I'll try to check it out. I read on the Wikipedia page the goal is to earn enough to buy a moon and retire. I had something similar in mind based on the idea of having a limited length career and maybe successors like in Pirates! and Sunless Sea.
Hey, thanks for the comment! I've never heard of Space Trader, I'll check it out. My big sources of inspiration for this project are, of course FTL and also Elite, particularly Elite 2 Frontier which I played on the Atari STE so I wanted to bring some of that 16bit style to the graphics and music.