Datamining: 3.5 release, references to Damaged Station Core [Information]
There's the text you can see just by walking up to the (new in 3.5) Station Core of any normal starbase:
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_NAME:
Station Core
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_SUB:
Flightpath and Landing Overseer
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_LANG:
Life support systems: Stable... Commercial monitoring: Online... Flight path management: 95% efficiency...
but then there's also text for the currently-greyed item based interaction you can have with it:
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_OPT:
Input Override Code
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_RES:
Counterfeit code detected... UI_GameMode_Erase_Error ACCESS DENIED
as well as a Damaged Station Core:
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_DAM_NAME:
Damaged Station Core
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_DAM_SUB:
Corrupt Station Controller
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_DAM_LANG:
– TXT_RadioNoisekzkzzt –
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_DAM_OPT:
Repair Core
UI_SPACE_STATION_CORE_DAM_RES:
CANNOT COMPLETE REPAIR... UI_GameMode_Erase_ErrorUNABLE TO REINITALISE PRIMARY STORAGE...
UI_STATION_KEY_NAME:
STATION OVERRIDE
UI_STATION_KEY_NAME_L:
Station Override
UI_STATION_KEY_DESC:
A portable data drive containing the AI override codes for a Space Station Core.
The importance of the station AI core ensures that such keys are both highly regulated and extremely profitable on the black market.
UI_STATION_KEY_SUB:
AI Master Key
(For those who aren't used to looking at this kind of data, the stuff in brackets is markup that tells the game when to use a special text color or symbol.)
If I had to guess, I'd say that the bases in abandoned star systems will, in an upcoming update/expedition, get their own messed up version of the normal Station Core, and we'll have some sort of special interaction with it. Maybe an expedition goal will involve finding these special items and taking...