v1.2.5

Additions

• Companions are here: collectible creatures that hatch from eggs, level up and boost your activities. Full details below.
• The social hub can now show each player's companions instead of their ship, and you can like other players' ships and companion showcases: three likes a week, one per player. Clicking the heart again takes the like back.
• Two new weekly rankings for the most liked ships and companions, plus a Companions ranking with the total level of each collection.
• Nine new companion achievements: Egg Hunter, Xenobiologist and Companion Trainer.
• Eggs and companions can now be linked in chat.
• Two new squadron banners, Robot and Turtle, are available in the Battlefield vendor.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the Premium Store sometimes opening empty.
• Fixed the number of days shown when leaving the PvP Arena.
• Fixed the Item booster description: it spends an Anomaly to add an extra bonus to a crafted legendary item, and items from enhanced blueprints do not qualify.

QoL

• The Premium Store list is now grouped into sections.
• Your public profile shows your ship and your three companions in one carousel.
• Space stations built or changed by another squadron member now show up right away.
• Social hub cards no longer overflow on phones.

Companions

Eggs drop from NPC battles, and the enemy type decides the family: eight families of four species, 32 in total. Each egg already shows the species inside, and a long streak without one is compensated automatically. Eggs can be bought and sold for credits in the Market, but companions cannot be traded.

Eggs are hatched with companion points, which build up on their own over time, and your first hatch is free. Points also feed your companions, which level up and evolve twice on the way to the level cap. Spare copies of a species can be merged into another one to speed that up.

Xenobiology. Each family boosts one activity: gathering yield, gathering XP, battling XP, battling credits, crafting XP, crafting scrap, cosmic dust or exploring XP. Every level your companions gain adds to their family's bonus, counting the best copy of each species across your whole collection. It does not apply to dungeons or galaxy bosses.

You can show three companions: a main one, which also floats on your screen and appears on your player card and profile, plus two secondary ones. Dress them with auras, particles, frames, backgrounds and nameplates from the Premium Store, and give them a name of your own. The wiki has all the details.