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• What's your experience with testing systems? Ever used a bug tracker before? Does the Ludeon bugtracker look foreign to you or familiar?

Used bug trackers a few times, few written in capital letters. I work as a sys admin so at least identifying missing libraries should be no problem ;-)

• What OSes do you have?

Suse and ubuntu, but I could only test on ubuntu since that is my gaming setup. With an fairly old AMD GPU and (still) the open-source driver.

• How much time do you have to test?

A few hours a week.  If I like the game that could become more or less.

• Ever recorded and uploaded video before? E.g. with FRAPS.

No.

About the spaceship paradox:

Lets assume that there are different ways to get faster than the light. So there might be tech levels that are able to cross to stars in the vicinity (<50 light years) but their method is not practical for greater distances (takes too long, uses too much of some scarce fuel, damaging health effects...). Your home civilization was some tech levels above and could produce ships with a range of more than 500 light years (maybe you even came on a prototype). Since it is a completely different method of hyperspace travel or uses wormholes instead of hyperspace you can't just capture and improve local ships. There is also no contact to your own civilization possible.

You also come in contact with other civilizations of your own tech level, but even for them travelling 500 light years is a mayor undertaking. They won't just transport you there because the round trip would cost them half their lives (or in the case of wormhole travel returning is likely to fail as you yourself found out, crashing on the planet was the best possible outcome of using the worm hole in that direction). Buying a ship from them might eventually be possible but your colony is aware that they can go home much faster if they build the ship themselves.