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7. You Get Credits For Cataloguing Everything

So the progression is routed in incrementally upgrading everything: Your suit, your ship, your jetpack, your weapons - you do this by amassing all sorts of elements from the custom periodic table Hello Games have designed.

Alongside said elements (called Resources) you'll need a hefty amount of space bucks (Units) to purchase everything, which you get given - if you've taken the Atlas path - by uploading data based on EVERYTHING you've seen.

Creatures, plant life, rocks, minerals - just zoom in and it'll catalogue to your personal archive of info. Then, after a good day's exploration, you pop open the main menu and 'upload' your findings to Atlas' galaxy-spanning server.

This rewards you with Units, which can then be funnelled back into every other aspect of your various upgrade trees. Simple.