Introduction and idea

There are a couple of quick start guides available on the forum that might help. There is also a link to a Steam PC guide which is helpful.

Don't feel bad...I literally took MONTHS or more to learn some basic stuff. Like the fact that battlestations sell stuff (now with a shopping cart sign) which is kind of important. And you can reject a mission and another one shows up. And things drop in space that you can pick up (now alleviated with the ! sign).
And so on.