Jonathan Dowland: Honest Jon’s lightly-used Starships

No man’s Sky (or as it’s known in our house, “spaceship game”) is a space
exploration/sandbox game that was originally released 10 years ago. Back then I
tried it on my brother‘s PS4 but I couldn’t get into it. In 2022 it launched
for the Nintendo Switch¹ and the game finally clicked for me.

I play it very casually. I mostly don’t play at all, except sometimes when
there are time-limited “expeditions” running, which I find refreshing, and
usually have some exclusives as a reward for play.

One of the many things you can do in the game is collect star ships. I started
keeping a list of notable ones I’ve found, and I’ve decided to occasionally
blog about them.

The Horizon Vector NX is a small sporty ship that players on Nintendo Switch
could claim within the first month or so after it launched. The colour scheme
resembles the original “neon” switch controllers. Although the ship type occurs
naturally in the game in other configurations, I think differently-painted
wings are unique to this ship.

For most of the last 4 years, my copy of this ship was confined to the Switch,
until November 2024, when they added cross-save capability to the game. I was
then able to access the ship when playing on Linux (or Mac).