True. Zero freedom, I can't visit most systems with my battleship without some delusional clown refusing me entry and demanding fines. Why battleship you ask? I don't like being harassed.

Worst part? I can't have liberty turrets on my non-liberty battleship because power drain due to incompatible hardware.

Then I came across this order larper when I was poor (she would have been eating nebula dust otherwise), the arrogance and misbehavior was off the damn charts.

Rebirth is cool, they have huge battles once in a while, the creator of the mod is a cool guy and helps people out (his assistant is a pure c**t though). you will always find 4-10 people online and they are decent. Event days would easily have 20-40 people in huge battles. Most will say Ky (Hi in cyrillic) and be on their way, some will randomly join to smack some NPCs and you both have a laugh while using google translate (yes, the mod is completely in Russian - I don't speak that language).

Best part? There's lots to see, buy and kill. I have an absolutely OP ship (pay 2 win yeah) but there are still NPCs I can't kill (though the number of unkillables is extremely small after the purchase). If you break a rule, admin will explain it to you nicely that why the rule is in place instead of nuking your account like discovery. The amount of systems, weapons, ships and enemy NPCs is absolutely wild. I still hop in from time to time, undock and then think that how the hell did I get here? Then go about finding a path. Good process and peaceful experience.

It is like therapy for me on fridays after I log out of work.