Yeah, lift off is quite something in VR.
I got the Normandy thing done. The ‘visit 10 systems’ is the last grind bit of it. Quick tip, once you’re all done and have the Myth Becon, DO NOT try to fly/warp to the place where you have to finish the quest. It will take you forever. Go to a space station and use a warp gate as you’ll definitely have visited it in the past. IIRC, the system in you need to get is called ‘Dopperi VII’, or something very similar.
The end ‘cinematic’ is quite nice, but has been somewhat spoiled by the NMS community building bases all over the area, so it looks less like a peaceful memorial garden and more like an abandoned theme park. But you get the thing and you get a nice flypast.
The Normandy frigate in game terms is a bit of a beast. It’s got ‘S Class’ stats with this hybrid combat/exploration config, although they call it ‘recon’ in the interface, which IIRC is not a class that has existed before now.
Once you’ve earned it in the expedition mode, you can then go to the cosmetics vendor in The Nexus and unlock it in any other save game for free, along with a few of the other rewards. I got the ‘renegade’ rather than ‘paragon’ banner, not entirely sure why.
Anyway, rather fun all in, although NMS PS5 right now seems rather crashy. Wonder what else they’ve got up their sleeves, if anything…