Creating new character and choosing to start near friend who is in Sovereign planet gets game into wait mode.
I don’t know is this Triacus III and Sovereign planet finalized which could be reason that I can’t pick it as location.
Game “stucks” on this using Esc allows to get back to choose starting planet again but legend on bottom is not easy to see (I can’t be only one who often forgets to check it). Maybe add button to go back & some kind of timeout for this.
Screenshot of where it stops: