Zotz ! I don ' t see them around much . But they are amazing ! <| sep |> If you are looking for those specs , what about the ThinkPad P 50 U pgradeKingLenovoThinkPadP 50 MobileWorkstationP 50 tel 408 ? Processor Intel Core i 76700 HQ Quad Core Processor , 16 GB RAM , 512 GB SSD , 512 GB HDD , Graphics NVIDIA Quadro M 1000 M 2 GB , Windows 7 ProfessionalIt is durable and it has a very good keyboard . <| sep |> may the sun bless you with incandescence <| sep |> That seems to have been changed since that FAQ went up in 2012 before the game actually was playable due to the things I mentioned above , if that ' s your only source I don ' t really consider it to be relevant to how the game actually ended up . Having a ranking Elite , Dangerous , Harmless , etc is a perk of Federation membership , as it denotes to the Elite pilots what level of missions you ought to be capable of having contracted to you . Since all NPC ' s have a ranking , it stands likely that they are all members of the Pilot ' s Federation .