So I start Expedition 2 and spawn as a handsome blue and yellow Vy’keen, out in the middle of nowhere on Tibertant Alpha. All is right with the world- I do some gathering and crafting, then stumble upon a crashed freighter and start ripping open cargo pods for the sweet loot inside.

Four cargo pods later, another player shows up and almost immediately starts shooting at me, knocking me down to 2/3rds health before I could get away- and once I did, they kept following me, shooting at me when I’d use my jetpack too much.

I got a good head start though, running straight up some cliff walls and even stopping to gather from a patch of Indium before reaching my ship, a delightful blue and yellow hauler. I almost completely fix it up- but I’m short some dihydrogen, so I get out and mine a nearby patch, only to get spotted by 3 angry sentinels. Just then, my assailant shows up having followed me over 1,600u, so I hop in my ship, toss in the dihydrogen, and take off.

Looping back around, I spot three angry sentinels firing out laser blasts at my former assailant, so I figured I’d get some revenge with my Photon Cannons, chasing them across a valley before it was reported in text on the screen that they had died in combat from ship fire.

I flew into space immediately, naming my ship “The Immediate Vengeance” and feeling like one very triumphant Vy’keen.

Am I playing this right?

I have completed the Artemis story line, and the Atlas Path.

I have reseted the universe and installed the Star Seed and Remembrance techs.

Now I have 3 main quest:

• New beginnings – (A new galaxy awaits…): If I am correct, basically this is the ending, where you can explore and do whatever you like.
• The space anomaly – (Explore the new reality): I think it is the same as the New beginning. The anomaly’s ending.
• The Atlas Path – (Find the next Atlas Interface): And this is the cause of my confusion. I thought the Atlas Path ends with reseting the universe. If I go to the Atlas Interface, it requires another Heart of the Sun.

So my question is: Should I craft another Heart of the Sun to finally complete the Atlas Path or is it a repeatable quest and I should ignore it?

Still trying to remain unspoiled and just, y’know… Be curious.

So I learned 3 new things just now while I was flying around my freighter and my new frigate buddies. First new thing I learned was you can land on the frigates! How cool is that?! I wandered around a bit and my HUD said “frigate repair.” So I’m guessing, there’s an event that means I need to come repair one of my frigate buddies at some point. There were numerous panels that kinda looked like it would. Alternatively, maybe if I get my frigate buddies into a fight and we win, I’ll have to come fix them up afterwards? I dunno.

Second new thing, was that gravity from a planet we’re “orbiting” will pull you down even if you see whether you can jetpack across space to get from your frigate buddy to your freighter accidentally jump off. Which is a neat little effect I guess. Though, it makes me wonder what would happen if I were to do that in the middle of space, no where near a planet.

Third new thing is that once you get a little ways away from a large ship, your life-support gets drained really fast. Which I wasn’t really expecting! Luckily I had a stash of Life Support Gels and enough carbon and dihydrogen to make more when those ran out that I was able to keep myself alive as I fell onto the planet. I’m just gonna go out on a limb and assume my Exo-suit’s thermal mitigation is, somehow, powerful enough to deal with re-entry friction.

So yeah, that’s 3 new things I learned.