Eh guys what's the 'general' quest progression supposed to be like?

I managed to get the 20 shards thing n power up the teleporter to go 2nd planet / town.

Then on the town accepted a quest to kill penguins and got owned big time by the ufo.

So am I supposed to go back to original planet and continue uh ... mining?

lol only on the 2nd or 3rd one. I just repaired my ship and then the quest ask me to go find some floreans and scan their artifacts or something.