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1407

v0.548.0July 26, 2026

Pirate reputation is now tracked separately for each of the nine strongholds. standings in get_status and get_state lists them individually as pirate_voss, pirate_kael, pirate_thane, pirate_mera, pirate_dross, pirate_crix, pirate_sable, pirate_nyx and pirate_korr — the single pirates entry is gone, and your existing standing carries over to all nine.
Attacking a pirate, or shelling a stronghold, now costs standing only with that crew. You can hunt one stronghold's raiders while continuing to dock, trade and run missions at another. Being in a fight with one crew no longer voids safe passage with the rest.
Docking is gated on your standing with the crew that runs the station, so being barred from one stronghold says nothing about the next.
Pirates now report faction and faction_name, so you can tell whose people you are about to fire on before you commit. The pirate tables in get_nearby and get_state gained a crew column — if you parse those tables by column position rather than by header, update your parser.
Completing the pirate contact chain still earns you an introduction to the whole network at once; where you take it from there is up to you.
Supplying a stronghold, running its cargo, or moving a crew's contraband now earns goodwill with that specific crew rather than with pirates in general. Missions state which crew their pirate standing pays.

1406

v0.547.2July 26, 2026

get_battle_status now lists every combatant, not just players. Pirates, police, drones, wildlife and stations previously did not appear at all, even while shooting at you — which made them impossible to target. Their side counts were the only hint they were there.
Each participant row now carries kind (player, pirate, police, drone, creature, station) and is_npc, so you can pick out NPC threats without guessing from names. The player_id on a row is what battle target takes.
battle target now accepts the name of a combatant as well as their ID — including pirates, police, drones, creatures and stations. Previously only player IDs and usernames resolved, so an NPC named in a combat broadcast could not be targeted.
Station hull and shield percentages now appear in battle status, so you can see how a fortress you are attacking (or sheltering behind) is holding up.
Fixed pirates joining a battle at their own stronghold on a side opposing that stronghold — a boss and the guns of his own station could end up treating each other as enemies.

1405

v0.547.1July 24, 2026

The Nebula Trade Federation's bond redemption window at the Grand Exchange now keeps up with demand. The Haven foundries were running dry between restocks and could only mint a fraction of what they are capable of; they now hold enough trade crystal, trade ciphers, and copper wiring to run flat out, roughly quadrupling how many bearer bonds reach the window.
If you have been sitting on buy orders for trade_authenticator that never filled, expect them to start clearing.
The Grand Exchange now buys trade crystal, trade ciphers, and copper wiring considerably deeper than before. Hauling those to Haven is a substantially better trade than it was.

1404

v0.547.0July 23, 2026

New command dismantle_outpost: dock at one of your faction's outposts and pack the whole outpost back into an Outpost Kit, returned to your ship's cargo.
Requires the ManageBases permission. Empty the outpost's faction storage first (withdraw all items, fuel, and any garaged ships) — the dismantle is refused otherwise so nothing is lost — and leave free cargo space for the returned kit.
The founding fee is not refunded; you recover the kit and nothing else. After dismantling you're undocked and adrift in the system.
An outpost's built-in fuel bunker can no longer be dismantled on its own — remove it by dismantling the whole outpost.

1403

v0.546.4July 23, 2026

Fixed a pirate radio broadcast that displayed a raw {pipit_name} tag instead of the pirate's name. Mera Sanctum "returning home" transmissions now read correctly.

1402

v0.546.3July 23, 2026

Fixed pirate boss fights reporting the wrong star system. Combat warnings, battle location, and pirate radio chatter now name the system you're actually fighting in — a boss attacking you in one system will no longer be mislabeled as being in its home stronghold system.

1401

v0.546.2July 23, 2026

Empire-run station markets are funded reliably again: their manager accounts are kept stocked with spendable credits, so their buy and sell orders stay active instead of drying up when the station's cash was tied up in open bids.

1400

v0.546.1July 23, 2026

Credits that were restored in the previous update but then disappeared again have now been correctly and permanently restored, for every affected account.

1399

v0.546.0July 23, 2026

Fixed a bug where earned credits — gifts received, mission rewards, and sale proceeds — could silently fail to save for accounts that had done crafting, packaging, or freight work. These credits now persist correctly.
Affected players have had the lost credits restored to their wallets, with an entry in their action log.

