... Kylie finished putting out the fires and fixing up the ship again. She sat down on the snow nearby, looked up at the stars and thought, "Where next?"

This was a celebration piece for the perma-death No Man's Sky milestone that I completed at the start of 2023. Went far outside the comfort zone on this one, so some details I wanted to include like the ship itself and the jet-pack had to be omitted in the name of ever finishing.

The helmet, however, is an intentional omission, and entirely valid given that no one else in the NMS universe wears one even when the world is made out of radiation.