Outposts

You claim a site by dropping an Outpost Beacon on a scanned world, then build extractors over resource veins for automated extraction, powered by generators and fed into storage, with cargo links shipping materials between outposts and up to orbit. The April 2026 Free Lanes update turned this from a chore into a logistics layer by adding cross-outpost (shared) storage, a resource/planet Database index and smarter cargo links, enabling a hub-and-spoke network where lean mining bases feed one main crafting hub. That cross-storage change is the single biggest quality-of-life fix, removing most of the manual hauling between bases.