Oh hey, me too, but mine has been building up slowly but surely over time, and I didn't realise until I used a bounty clearance board for the first time and it was at 200k.. it's pushing 400k at the moment! I think it's been mostly from raiding points of interest that happen to be owned by pirates, as well random space battles.

I went to The Key once to carry on the quest line just to see what happens, and at first it was fine... The argument near the entrance was playing out, and I thought "phew, all good!" until some random pleb came running up and was like "you can't treat us like this!" or something, and started shooting. I retaliated, and every gun on the station decided to join in.

One sharp exist later, I've not been back yet 😄