my two Living Ship frigates are in there too, but they're harder to spot at this scale.

Also, I discovered a while ago that if you access a holocomm tower when you don't have a mission that calls for it, you have the opportunity to read the logs of the last message it was used to send.

I showed you my carapace, please respond

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