I got close to a bunch of sparkles, accidentally touched something and got contacted by a fish in a tank telling me they wanted to figure out faster than light speed telepathy and other things, and long story short I have been thrown across several sectors in some sort of warp rift and have now been paid a few hundred thousand of the fish's captors' credits so I can buy a suicide ship full of antimatter batteries or something.
11/10, game is complete bonkers and I haven't the faintest fuckin' idea what I'm doing, what I'm SUPPOSED to do, how to progress half the tutorials and this is my fourth start.
Found a shipyard that sells capital ships, I think. Although I think you can't outright -buy- ships as much as you create orders and they build them on demand? I think... it's time I just mapped out a few sectors or something. It seems to be the only reasonable path forwards.