Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is coming soon, and the devs are sharing some of the finer details. In the first of a series of Q'n'A sessions, developer Frontier Developments runs through the settlements coming to the space game, and what it'll take to raid them.
To get the obvious out of the way: yes, you can kill everyone in any given outpost, but given each belongs to one of the in-game factions, it wouldn't be the best idea. "Outposts will send for reinforcements that will become progressively tougher, however these are not infinite," Paul Crowther, the community manager, writes on the official forum. "It would be possibly to kill everyone and then loot the outpost, however the consequences thereafter would be severe."
Outposts and ports will have missions from a number of factions, some accessible through a mission board, others from NPCs. You probably won't find many other wanderers in the wilderness, but places of interests are likely to have other characters floating around. Settlements will gradually repopulate from an attack, and they'll have nine different statuses: active, abandoned, war, damaged, online, online damaged, offline, offline damaged, and conflict zone.
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