It's a big universe out there, and there are other ways to leave the solar system. Several new destinations with new machines, technologies, and unique processes. Fork of metal-and-stars for Factorio 2.1.
The mod metal-and-stars-graphics-2 is not in my fork version. Have you also enabled other mods? Please delete the other mods and install only my fork mod to see whether you can enter the game, because it works fine on my end.
Yeah, I've removed the original and downloaded specifically the fork + the assets. Let me try to do a completely clean install; maybe there are some references stuck.