It is a organism that was introduced into the galaxy long ago by ancient korvax experiments and has been existing for millenia. It is until now that we can domesticate these ancient and powerful beings. But it is not as easy as it sounds, and that is why I am here to help.

They are almost never found out in the wild and ones that you do find by chance just so happen to need new organs. So finding one that way is out of the equation.

The answer lies within the space anomaly, The quicksilver synthesis companion has added these new "Void eggs" to its inventory. To get one you will need 3,200 quicksilver. If you don't have that, then i recommend you save up for one because it will take time. You get quicksilver missions from the nexus once every day up to 3 total days before you lose them. Each one completed yields 250 QS. And weekend ones give 1200 QS

Assuming you have a normal void egg. All you need to do is simply exit the anomaly and pulse around for a bit. All will seem fine at first until you get hailed by a living starship. Stop and listen to what it says and accept its message and then your void egg will start getting agitated.

This part is long and strenuous for those with a standard pulse engine and will take even more time. I also recommend a maxed hyperdrive and systems.

The egg will give you coordinates for a specific planet in a specific system. Head over to the system and arrive to the marked planet and then the void egg gives you more coordinates planet wise. This is where it can get tricky.

All starships have a GPS indicating where they are on the planet coordinate wise. it is different for each class, just look around your starships dashboard. And then line yourself up to where the coordinates go and then pulse there. (or use space travel for longer distances)

Once you arrive nearby to the coordinates, they pinpoint exactly to where you need to go. and it will always lead to a alien monolith.

Just follow what the monolith says to do and then you will get a recipe for a consciousness bridge, It will lead you to a freighter and you will get the hexite needed for it. The rest of the stuff can be farmed or bought.

Once its made. Head to the marked beacon (It may or may not be the same planet or location) and deposit the bridge.

You will get a neural stem. you will have to hold onto it for somewhere around 24 hours for it to mature.

After it is done. simply pulse around in space for the next transmission from a living ship.

The rest of the organs are retrieved in all a similar fashion up until you head to the 5th planet to collect the traveler souls.

This next bit describes what one does when they have all the matured organs in their inventory.

The fifth planet will be very far away and most players often go on a galaxy wide goose chase for the planet. But where you need to go is given to you by the void egg... Perhaps in a more unconventional fashion.. In the form of portal coordinates.

Coordinates May be different per. but here's a example.

/// Hunter /// Star Over Water /// Anomaly /// Atlas /// Ancient giant /// The Ocean King ///

Your void egg will probably not look like this. And here's a separate guide to deciphering the portal glyph's. https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Portal#Table_of_correspondence_for_Glyphs

Once that is all sorted out. Find a portal and charge it up, then input the coordinates. It is now where you can finally make some progress.

The void egg will ping you to an abandoned building. Go inside and then go to the terminal, it will give you something called a soul container (or something like that i forgot.) Then the void egg gives you coordinates for a traveler grave. Go and use the container when you interact with them and you will fill up the container, you need to do this 3 times until it is full. And when it is full. just return to your system through the portal.

After you return home. Go into your starship and you will be hailed by a living ship via communicator. It will guide you to a downed living ship, It is dead. but can be revived by performing biogenesis on it.

Simply insert the organs one by one. And it will be now when the void egg hatches. Now you need to imprint it by simply going into its menu, and then adding it to your fleet.

You are now done with the hatching process. Congratulations! All future living ships only cost 10,000 nanites now!

You are now the proud parent of your own living starship. But what are the advantages to using a living starship to a normal one?

Living ship: Pros
Warp is cheap, Weapons do fairly high damage from start, Taking off is also cheap and getting to flex on others because you have one and they don't.

Living ship: Cons
Pulse engine fuel is rather expensive, Upgrades are expensive and takes a long time to find and Takes a long time to get in general.

Most of these cons can be lowered by adding upgrades to your living ship. But said upgrades are expensive nanite wise. I have a guide for that here: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1814279818

And speaking of nanites. you can use them to level up your ships upgrades! Its expensive though!

Now that's out of the way. its also fun to see what kinds of shapes and colors you can get!

You will need to feed your new friend every now and then to make sure your living ship says happy with you. Start by giving it a name!

The living ship does not eat radioactive isotopes and weird rocks when its heart beats. but instead it feeds off of gold and silver found in dense asteroid fields. And when it does calculations for FTL travel, It simply eats chromatic metal. It is significantly more efficient than antimatter cells. And the brain needs oxygen every now and then, but certain organs can help the brain gather its own.

Make sure to warp often to keep your ship happy!