During  a battle my npc crew members abandoned ship. My ship was not damaged and they were not injured. This has happened many times now making managing my ship very difficult. Were can I get new npc crew members or more importantly how do i stop them from leaving? 

Also, if i die I respawn back at the original space station with no way to get another ship. This makes restarting the game problematic as every time i try to reload the server i'm back on the space station with no ship. 

Please help and thank you again for your time. 

Hi.

Suicide NPCs is a known issue, still working on a proper fix for this.

You can buy new NPC crew from slavers(the ones that are not hostile) or from some trading stations(they might have a guy there who has engineers for hire)

When you loose the Falcon ship - it's GG. 

You can restart the play-through from the in-game menu - Press escape and select Reset server(you will need to reconnect)

Thank you. I truly love this game. one of my favorite. Their is another problem that needs to be fixed. I can't donate. I have been trying for weeks. Itch.io will not process my paypal. I know it works as i use it for other things, it only does not work here. Is there another way I can donate? You deserve it. I would have  said something sooner but i thought it was a system error that would eventually correct itself. 

oh yea, forgot to ask, if you hit f1 it says you can it's possible to take over another ship, yet in the forums you said that it's not possible. I want to play with a friend and we want to steal another ship. My guess is you have to teleport onto the other vessel and hack it. Is it possible?