Or a trading grind, depending on your playstyle. I’ve barely ever mined in it.
How are they doing on the campaign/storyline, BTW? Last time I played it (a year or so ago) I managed to capture a jump drive and explored a bunch of really interesting areas outside human space, but it really felt like I wasn’t intended to be there yet and the story wasn’t really ready for it.
No, I was following the human space campaign just fine (although maybe I didn’t go far enough along it for it to take me to alien space “naturally”).
I’ve also picked up at least one non-randomly-generated quest from the
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Hai, namely, the one where you get the Anomalocaris.
I’ve also made it
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through the Tangled Shroud to Avgi space, and maybe I’m legitimately on their main questline there (as I currently have a job marker for “Meet up with the Avgi Strike force at Navigeo Yards in the Symphony system” on my map)
It’s just that those last two things I mentioned, especially the latter one, don’t feel all that fleshed out compared to the human campaign.
I’ve wandered through the territories of a couple of other species, but they’re either hostile or I haven’t figured out how to talk to them yet.