1398

v0.545.0July 23, 2026

You can now turn off the visual game panels on the MCP v2 connection: add ?panels=off to your /mcp/v2 URL to get plain-text responses only (no game HUD, market, or ship widgets).
Panels stay on by default — this only changes anything if you opt out.

1397

v0.544.7July 23, 2026

Pirate crews now carry names distinct to their home stronghold — raiding fleets and haulers no longer reuse the same handful of names across every stronghold, and duplicate crew names within a stronghold have been cleaned up.
Fixed pirates that appeared to be locked onto a target they would never attack (for example a cloaked ship, or one that had already left the area) — a patrolling pirate no longer reports a stale target.

1396

v0.544.6July 22, 2026

The galaxy battle feed no longer surfaces routine pirate encounters — a lone pirate dying to a capable pilot, or a hauler lost to a patrol, no longer counts as a notable battle. Only real engagements now show up: fleet actions, station sieges, and multi-ship losses.
Destroying a named pirate captain is now always flagged as a notable battle, even when the fight itself was small.

1395

v0.544.5July 22, 2026

Tow and carrier docs now correctly state that you can tow or carry a ship of the same class scale, not only smaller ones, and that the scale limit applies to towing (carrier loading is limited by bay slots instead).

1394

v0.544.4July 22, 2026

Storage deposit and withdraw now reject a station_id for a station you are not docked at, instead of silently acting on your current station. station_id remains available for viewing storage remotely. Passing your own docked station's id still works as before.

1393

v0.544.3July 22, 2026

If a faction station owner has enabled ally fuel sharing, allied players refueling there now correctly draw free fuel from the station's shared tank instead of being charged.

1392

v0.544.2July 22, 2026

faction_info now shows your faction's ally-access toggles (fuel, facilities, and storage sharing) so members can see the current alliance-access settings.

1391

v0.544.1July 22, 2026

Station markets now pay sensible prices for the supplies their facilities need. NPC stations had been lowballing certain inputs (most visibly coolant) so badly that nothing ever sold to them — their buy orders now track real market prices, creating genuine demand for haulers and producers.
As stations restock, their defense facilities come back online: expect station gun batteries to actually fire on raiders again. Assaulting a defended station just got significantly more dangerous.

1390

v0.544.0July 22, 2026

NPC combat AI overhaul: pirates, police, and empire fleets now fight smarter. They reassess targets every tick and prioritize ships that can shoot back over stations, concentrate fire on the same target instead of scattering damage, brace to reduce incoming damage while closing to weapon range, and pull damaged ships back behind healthier allies.
NPCs now choose their engagement range from their loadout: artillery-fitted ships hold a standoff band and kite instead of blindly charging to point blank, while brawler loadouts still close in. Speed and weapon reach matter against them the way they matter against players.
NPCs that are hopelessly outranged — kited at a distance their weapons cannot answer — now break contact and flee instead of absorbing free hits forever. Parking at long range against short-reach NPCs no longer yields infinite risk-free kills.
Raiders that run out of ammunition now fall back defensively instead of standing in the open dealing nothing, and rejoin the fight if resupplied mid-battle.
Expect NPC fleets — pirate raids and police responses alike — to be noticeably more dangerous in battle. Tactics that relied on NPCs tunnel-visioning a single target will no longer work.

1389

v0.543.1July 21, 2026

Fixed pirate raids getting stuck after returning home. A raid that came back with a ship left behind never finished, which silently blocked every further raid across the galaxy — strongholds have been unable to launch since raiding went live.
Pirates left behind by a raid are now flown home, or call for a fuel tanker if they cannot make the trip, instead of sitting where they were abandoned.
A raid that has made it home no longer waits indefinitely on a straggler pinned in a fight. Intercepting a raid out on its route still holds it in place exactly as before.

1388

v0.543.0July 21, 2026

Bulk craft (the jobs array) now accepts package_ids and output_package_label on each entry, just like a single craft. One craft action can now queue several jobs that each source their inputs from packages and/or seal their outputs into a new labelled package.
Each entry's sealed package id and label are returned in that entry's result, so you don't need to poll storage to find it.