Here are the 8 tips to help you along in the beginning of the game.
1. First things first, upgrade the Captain's levels
2. Level up the Captain, Crew and Starship levels in increments of 20. Attack damage doubles for every 20 levels.
3. Always explore constellations. Each time a constellation is rescued all attack damage is increased by 100%
4. Learn new Captain skill with star stones acquired from constellation travels.
5. Upgrade Hyper Cores with warp stones acquired from warping to Earth.
6. Acquire new Starships for faster constellation travel.
7 Collect Gems and buy new Captain and Crew skins to double all attack damage.
8. Unlock power star weapons and maximize the Captain’s battle capability.
For details, [see FAQs].