It's more based off of luck then anything else... I lasted 5 seconds as my ship was instantly pulled into a gas giant. I played it a few times and eventually started to get items before I came across 5 planets that obliterated me.
The combat was also frequent and long without much reward. I think there's more to this game then I'm seeing as I did come across a battle that had a better AI and it was more maze like, but I couldn't stand getting blown up via random event again.
There is a controls page that I skimmed over on my second playthrough. I thought there might be some form of ingame tutorial that would of started me off.
All in all, I would like this game allot more if it had more features in it that stop random insta-kills and had some form of tutorial at the start.