I've been paying Starsector recently and have been really enjoying it. 
It's a top down space sim that doesn't really have a campaign or structure to go through. It's all about making your own fun akin to the Mount and blade games. 
I've been playing as a bounty hunter for now with a small fleet hunting down pirates and space luddite islamists 
I only have a few frigates and carrier with some retrofitted civilian freighters and drone haulers. My own little merc company 
I don't know whether I'll create a colony eventually or not. It's kinda necessary if you want to do salvaging and hunt down any blueprints or rare ships but I might just settle for cleansing the galaxy of pirates 
Anyway I want to finish a campaign before I dive into the huge modding scene this game has. I've been eyeing the fighter customisation mod where you create specialised fighter wings with your own officers and even pilot them yourself.
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Play the game. It's awesome 
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Try nexerelin
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This. if you aren't modding your game to heck and back to the point where you constantly have to restart saves due to crashing before you can save you aren't playing starsector right.
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