Maybe, when you create a character, you have an option to choose if you want to play a certain mode, such as survival which is what we have right now, or a adventure/story mode in which you live your character's adventure stealing a ship and escaping or trying to find a perfect world, or maybe completing quests for a planet's king to befriend them, we could also have story changing decisions like kill this guy or not, which may change how a different NPC treats you. Being able to see you characters origin would be cool, but having more of an adventure RPG aspect to this game would really make a difference in my mind, what do you guys think?
I think this could be simultaneously built-in in the current line. You either do your story or be a pirate. I think having less restrains is better then choosing on start what you want to do. Probably many people don't know what they want to be before they started being it (like me).