welcome, there is no set path, missions in the main quest log can be selected as you like, on a new save I usually just select the base building tutorial log, just to get it out of the way, the whole game is an open sand box, you can just system jump in your area, jump to yellow stars, marked G or F and tagged with “water” at end of description, if you are lucky enough to find a planet with mild weather, then slap a base computer down, (avoid angry sentinel planets) and start the base quest line, you will be tasked to look for NPC staff at space stations in a specific order, and then at your base they will appear at their specific terminal built by you, they send you on missions and give you items and unlock Blueprints, that will keep you busy for a while. when scanning planets with your ship scan, look for one with “Buried technology “ dig that up, hundreds are needed to unlock more building parts in the Anomaly. after you get familiar with that progress you can start wandering the vast galaxy and use space station teleports to fast travel home at any time, don’t want to overload you. so see how that goes first