Close Encounter

- Phil Savage

Robert Bettig jumped into the Aries Dark System, a bounty hunter on his tail. “I knew it was going to be a long, boring trip so I just settled in and grabbed a cold beer. I wasn’t even really paying attention,” he tells PC Gamer. This is routine stuff for a player with over 2,000 hours in Elite Dangerous. What happened next was anything but.

Bettig’s ship flashed up “hyperspace conduit unstable” and he was ripped out of hyperspace. This was new. Being pulled out of a jump between systems was, until that moment, impossible.