THIS IS A FIX FOR STARTUP CRASH
Right click on the game in your steam libary, and go prefrences. Then deleate the folder called players. Then go into the assets folder and get rid of the item named universe. Close that then go back to starbound in your steam library, right click then go prefrences again. Click on verify game cashe and it should get players back and leave universe removed..... When you launch it next, You will have a loading screen that will come up for about 30 sec.... just wait it out and it should work. ADD ME IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE