What happens to my body, and my clothing, armor, weapons, suit, and helmet that I put in my locker before I slept in my bed, when I log in to my friend's despawned Javelin: Since I didn't have a helmet on, or any clothes at all, am I now naked and floating in space with just seconds before I die? Do we get to abuse the bed logout mechanic to teleport across the galaxy to spawn in our home hangar? Does the Javelin that I do not own spawn in? Option 3 is the only one that makes any kind of sense. My bet is that: all characters will be treated like npcs when the player is offline; we will be able to custom code our character's offline ai; sleeping will become a survival requirement, and we can review -- like a diary -- recordings that the game made while we play to save or delete them; the player's character wakes up (ai takes over) when something happens or when the character doesn't need anymore sleep; and player's character's skills as a npc would all be set to some high skill level default.