A New Starfield Currency Could Be The Key To The Most Powerful Legendaries

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's June 2024 update brought many changes to the game, including improvements to its Trackers Alliance. This faction allows its members to become true bounty hunters, but it also has a less advertised mechanic which is useful for any Spacefarer. That is because one of its agents has all the legendary gear a player could want — if they have the Astras to pay for it.

Astra is a new currency which was added to the game during the June 2024 update. They do not wait until the player becomes a member of the Trackers Alliance to appear, so it is possible some players made the mistake of selling thembefore realizing their true value. Knowing how to use these tokens will prevent plenty of frustration.

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The Settled Systems are full of unsavory characters, and they often carry some of best gear. Any human enemy, from a lowly level-two pirate to a powerful Ecliptic Warmonger, has a chance to appear with three extra red bars below their normal HP bar. This signals that the enemy is carrying a rare item, but it also means the NPC may be carrying the new currency: Astra.

Additionally, Astras can appear in the large storage, military, and science chests at the end of dungeons, and the chest at the end of the Trackers Alliance mission is also guaranteed to have an Astra. A variant of these chests is the Captain's Locker which can be found on starships. This means that a player with the Targeting Control Systems skill, a useful Tech skill, can farm Astras by disabling and boarding enemy ships. Considering multiple enemy spaceships often appear together, this is a more efficient method for acquiring the valuable bars than running dungeons.

Space combat difficulty can be changed individually via the settings menu, which could make Astra farming even easier.

The new currency appears as a miscellaneous item and can be sold for credits at most