If you do, try the demo of
Darkstar One. Look in the latest news section for the download links.
It amounts to the sequal to Elite that never happened. There is a story but you don't have to follow it if you don't want to. You can smuggle, pirate, run escort missions, trade, etc etc. All pretty cool. Thankfully you don't have to dock with annoying rotating space stations this time, they stay flat.
Full thing is out in august apparently.