I am playing it right now, you basically start in your ship and you have to make money. There are tonnes of ways to make money but you need to work your way up to make the most. You can bounty hunt, trade, smuggle illegal goods, do missions for people. Its quite good if you like space games.
Game is utter trash.
Good luck trying to start off anywhere making money or progress because the tutorial is actual almost non existent (since I played). Since I didn't know what to do I basically flew aimlessly trying to accomplish a goal that wasn't there. Go read the steam reviews. There's no story or anything it's devoid of content. At the end of the day it's your buy.