Your choices show on your ship

Shattered Rift now tracks how you play. Civilian haulers cross many worlds, and you can raid them for their cargo, but every raid pulls you toward the enemy you came to fight. Your gold hull drains, cold enemy thorns grow across it, and locals start refusing to trade with you. Push it all the way and enemy fighters fly as your escort.

The first screenshot shows the ship untouched at 0% corruption. The second shows the same ship at 100%, covered in enemy thorns.