There are times that plot, whimsy, or other necessity takes you off the ship and out into unknown Frontiers. For that, you’ll need the Shuttle, a team, and the right gear.

Renting the Shuttle is covered elsewhere, but we’ll cover what happens on/during Away Missions here.

The first thing you’ll do once you book your Shuttle for the Away Mission is to have all members of your away team join the Flight Lobby. Once that’s done, you should report to Command to perform your Proximity Scanning. Lastly, you’ll choose your Landing Zone.

Landing Zones are areas of interest on a Frontier the Proximity Scanning Probe has identified as valuable. These locations can be populated or unpopulated, material rich, deadly, or any combination of the above. 

From an out-of-game perspective, these are ‘choose your own adventure’ mods. We provide a series of locations that adhere to different player play styles and you can select which you’d like to experience. There are mining operations that have no enemies, full combat zones, places fit for a horror movie set, and sometimes even other ships! The description of the LZ will give you an idea of what to expect when there. We can’t guarantee it will always be exactly what you think, but you’ll get a feel for things as you do more of them.