I played for 25 hours so far!

Hi guys!

So someone told me this game is great well.. I bought it. And now I’m sucked in for 25 hours so far. The only thing though.. I feel like I’m not getting anywhere?

Is this game extremely slow paced or maybe I just don’t know what the hell I’m doing?

Doing some missions.. flying through some galaxies.. sometimes finding random crap on planets and killing some drones.

What should I do to feel like I’m actually making progress? If there is any?

Or should I just take it like laid back and don’t care?