Scuttled

They sank her for a reason. Your ship is gone. Your escape pod drifted the belt for days - until the scanner caught a faint reactor signature: the MSV Lodestar, a freighter scuttled by her own crew and left dark in the rocks. You board her. Then you get to work. - Defend. Aim the main cannon yourself. Asteroids bounce off your shield — but every deflected rock is ore you'll never smelt. - Salvage. Tractor in the shards, refine ore to ingots, and spend them on the machine keeping you alive. - Rebuild. Every repair and upgrade appears on your ship: turret barrels sweep from under the hull, drones sortie from real cargo doors, the warp core assembles piece by piece. - Descend. Five Power Core tiers push you deeper — through magnetic storms, comet windfalls, swarm surges, pirates that rob your salvage, and the guardian that rules each sector. - Uncover. The Lodestar's crew left their logs behind. Each guardian you kill recovers one — and the deeper you go, the clearer the reason they sank her becomes. - Escape. Charge the warp drive while everything in the belt comes for you. Then go home. One ship. Six sectors. One way out. No offline progress, no prestige treadmill - a complete 5-6 hour arc with an actual ending.