Christmas Stars

A yearly event, Christmas Stars spawn between 24th December 000000 UTC to 25th December 235959 UTC.

Christmas Stars only spawn on unoccupied space fuel tiles (meaning there is no planet, starbase, building, wreck, worm/x/y-hole on the tile), and not in the Pardus sector.
Christmas Stars change locations frequently, so don't waste too many action points searching for them - instead just look at the Nav screen from time to time.

Clicking on a Christmas Star results in a bonus being gifted to the player.

These are possible gifts:

Player Bonuses
Advanced skill - permanently learning a new Priming Skill or Effective Skill
Competency - boost to competency
Experience Points - certain amount of Experience Points
Popularity - boost to popularity on a specific planet
Skills - (conditions attached - observed only for new/younger pilots, possibly below a certain skill threshold)
Trophy Points
x2 AP regeneration - next 48 hours


Ship/Equipment/Crew/Orbiter Bonuses
Crew members - usually at much lower pay than normal, almost always same race as you
Leech - acceleration of current leech's repair rate
Paint - includes chance of getting your own current paint. This is temporary.
Pardus armour - temporary


Goods/Credits
Bodypart (various)
Credits
Drug
Exotic Crystal
Feral Egg
Glitter
Leech baby
Neural Stimulator
Slaves
Stim Chip (various)
X-993 Repair Drone