In a new post on the Elite Dangerous forums, Frontier has now shed a little more light on settlements, responding to questions posed by the community.
Odyssey’s settlements, you might recall, are dustbowl-like havens for NPCs belonging to that system’s dominant faction and are found on the surface of certain planets and moons.
The developer also notes that settlements can exist in a number of states: Active, Abandoned, War, Damaged, Online, Online Damaged, Offline, Offline Damaged, and Conflict Zone.
Expect more details as Odyssey’s late spring launch on PC approaches.