Vandar {l Wrote}:I have a question about the intro story - if the old man who approaches you had a fleet of ships and retired, why didn't he keep at least one ship as personal yacht or so? Seafaring folks never feel comfortable at land for long, and spacefaring people will be the same. And even if he sold the fleet, and regrets the step, he should have enough money to buy a small ship again any time he wants to? I'm pretty sure I'd keep a ship and go for space travels till my bones are so old and brittle that my health won't allow any more space travels.
Well, it's partly just artistic license as a way of explaining why you're being offered a set of "tutorial" missions.
But, my idea of what is going on in his head is that he wants to travel with a rookie pilot and be reminded of how exciting space travel was for him, back in the beginning, before it became routine. And, he wants to do a new pilot a favor before he retires.
Of course, you're right that he'll probably get bored after a month in the retirement home, buy himself another ship, and head back out into the sky, but right now he thinks that retiring planet-side is what he really wants.