A player in Starfield watches as his unmanned ship leaves without him and inexplicably attacks allies.
What’s up with the ship? A Starfield player named “Randol0rian” shared a curious clip on Reddit, showing his unmanned spaceship taking off and attacking a United Colonies ship.
The player was at the time on the space station “the Eye”, which you visit during the main story while in orbit around the planet Jemison (Alpha Centauri). The space station has transparent corridors from which you can look into space and see your docked ship.
But as the player looked out of the space station, he saw his ship undock and take off without him. Shortly thereafter, the ghost ship begins to pursue and attack a passing United Colonies ship.
You can see the Reddit clip with the independently acting ship here:
The attack on civilians, UC Security, or Freestar Rangers is considered a crime in Starfield. The members of the United Colonies are allies, and even when you play as a space pirate, it is strictly forbidden to attack ordinary citizens and civilians of the inhabited systems.
Why is the ship flying away? Even though some users on Reddit joke that the daughter of the space cowboy Sam Coe is to blame and that you shouldn’t leave her alone on the ship, this is likely a bug.
In a comment under his post, Randol0rian explains that it’s not a problem caused by the crew or the space station “the Eye”. The ship would even attack other ships if he simply leaves the controls for a moment and stands up.
However, he doesn’t have the problem with other ships. Only the ship seen in the clip acts independently in a ghostly manner. The ship seems to be controlled by an AI, similar to the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, which has developed a life of its own.
Player finds solution to fix the ghost ship bug
How did he solve the problem? After he realized that only that one ship was affected by the bug, he made a small adjustment in the shipbuilder. He added a random structure to the ship, which fixed the automatic attacking error of UC ships.
In another comment, the player explained that he kept a save file with the curious error. The idea of an independent AI controlling the ship and attacking people fits too well in the sci-fi setting of Starfield.
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