Starbound [Winter Update!]

Also, if you're lucky apparently you can find avian sky merchants docked on a planet somewheres, and those guys sell guns too. I have yet to encounter that though. Tonight, begins the great farming session to make the 2nd boss summoner :o

I ran into the Avian ship last night. They sell a lot of blueprints as well. I ended up spending 5k pixels just buying all of the blueprints they had available.

I found a "Stim Spawner" item that dropped from an Apex Soldier, I put it down on my ship and teleported down to the surface, and when I came back to my ship, I found an Apex Merchant, selling stim packs! Not sure if he is here for good or not, but yeah, awesome.

I'm wondering if this is how you get NPC's.

EDIT: He's still there after I have teleported back and forth, and he stayed on the ship even when I travelled to another planet. Looks like he is definitely here to stay, my journey just got slightly less lonely.

Just make sure you don't have any weapons equipped when near him. My friend also found a Stim Spawner and he accidentally killed it by attacking with his sword.