Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

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Ghost in the Ship

Ghost in the Ship

Read the Machine God's message

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How to unlock the Ghost in the Ship achievement in Hardspace: Shipbreaker - Definitive Guide

For this achievement you must advance in the levels of the game until you can have access to Ghost Ships (Unknown Ships with a red glitchy picture). Star a shift, and choose one. You have to get inside the ship and find a helmet floating. Grab it with cn_X and return to home to end the shift. You have to do this 6 times to collect all the Ghost Ship Messages. There's no need to finish the job, you could start a new one inmediatly.

Go to the Employee terminal and enter in the Data Recovery [Unverified Application] and decode all the messages. One of those messages will be from The Machine God. When you open it, the achievement will pop.
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23 Sep 2022 12:30

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Thank you ... I was trying to remove all the nodes from multiple ships and it was a pain! I'll try this later and report back.
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By Orion#1088 on 23 Sep 2022 14:05
I just got it and was about to write a guide, but you beat me :)
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By Bobo Magrot0 on 23 Sep 2022 14:36
You only need 4 helmets.
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By Maxumilli0n on 24 Sep 2022 03:02
You only need the RIGHT helmet. I happened to get the correct data message on my very first ghost ship
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By LunaticMercury on 25 Sep 2022 01:47
LunaticMercury's comment above is correct - you need the RIGHT helmet. It took me 7 helmets before getting the message. Otherwise, the solution is correct.
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By MH The Rockstar on 25 Sep 2022 22:57
Just in case anyone is wondering: the requirement for getting ghost ships is to get to level 16.
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By CED RadBAD BOY on 26 Sep 2022 09:45
Do helmets appear on the scanner? If so what colour? I can't seem to find any.
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By Venozaur on 26 Sep 2022 17:54
Yes, they appear on the scanner if you have it upgraded to scan objects but they are different colors so you have to hover over them to make sure it is a helmet. You can unlock and purchase it at level 7.

What I did was choose a ghost ship, scan for the helmet in object mode, it is always in the cockpit so you can cut the glass. The air pressure will blow the helmet out of the ship if you do this and you have to search for the helmet so remember what color it was. Usually it ends up in the barge or right by your hab. Rinse and repeat until you find the correct helmet.
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By Maxumilli0n on 26 Sep 2022 18:36
I got this message ages ago, and have been searching for the helmets. Have about 8 of them, and it turns out it was the 2nd one I got. Just needed to select the message that says The Machine God. In case anyone else screws up like me.
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By FullMoonBeaver on 03 Oct 2022 12:01
If you don't have gosth ships at the beginning of you shify restart the game until you do
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By gashna on 07 Oct 2022 22:09
Take note if you just play the machine god's message as an audio file as soon as you pick up the helmet you don't get the achievement. You have to go into the computer and play it from the computer for it to unlock.
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By Ace#4617 on 12 May 2024 08:14
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Once you reach Level 16 you'll unlock "Ghost Ships", whose owner is listed as UNKNOWN on your Job Board. Some of these ships have a helmet somewhere inside, typically close to the cockpit but seemingly always in "crew areas" (as opposed to engineering spaces between inner walls and the hull). They are light blue in the scanner when you're in Objects mode.

When you collect these helmets, you'll get an Unidentified message in your Data Miner computer app. Recover the data to see what the message's title and owner is. The message you get from the helmet seems to randomized from a fairly short list. For this achievement, you need the message from The Machine God (the message is titled "The Machine God", its owner is "The Machine God", you get the idea). You specifically need to play the audio of the message from the Hab computer to get the achievement. You will not get the achievement by just reading the text of the message; it doesn't trigger until you play the audio.

You probably won't need more than a few helmets to get the right message. Make sure you decrypt all the message you get since it's hard to tell which scrambled message is which.

You can exit to the menu then re-enter Career mode to refresh the list of ships on your Job Board. Handy for if there are no UNKNOWN ships listed. Once you're in space, you can just grab the helmet and immediately head back to the Hab. On some ship designs with some helmet spawns you can spend as little as like 20 seconds from starting your shift to ending it with a new helmet recording.

Not a hard achievement, but easy to overlook since the audio that gets played (and which triggers the achievement) is just someone reading the text you can already see (and viewing the message's text doesn't trigger the achievement). Not very intuitive but that seems to be how it is.
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12 Mar 2023 00:00

At rank 16, when Ghost Ships are unlocked, start checking the cockpit of the ship using your object scanner. Instead of a credit drive, there may be a helmet floating around that you need to collect.
This will give you an audio log that needs to be decrypted in your hab. Out of the possible logs, one will be called "The Machine God".
You only need to read/play this one, though it may take a few to find the right one. If this is one of the last Trophies you need, just choose a ghost ship to scrap, check the cockpit with the object scanner, then finish the shift at the hab and try again.
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28 Jan 2024 09:28

On the "ghost ships" you can find 6 different records (one per ship), they look like astronaut helmets. I came across the entry I needed, which is called “God Machine,” the fifth in a row, that is, before finding it, I visited/recycled/dismantled four “ghost ships.”
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29 Sep 2022 07:18

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This trophy must be obtained before your team begins to sabotage the work.
After the strike, ghost ships will not come across you.
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By Pecar on 11 Feb 2024 20:56
The recording came across earlier than on the 5th or 6th ship. But! The prize is given for listening to this recording, not just transcribing and reading it. I called it the god machine with “audio magazine.bmc” with text starting with: “The machine speaks. The machine is god...”. We found it, reproduced it, and got the trophy.
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By Jane-air on 21 Feb 2024 21:13