NPC ships

[Marauding Conan]

Hej fellow engineers:

I finally managed to launch a shuttle and return to the planet. I built a station off the gravity well of the planet to serve as a shipyard in space. However, in space I came across multiple NPCs. 3 of them are red and when I came close to check them out (I am unarmed after all), they fired on my without warning. Also, found a couple freighters identified in white (they were too far for me to check) and I found a pirate mining base inside an asteriod. This one I took apart as the mining droid tried to use me as ore. Now, I have a -1500 reputation with those pirates.

So, my questions are:

1.-Why did the red NPC fired on me?
2.-Why the pirate droid tried to kill me?
3.-What is the deal with reputation?
4.-What is the purpose of the white ships?
5.-Will the white ships fire on me?

Thanks for your help.

[Jukebox]

1 and 2:
The Red faction Space pirates or SPART faction and will be hostile under all circumstances.
They are just there to kill you with everything they have even including mining drones.

3:
Reputation is something that decides whether you are friends(green colour), neutral (white colour) or enemies(red colour) with the faction.

If the reputation goes down too much, the faction becomes hostile (red) and attack on sight.

If it is neutral they will not be hostile and will be trading with you and giving you jobs.

If your reputation goes up enough, the faction becomes friendly and will give you advantages/sales when trading.

With all NPC factions you will begin in neutral state. Only space pirates and space spiders NPC factions will be always hostile.

4:
Neutral factions (all other NPC factions in singleplayer) will not shoot or attack you and may trade with you and give you contracts using their store and contract blocks.

5:
By now I think you already understand that white ships will not kill you :)


(Sorry for the Grammar but I am in kind of hurry)