The Beginning
You begin on a rugged outpost on the arid world of Sukhoy. You have just acquired your first spaceship, a Roschenko Orbiter. Your first task is to mine resources out in the asteroid belt, in order to help supply your impoverished settlement.
However, you could also consider raiding a freighter on a delivery run near Sukhoy. This opportunity represents a higher risk, but the rewards could be infinitely larger.
Opening Mission
You start at a rugged outpost with your mentor. He tells you that your settlement is low on a certain resource and that you need to go mining for it. You leave the planet in search of resource. Talk to your crew mates while you’re travelling or before you leave. Mind you, you aren’t outfitted with weapons by this point.
Option 1 (Mining): You go out into the surrounding asteroid belt and mine for the spice. Once you have collected a certain amount of resource, you are attacked by a rogue ship and forced to escape. You then return to your settlement.
Option 2 (Piracy): Your crew mate tells you that you could steal the resources from someone else. You go and find an immense resource frigate, sneak aboard and start to steal the cargo. Midway through, however, the frigate is attacked and disabled by a rogue ship (the same from option 1). The frigate starts to burn up and break apart, and you have to quickly evacuate and abort from the frigate. You return to your settlement.
Once you return, your Mentor has you trade the resource you collected and teaches you the basic economy. You tell him about the rogue ship, where there could be some info/lore exchange.
Then, suddenly, the rogue ship appears in the planet atmosphere, on course to intercept and destroy your settlement.
Now its bounty hunting time. Go and murder the rogue ship.