After the player starts the Watchtower Arrays profile tracking and reaches a certain threshold, as well as knows about Starborn (by being on a Unity-jumped character or completing "In Their Footsteps"), this quest will begin by speaking to Torin.
If the player reaches a major city before speaking to Torin, a small quest Message From a Friend will trigger a courier to approach and start things that way.
Torin tells the player about Spacers having captured a Watchtower database, and gives the player an objective to head there to get access.
On approach to the star station, the player will find a lot of hostile ships. After defeating them, the player will have an objective to board the station.
Inside the station, the player will need to fight their way through to an end area where the last few Spacers will not be immediately hostile. Upon approaching this last group, a conversation will start with a Spacer boss. This conversation will have a variety of options to get access to the ship which holds the database. Alternatively, the player can just kill the remaining Spacers and ignore the conversation.
After gaining access to the ship, Torin will access the database and tell the player what they found. They will then offer the player a ride back to Stardock, or tell the player to meet him there if they decline the ride.
Taking the ride will do a bit of a time skip; after Torin grav jumps, the next scene will start in the Foyer outside of the player’s Stardock apartment (see Evolving Star Station section for explanation of apartment). Otherwise, the player will have an objective to meet Torin at that same location; arriving there will trigger the same scene.
During this scene, Torin will describe his backstory and warn the player that Watchtower is planning on striking unless they strike first and that the player should do everything to prepare.
Going forward, Torin will have a dialogue option added for the player to initiate the final quest and deal with Watchtower.