There could be something like that out there for real, we don't know... Space is not in fact 100% empty, it contains billions upon billions of tons of ionized hydrogen, so there could be creatures in it that can extract and convert this hydrogen in a similar way to how a fish extracts and converts oxygen from water.
Hi, shuddering in fear now, you bet. Never seen one of you guys in deep space, only camping well known space entry points, in packs, to make sure who'll win. Try to get me, I always carry some common dung when in space - wouldn't it be too cruel to leave you without any loot? In the rare case you'd actually bring me down? (Never happened yet though) Can I expect you to bring any loot, too, besides your speed hacks etc? Else it wouldn't make sense to carry a gunner, right? But anyways, have a good time watching each other in this dead game area named space, that nobody cares about but you, and that nobody but a few nOObs goes to with loot. Must be a sad live, I feel with ya. Have a good time!
In my previous thread above, I was of course referring to RL space, not in-game space :P Something like the nebula virus shown in Stagger's video clip (I repeat, something like...) could exist out there.
Not a fan of space pirates. I tried pirating a space pirate once--thought I could fight the power--but they're always running around in packs like a bunch of hooligans.