Just beat it, the ending is meh. Kinda wish I made a mechinator beforehand so I could go destroy mechs forever route and just make a flying burn box for the rest of the run. It definitely has a lot more content than anything besides maybe biotech, still wish they could have figured out a way for space combat even if it were to be a janky version of boarding each others ships mid flight.

I also went far to long not realizing you could rotate your ship prior to landing