Tying xp to completing endeavors and such (in game time instead of real time) makes sense to me, and it's what I would do in your place.<br/><br/>As for what's going on in the main thread...  huh?  What just happened?   I think that Antony apologized... although I'm not sure I understand anything else he said.  The "holoprojector" ship does what exactly?  Vanishes?  (You've had ships vanishing and reappearing all over the place, why on earth would be believe that this is real either?)  And what ship appears?  You've got me pretty confused at the moment... the only reason I'm not thinking we're supposed to go back to searching for opponents is that you're giving us achievement points... which means I don't have any actual in-game reason not to be making lots of sensor checks, flying willy-nilly around looking for bad guys, etc...<br/><br/>You say we "broke the back of the pirate fleet" but as far as I can tell, we didn't defeat a single enemy ship!  Unless we did, and I'm just confused.  When did we beat an enemy ship, exactly?  Shooting a glass filled derelict doesn't count... was there another ship we actually defeated?<br/><br/>I'm actually confused as to if we did anything at all, or if we simply showed up and were played with before the trickster behind it all decided he was bored and told us we won.  More than a bit unsatisfying.  It's like nothing we did mattered.<br/><br/>All our detailed plans, our skills, all our dice rolls, all the karma points spent... what did they actually accomplish?  The point is... I don't know!