Why you landed in prison⌗

In Star Citizen the current flyable system, Stanton, is controlled by the laws of the UEE. If you commit crime in the system within monitored space you wil be given a crime stat. Receiving a crime stat above 1 can land you in prison should you be killed. Space is monitored by the various Comm Arrays you see scattered around most planets. It should be noted it is possible to disable a Comm Array so that you can commit crime without being detected or so that your are not tracked if within the local vicinity. I’ll cover this is in detail within a separate guide. It is possible to hack the public record system to remove your crimestat, again I’ll cover this in a separate guide.

Examples of why you might get a crime stat include murder (such as killing friendly security within bunkers, which seems to be the reason why I usually end up with one), destruction of property (blowing up someones ship), smuggling, etc.

How to get out⌗

Like in the real world, you generally need to serve a specific amount of time to get out of prison. You can serve time either in game or out. There are also a couple of game mechanics that will let you reduce your sentence which are:

  • Oxygen Repair Missions
  • Mining

Work Mines⌗

To access the current missions within Klescher you need to enter the work mines. Navigate there from the central concourse area

Klescher Mines
Klescher mines

You also have access to a Commissary machine where you can purchase consumables and the Greycat tools (to be used for mining missions)

Commissary
Commissary

You purchase items from Commissary using credits vs UEC. You earn credits by doing the Oxygen repair missions - perhaps other methods too which I’m not aware of

Oxygen Repair⌗

You can pickup an Oxygen repair mission from your mobiGlass just like the standard missions in the Verse. There is currently only one mission in prison which entails navigating to the specified location and repairing the oxygen machine.

The format of the mission is therefore

  1. Accept the repair mission on your mobiGlass
  2. Navigate to the specified depth within the specified cave
  3. Locate the Oxygen machine
  4. Interact with the machine to repair it

The Oxygen machines can be quite deep within the mines so you might run out of oxygen on route. As you travel through the cave I’d recommend getting a top up oxygen from any machines you pass. You can do this by interacting with each machine. You should see the amount of oxygen available as well as your own levels improving.

Once you accept a mission you will be given a slightly cryptic location such as Repair 1 Kiosk in Route 1 Depth 9. The route is the cave you need to find, and the depth is level you need to get to within the cave.

The first thing you should do is to navigate to the cave system themselves. You should navigate to the central area and then locate the entrance to the work area, which looks like this

Klescher Mines
Klescher mines

Once within the work area you locate the correct cave. You should look out for the sign which looks like this which denotes Mine 01:

Mine entrance
Mine entrance

Navigate into the cave until you reach the desired depth. The depth markers look like this

Level 2
Level 2

Once you are at the correct depth, keep searching until you find the faulty machine

Faulty Machine
Faulty Machine

Interact with the machine to repair it. Once the machine is repaired you will get credits which take a large chunk of time off your sentence via credits

Mining⌗

Nothing beats a bit of hard time to improve you immersion whilst in space prison. You can mine minerals in exchange for the shortening of your sentence.

The format of this activity is as follows

  1. Purchase a Greycat hand mining tool from the commissary machine
  2. Enter the cave system and locate minerals
  3. Mine the minerals and place them in your rucksack
  4. Deposit the minerals at the mineral drop off machine

You Served Your Time⌗

To check how much time you have take a look at the computer terminal in the central area. Once you have served out your sentence you simply need to walk out of prison to leave. Take the exit prison

Leaving Klescher
Leaving Klescher

and then activate the elevator. Once you have pressed the button inside you will wake up in an easy hab within your currently respawn location

Escaping⌗

It is possible to escape from Klescher but I wont cover it here since there are lots of other guides that cover this and I don’t want to spoil your fun