Sorry, multiple posts, just annoyed.
Look at the generation ships. What an awesome mystery and fun thing to get into.... for about 5 seconds until you realize there's nothing to them other than look at it and listen to some audio. No further goal. No finding some of their crew on a nearby planet and reuinutjng them with the Galaxy. No backstory discovery. Nothing
Entire games/movies are made from expanding on the storyline of an alien virus wiping out a generation ship. But in ED? Nothing.
Frontier seems to be awesome at hinting toward depth, and then purposely avoiding it.
But no atmospheric landings possible yet. This has further to run with ELWs probably, but later of course.