Shops

Aside from the Trade Depot which is present on all economic stations in the game, major trade hubs such as Independent Traders (the brown type excluded), Mega Malls and Shipyards host both an equipment and blueprint shop where you can buy equipment for your character and blueprints for research. Both of these shop types stock four items and like the Trade Depot they restock every 30 minutes. You can sell unwanted equipment to the equipment shop and blueprints to the blueprint shop and if you make a mistake there is a buyback tab you can switch to in order to buy equipment pieces you accidentally sold. As well as this any major trade hub you can find containing blueprint and equipment shop will accept exotic matter from exploded reactors at slightly less than the market value of $1000 per unit, somewhere around $750 to $800 per unit.

Trade Depot

 * The trade depot is where any and all trade goods can be bought and sold.

Equipment Shop

 * You can buy and sell equipment pieces for your character at this shop, it is wise to visit an independent trade early in the game to buy your first nano aura, weapon and armor in order to make boarding infested stations or ships you intend to capture easier.

Blueprint Shop

 * At the blueprint shop you can find blueprints ready to be activated and researched. Blueprints cost 20% of the research cost and you can find ship design blueprints sold at these shops, including those of some of the largest ships.