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681 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes ago
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grad
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I have tow-captured a ghost ship (Eros), how can I give it orders? Why detail panel of the ship is blank?
681 days, 6 hours, 19 minutes ago
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decius
RE: I have tow-captured a ghost ship (Eros), how can I give it...Write Reply
I assume you picked it up from the radiation halo of a star cluster? Are you still in that radiation halo? It could be that the transferred crew is dying on the same turn.

From the help documentation:

"When capturing a ghost ship 10 crew members will be sent over to the other ship to capture it. If the ship is still inside the radiation halo those crew members may be killed. A ship must have at least 20 crew and two engines to capture a ghost ship."

http://planets.nu/#/howtoplay/star-clusters
681 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes ago
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grad
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Yes, picked up from star cluster 3 turns ago, then towed away to a SB and fixed, but ship panel is still blank.
681 days, 5 hours, 29 minutes ago
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decius
RE: I have tow-captured a ghost ship (Eros), how can I give it...Write Reply
Use the CONTACT link at the bottom of this page to ask the admins to look into it. There have been a few reports over the years of a "blank ship bug" related to star clusters.

For example, it's mentioned with HYP ships here:
http://planets.nu/discussion/how-can-a-probe-be-from-unknown-unknown-player-there-is
681 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes ago
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grad
RE: I have tow-captured a ghost ship (Eros), how can I give it...Write Reply
Done. Thanks!
680 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes ago
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glyn
RE: I have tow-captured a ghost ship (Eros), how can I give it...Write Reply
Yep, 'blank ship bug'.

Don't use scripts to try to give it orders to get around the missing panels... it messed up my Sector and I couldn't even get into the Sector without it crashing.

It seems to always be a HYPjumping ship and a Star Cluster Radiation Halo that causes it, possibly the ship was also set to 'gsX' which was one common feature among few occurrences of the bug.