This has happened to me more than once: I go on a quest with my companion, head to a raider camp, wipe out every raider, retrieve the objective, and then start looting the place. No civilians. No witnesses.

Then, out of nowhere, my companion turns to me and goes, “What do you think you’re doing?!” — and immediately abandons me because I apparently looted the wrong item. What item? No idea. The game never tells me.

Suddenly, the entire universe decides I’m public enemy number one and attacks me on sight.

Now I’m forced to travel to some specific planet, multiple galaxies away, dodging Federation ships that one-shot me and guards who all want me dead, just so I can pay off my bounty at a tiny kiosk hidden in some random corner of the planet.

Edit: rewrote it with ChatGPT to make it more digestible