After clearing a couple of locations I don't like the shooting (I'd like a VATS) but I'm happy you can completely ignore most of the pew pew it seems and focus on surveying planets which can give more xp than shooting 50 generic bandits pirates.
So I landed on the exact north pole of the first planet in Starfield and there was a military base there. But considering how the game works, something different spawns for everybody else?