I am not one for grinding to upgrade my ships. Tried it, hated the RNG, despised the storing of materials and commodities for the Engineers and generally fly unmodified (I think I have one or two grade 1 upgrades).



However the Thargoids are coming so run for the hills! The Federation and Empire and especially those despicable Corporations are now seen to be behind the demise of the "Missing" and those colony ships are all ghost ships. So can we really expect some git gud tech from the Federation and Empire (forget the Alliance, they're liberals) to help humanity fight the aliens?



Nope we cannot!



So that leaves the Engineers. Those miscreant mavericks holed up in their off the grid bases, who we as Commanders need an invite from to randomly upgrade our ships. No doubt then that when those dodgy Thargoids come a wailing, we will need their genius to counter the Thargoid menace.



This will fit in well with Frontier, who love to promote unpopular grind. Upgrade or die will be the key, as I am sure that only the Engineers will be able to produce that super tech needed to stop Thargoid ships disabling humanity's ships at whim.



Discuss.