


We go and power said gateway and you are teleported to The Outpost, a hub of sorts. You go and find 20 Core Fragments, which are volatile materials used for crafting explosives or powering things, like Ancient Gateways.

The player is then able to do their own thing, maybe on the lines of what we did, which was fool around like an idiot until we figured out what we were meant to do. The player made it out with a few medical supplies, the broadsword, and your life. Earth is now destroyed, and you are the only survivor of the attack. Then you run to a spaceship and fly it off Earth as it is destroyed completely, you’re knocked unconscious and your ship is damaged from the unprepared takeoff. You then get to play through your dying earth, running through the place as it’s coming apart, breaking dirt and sod blocks that are in your way, and getting the Broken Broadsword, your first weapon. They end up leaving a valuable tool for the player, a Matter Manipulator which is used for things like breaking materials. Then large squid-like tentacles rip apart the place and attack the current Great Protector, killing them. You then go to the graduation ceremony, and after a speech, the room shakes. Another group, the Peacekeepers, were a branched off group of Protectorate that was more for fighting intergalactic crime together. The Protectorate was an intergalactical peace group with the idea in mind of uniting the several races and having peace. You learn the controls and walk out of the room, grabbing your Protectorate Uniform from your locker. The game begins with you waking up in a bunk bed, presumably in a school of sorts. Each race has its own type of culture or “personality”, the Florans being carnivorous and primitive, or the Apexes being intelligent but rude. You play as a customizable avatar of one of several intelligent races. The goal of the game is to survive and progress. Starbound is an action-adventure, survival game, taking place in space.
