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Start off buying and selling goods between 90 different planets, create or join a guild and buy over 200 different ships, your guild can even buy a planet and arm it with a satellite defence station with your guild name on it so everyone can see the planets you own, you can get money hourly even offline collencting taxes from the planets you own.
