While deployed, you may come around Escape Pods.
Identifying the inhabitants of such Escape Pods may net you nice rewards.
Here’s how to do that:
Once you find an Escape Pod, switch to your Mining Laser, this is the tool you will need to open the panel on the Escape Pod, which is held in place by 4 screws.
Once the panel is off, you press ‘E’ to install the decoder on the Escape Pod.
Escape Pods are secure by 4 digit-numbers, which will be cracked by your decoder on a rate of 1 number every 10 seconds, and the numbers will be displayed from left to right on your HUD.
Once the decryption is complete and you have the 4 numbers, interact with the Escape Pod, and input the password in the numpad that will now appear.
For each identified Escape Pod, you will be rewarded with random Weapon Mods and 20.000 Credits.