Locke ' s a kleptomaniac , and they also steal to show it to those rich folk . It ' s part of their religion , the Crooked Warden . <| sep |> So if he flew in the opposite direction he might have gone forward in time and slammed right into the USS Enterprise just as they got back to Earth to steal some whales ? <| sep |> Yeah I ' ve encountered it many times myself and it can pretty much end your game if they all explode right next to you . I ' ve also noticed the NPCs are destroying them way more often now , or it could be just the mines glitching out before they reach them . I ' ve also noticed sometimes the mines will just freeze a metre or so before the NPC and not detonate . This then stuffs up the cooldowns because you can ' t destroy the mine until it times out .