Hitching a Ride

is episode fourteen of The Collector. Splitsie had been playing but not recording, because he had lost his voice. He shows a dramatic silent hurriedly recorded clip how the Porpoise accidentally sinks into the gravity well of Titan and scrapes along the ground while desperately trying to gain height. He assesses the damage to the stern of the ship: Mostly, he lost empty cryopods and a mining ship, things that can be restored.
He ponders possibly setting up safe zones on other planets for more Collection candidates, but is bored having to buy a week's worth of zone chips from NPC trade stations.
At the trade station above the thundering Alien planet, a passing player presents him with a gift of a thousand zone chips. With the zone chips in his inventory, he hides the Porpoise and awaits more players at the space station in his spacesuit. 
Two players arrive who have maglocked two jump ships and an atmo shuttle together; Splitsie laughs when he recognises an LCD picture of crochet plushies that look like Capac and him. Another player arrives with a ship held together by scaffolding and subgrids, followed by a warship, a black concrete ship, a glass-window airlock ship... Soon, the space station's safe zone is full with a dozen peaceful visitors, some of which want to be collected. 
Splitsie hitches a ride on the atmo-capable shuttle, and in case it crashes in high gravity, he plans to HALO jump to protect his valuable inventory. While approaching the Alien lake where he built the base, he is amazed by the amount of red signals and voxel deformations. Six more player ships await him there, and his landing is greeted with fireworks! 
Splitsie unloads gifted Uranium, space credits, and zone chips (enough for 59 days) into the base and invites players to enter the cryopods. He explores the ships and bases the visitors have built around him: a Welcome Center, a Sandwich Emporium, a Freezing Man Camp, cool oldtimers and silly rovers, a statue, and more. He builds an official mail box where players can drop letters and gifts.
Several offline players have been waiting in their own cryopods here. He and the visitors work together and move the inhabited cryopods inside the safe zone.
As he wonders out loud how well this is all going, he and a jetpacking player collide... Splitsie respawns on the Porpoise in orbit and now has to indeed HALO jump back down. The number of players that have been collected increases to 24 in this episode.