You can open the console with the tilde key (`) by default. Console commands work in any game mode save for multiplayer, but there can be some strangeness sometimes. They were made primarily for internal testing.

Console commands are as follows and they are case sensitive:

givemoney (amount)
-Gives the player cash, can affect your level.

godmode
-Makes the player completely invincible

fastmode/sonic/sanic/gottagofast
-Makes the player go super fast

mapmode
-Reveals all data on the map. Might need to close and reopen the map menu to have this work.

setglobal (global) (value)
-Sets a global variable to a value.

sgts (value)
-Sets the timescale of the game lower, for slo-mo shots.

rt
Resets the time scale to 1.

babymode, neutralmode, hardmode, piratemode
-Sets all factions to be friendly, neutral, or hostile, or merely makes hostile factions nonhostile.

bigheadmode, tinyheadmode
-Guess what this does.

moveplayer (locationID) (optional name)
-Moves the player to the setlocation. Stations are always their names with no spaces (IE Planet Vauldric is planetvauldric). Capitalization is irrelevant.
-For star systems, capitalization does matter and is based off internal IDs, IDs are usually region + a number. IE VA01 = Vauldric System.
-Regions: VA, IJ, BL, MC, UN, UND, AS, JV, IN, TR, GATE, FHD, RHE, PRD
-When using the optional name, you will be moved to the last known object that shares a name. Capitalization is irrelevant here.

randomship
-Gives the player a random ship.

randomloadout
-Gives the player a random loadout. Ignores hardpoint requirements.

randomizemygutstodd
-Gives the player a random ship and loadout.

kill, killall
-Kills the current targeted solar. Killall kills all hostile enemies.

killfull, killforce
-Kills an entity and destroys it even if it’s not meant to (or not able to) be destroyed. Be careful as this can be dangerous.

createstorm (hazard ID)
-Creates a storm in the current system. Hazard IDs do not need to be filled out for this.

createhyperstrom (hazard ID)
-Creates a hyperstrom in the current system. For both of these hazard IDs will override the current hazard, provided it exists within the

overridehazard
-Overrides a hazard in a storm. Generally it’s better to use createstorm or otherwise.

additem (item ID) (amount)
-Adds an item to the player’s inventory. Item IDs forthcoming.

findware (itemID)
-Outputs, if it’s on a station, the first available instance of where a ware is sold.

picksun
-Targets the nearest sun

destroyallstorms
Destroys all storms in the area

campaigndock
Forces the game to allow a solar to be dockable during a campaign mission.

setcampaignstate <stage>
Sets the campaign state to a specific stage.

runaway
Forces an NPC, if it is an NPC, to flee.

wipedata
-Resets all player’s scanned data, for testing.

fillmap
-Adds knowledge of all places to the player.

resetcharacter
Resets the player’s skills.

damagemode
-Sets the players guns (but just their guns) to do many times more damage than most guns normally do. This is a one way street.

startquest (questID)
-Forcibly starts a quest.

advancequest (questID) (queststage)
-Advances a quest to a stage. The quest must be started first.

completequest (questID)
-Forcibly completes a quest, setting it to its end state.