No Man’s Sky Permadeath & Data Loss Players for New Yorker Feature

Lost your save? Or died in permadeath? I'd love to hear about it Greetings, travelers! I’m a writer for the New Yorker and longtime player of “No Man’s Sky.” (Here’s the one base I’ve seen fit to post here, through my other account.) I'm working on a project about computers and mortality, which encompasses everything from data loss and recovery to death in video games. And I'd love to hear about your experiences with either misfortune. First, have you ever lost your save due to an accidental button press, corrupted file, physically damaged computer/console, etc? Did you try to get it back? Did you succeed? Second, have you ever died in permadeath mode? In both cases, I’d love to know: How did you feel when you lost your universe? How many hours had you sunk into the game? What did you most hate to lose, e.g., a particular base or ship or multi-tool or system or community that you played with? And did you continue playing immediately? Please share your answers in the comments with as much detail as you'd like. I'll reach out to some of you via DM in the coming weeks to see if you'd like to discuss further. I'd also love to be pointed in the direction of previous threads on this topic or referred to others who have had these experiences. Let me know if you have any questions! This is probably for an article, and maybe also for a book chapter, but I'm at the very beginning of the process so I don't have any specifics. You can see my previous work here—this essay, on the permadeath in ArmageddonMUD, is probably most relevant to what I’m doing now...