Hardspace: Shipbreaker
27 Achievements
35-40h
GOG
Ghost in the Ship
Read the Machine God's message Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
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How to unlock the Ghost in the Ship achievement in Hardspace: Shipbreaker - Definitive Guide
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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 
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.
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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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.
By Orion#1088 on 23 Sep 2022 14:05
I just got it and was about to write a guide, but you beat me :)
By Bobo Magrot0 on 23 Sep 2022 14:36
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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.
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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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.
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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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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This trophy must be obtained before your team begins to sabotage the work.
After the strike, ghost ships will not come across you.
After the strike, ghost ships will not come across you.
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.
By Jane-air on 21 Feb 2024 21:13