An extremely silly question, buut...

[PowerManatee]

How do you stop maintaining ships that are away from a space yard and are out of supplies, with no way to return and is essentially useless? Or is there a way?

It just seems obvious that there should be a way to abandon a ship, but I haven't found it anywhere. Of course scrapping/mothball is disabled, considering the nearest space yard is light years away. I just want to rid myself of these ships.

If there isn't, someone has got to reply with a good reason why
Cause it won't make a lot of sense. Admit it
How silly does it seem if you HAVE to supply a ship with maintanence even though it is totally useless to you? Pretty proposterous to me.

Happy gaming,

[Fyron]

There is no way to arbitrarily stop supporting a ship that is away from a space yard.

If you put a Self Destruct Device on your ship, you can have it blow itself up at will.

If you have another ship around (and in the same sector), you can have it fire on and destroy the target ship.

[Gryphin]

Or, you can Trade it to an ally. That is cruel and taking advantage of the AI but if you are deparate....

[Taz-in-Space]

You can also run the ship into:
1. a Black Hole
2. a damaging storm
3. A damaging Warp point

[Gryphin]

But Taz, that would kill the crew.

[Taera]

Ethical questions huh?