You can also retire a character and in doing so rename on of its items and save it so it will show up in future games and your friends' games. If you lose by getting your character captured, people on your friend list may get a mission to rescue it and then get that character and its items(if I understood how it works right). Some of your stuff can be found by your friends. You unlock more items and more modifiers for the items in stores by taking over stations belonging to other factions.
Weapons and gadgets can have certain modifiers making them more powerful/interesting. Time slows down when enemies spot you and you can dodge bullets.
You can pause the game at any time to quickly and accurately chain actions like dashing to an enemy to stab him followed by throwing the sword at another guy. It is a roguelite game, you pick one the random characters offered to you and then take on missions that involve boarding a ship and completing an objective through stealth and/or violence and/or destruction. It would be best described as some sort of hybrid between Hotline Miami and Superhot in space. A new game on steam caught my eye today, Heat Signature.