The expedition had its moments.  It was, in its way, a nice change of pace and it felt good to have some goals.  I would certainly do more such events, having done this one. But really, after a week making mistakes and figuring things out, when you finally get to the end… you kind of want to get paid.

I’ve seen a couple of guides to this, and some annoying, over-long videos on YouTube, none of which were quite satisfying.  So I thought I would write my own semi-guide, if only so I can reference it at a later date.

Anyway, the mechanics are not tough.

First up, you have to, you know, finish all the required tasks for each phase of the expedition.  Once done, you then need to claim the overall reward for finishing up.

Click on the big sticker to wrap things up

You then get a notice that your expedition is complete and that you need to head on back to the space anomaly.

Seriously, the expedition is now complete

You know how to get there, because if you don’t how did you even get going on the expedition… which is where ever you are in any case.

Heading into the anomaly

Once there you get yourself back to the expedition terminal where you started from.

The expedition terminal

There, if you have failed to collect any of the phase or final rewards, it will tell you that you need to do so.  Otherwise, there is a big “End Expedition” button and that same range of empty slots, this time to carry stuff back to your main save.

There is a limit to what you can bring back.  I chose all the best multi-tool upgrades, which I extracted from the multi-tool and popped into the upper slots and then generally valuable stuff that I shoved into the lower slots.

My pile of stuff to carry back

The window will hold your current state, so if you need to leave to unfit another mod or whatever, you can do so and not have to start over.

I did not fret much over getting exactly the right stuff in there as I had read that you get cashed out for whatever remains.  Once set, I clicked the button.

Here is where you exit the expedition for good

This being a big step, you do at least get an “are you sure?” prompt before it goes ahead.

Seriously, you wanna do this?

I was ready to go, so I clicked “accept” and then the big payout begins.

You get a scrolling window that accounts for most everything you left behind.  Honestly, I wish I could get a text save of the whole thing.  But at the end you get some totals which, for me, indicated that the whole expedition was quite a profitable venture.

The payout totaled up

I went into the expedition with about 30 million units, so to come out with almost 31 million additional units… doubled my money.  (Though I am admittedly a bit of a poor given the prices of some things in stations, but that is another story.)

So the main payout was done and I was dropped back into my main save on a station with my old corvette.

Back to my per-expedition corvette

But you’re not done yet.  You then have to go back to the anomaly and the expedition terminal to then withdraw all the stuff you stashed in the window there.

Transferring stuff out

You will also want to go around the corner to the vendor that lets you redeem expedition rewards on all your saves. He is just around to the right from the expedition terminal.

The rewards guy

I know this guy because he also doles out your Twitch drops… and I love me some Twitch drops.

I have a lot of Twitch drops here…

The expedition rewards then get saved to your character.  Those that you can create are in your build options, those that are items in your inventory.  I couldn’t grab the mecha mouse companion because… my companion slots are full.  I need to figure that out.  But I was able to grab most everything else.

You can also go back around to the expedition terminal and create a main save copy of your corvette and your multi-tool.  It isn’t free.  It will cost you in nanites to get the copy to your main save.

2,800 nanites to copy Wise Hitachi

I ended up doing so because I had, at the last minute, stuck some corvette modules I wanted to move over onto the ship. (The ship name was a corruption of a Perry Bible Fellowship comic.  It seemed funny at the time.)

My multi-tool in the expedition was fine… love me some day-glo colors… but what made it useful were the upgrade, which I pulled over on their own.  My main save multi-tool… my original which I have just upgraded… now has the scatter gun and related upgrades.  That seemed to kill sentinels at close range pretty well.  Anything that makes dealing with sentinels easier is good for me.

Copying the ship over cost me 2,800 nanites, a princely sum for pre-expedition me.  But having come back from it with 9K more nanites I was feeling flush.

Wise Hitachi now on my main save

I probably won’t keep the ship as it is, but will use the pieces I stuck onto it to build something new.

And then… I was back in the Euclid galaxy, back in my old ship, and back to the main thread of the game with one expedition under my belt.

One expedition done

The expedition was a really a nice diversion for a few days.  It was not onerous and problems I had, like losing my Echo Locator, were on me for not paying attention.  As I said at the top, having some immediate goals… ever the problem in open world, survival games… guiding me was a good feeling.  I will definitely be on the look out for future expeditions.  I understand they occasionally replay old ones, so I will be on the look out.

And all the money… that was nice as well.