Its Dead

The universe is, it just feels so empty and dead, the stations have barely anyone on them the systems are about as populated. And finally the xenon systems they are supposed to be terrifying opponents but when you can fly casually around their systems in the starter elite and not get bothered by much more than a couple of fighters over the course of an hours exploring. I took a warp bubble into the heart of a system and popped out right by a xenon shipyard, my first reaction was of horror and "im going to die horribly" NOPE just flew around no problem and their defence stations i can park right next to them without any trouble (same cannot be said about the Khaak ones though)



I guess what im saying is, this is easy/boring, the only worthwhile thing i thus far have found is to build a trading empire and stations though im going to have nothing to do with all the money when i get that far as there will by the looks of it not be a single combative challenge.



Also where are all the pirates? I would have expected at least one pirate sector.