We live in a sphere of civilization. When we go out there why must we come home?

[Siigari]

So I'm getting into surveying and exploration. As of current, there are no mechanics to explore the great beyond and settle. Why not?

 

[Tempered]

It is my understanding from the dev documents that the idea is this: Explorers chart new systems discovering resources and habitable planets, miners arrive to exploit the resources, after some unknown time or quantity of players goes through the system a new outpost or station will be put there.