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  • Completing an "Audacious", "Mistake", "Personal", or "Stronghold Liberation" mission.
    • Similarly, due to the wide variety of ways missions can be solved, succeeding with a more unconventional method can feel fantastic.
  • The first player legend qualifies - detailing the story of how clever swapper use allowed a player to eliminate an armored guard by tossing him out a broken window. The story is told from the guard's perspective:
    Player Legend Description: As a ship’s security guard, especially as an armoured elite, you have to be ready for anything. This one saw Ferris Harris coming. He saw an Offworld Angel coming at his ship’s broken window full burn, and even though he knew it couldn’t dock, he was ready for whatever other nonsense they were about to try.

    At the moment of impact, Harris hit eject. He threw himself from his pod, through the pressure-retention field, and skidded to a halt directly in front of the guard. The guard didn’t flinch. He fired. And Harris swapped with him.

    The guard was not ready for this. He suddenly found himself staring at the blue glow of the forcefield Harris just came through. He couldn’t process the situation fast enough to realise what would happen next: his own bullet hit him in the back of the head. His heavy armour saved him from the lethal impact, but the force was just enough to nudge him one step forwards – into the pressure field.

    What we don’t know is if, in the 15 seconds between being flung into the icy void and asphyxiating, he had time to figure out what the hell just happened.
  • The descriptions on the Steam trading cards are all stories about players doing something awesome, stupid, or both.

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