The endgame for me has always been building an interstellar network of civilizations - which I'm sure you'll get to as well! The ability to plop NPCs into houses was a game-changer and makes for some really fun things to build towards.
I seed the galaxy with little colonies now - some like this one that are basically a bunch of stacked boxes:
and some more like this one:
or this one:
It's super super fun, and I'm excited to see what you get up to when you start seeding the galaxy with your own colonies!
Those are fantastic!! 😃
Unfortunately I won't be getting that far, at least not with this playthrough. I've disabled cloud saves due to my son also using my Steam account on a different device and I've just migrated to a new PC and didn't think to grab my saves before formatting the laptop. 😣 I've got two more pre-written Starbound posts from this little tale and that's the unfortunate end (without a death at least, but that would've made it more interesting, haha).
Oh no! Oh well lol, that happens! At least it's a peaceful ending :P Next time!