Yes, it's almost enough to get you to make a second account for interesting stuff happening in the bubble. I'm still like 50kly+ away as well, got some stuff I still want to do in the Abyss, was originally going to be back in December for the release of FC's, but now they have been delayed it didn't seem to be necessary to head back for a while, then along comes a still inhabited generation ship.....well that's a pain.
Yeah, the issue there is the grind to get everything engineered. Plus I'm not entirely sure how to buy another copy of E

on Steam (my original purchase was from FDev, then I used an Oculus Partner Key to add it to Oculus, then used the Steam Partner Key to add it to steam.)
I have no idea if I have linked my Steam account to my FDev account, because I can run the launcher from Oculus and it logs into my FDev account, and when I run it from Steam it also logs in.
Help ? What's the best way to do this - just buy another copy from FDev's website under a different email address, sign up for an FDev account, and then just log in/out as required on the launcher ?