Star Citizen guide #25: bases and stations, where to buy, sell and respawn

Illustration: a ring-shaped space station and a planet

Knowing the universe’s key places saves a huge amount of time. Here are the essential landmarks, system by system.

Stanton: the four cities

Lorville (Hurston): industrial city, New Deal ship shop, metro. Grim but practical.
Area18 (ArcCorp): a city-planet, Astro Armada ship shop, plenty of weapon and armor shops.
New Babbage (microTech): icy, modern city, tram, lots of shops.
Orison (Crusader): a floating city in the clouds, Crusader Showroom, and the entrance to the Siege of Orison.

Stanton: the stations

Each planet has its orbital station: Everus Harbor (Hurston), Baijini Point (ArcCorp), Port Tressler (microTech) and Seraphim Station (Crusader). Handy for a quick takeoff without crossing a city.
Lagrange point stations work as rest stops: fuel, repairs, trade, and often a refinery for miners.
Grim HEX, near Yela: Stanton’s outlaw hideout, where you sell what you can’t sell anywhere else.

Pyro and Nyx

In Pyro, big stations like Ruin Station (with the Buy & Fly shop), Checkmate or Orbituary are the anchor points. Out here, the factions make the law.
In Nyx, Levski (on Delamar) is the heart of the system, with Teach’s Ship Shop and Recco Battaglia’s contracts. The Keeger Belt also hosts several stations.

Where to buy, sell and respawn

Buy: cities have the widest selection (ships, components, weapons, armor, clothes). Stations offer the essentials.
Sell: goods at commodity terminals (stations, cities, outposts), loot at shops that buy it back. Always compare two or three places.
Respawn: city hospitals and the clinics in many stations. Register your imprint as close as possible to what you’re doing.

💡 Beacon tip: shop catalogs change with every patch. Community databases (such as UEX for trading) are more up to date than any fixed list.

Read next: Navigation and jumps · Trading · Buying a ship in game

Written for Star Citizen Alpha 4.10.2 (October 2026). The game changes with every patch: if something has moved, tell us in a reply and we’ll update the guide.