From today you can now set the starting vehicle and the starting situation when the game starts.
As before, you can set the starting System (Sol System, Earth and Moon, EArth Only) via dropdown. This option is currently available temporarily to allow players with lower spec GPUs still be able to run the game for now.
But now you can also select which vehicle the game will start controlling as well as that vehicle's starting situation.
For now the starting vehicle selection excludes the existing EVA kittens from the list, this is because spawning them on the ground right now is not really of any value, given they still can't walk or do anything else on the ground yet.
The selected values persist between startups and will reset if you have a saved selection that isn't valid (eg: a start on the Moon but you change the system to Earth Only as an example).
Of course, all of this is still temporary. Eventually the game startup will change to support loading save games and creating new games. But for now, this is a big step towards proving out our underlying Architecture's ability to spawn vehicles in any situation and location.