Build an industry
in a galaxy that
keeps running.

Time is the currency

Extractors run, refineries consume, research advances, officers train — in real time, whether you are watching or not. You cannot buy your way past any of it, because there is nothing to buy. A structure at level 12 got there by running.

Two-stage industry

Eight raw materials become refined stock, refined stock becomes components, components become hulls. Every step has a structure that does it, twenty-five levels to grow it through, and a bill you have to actually be holding.

Solo-viable by design

Nothing requires a group. But a region built by four people develops faster than the same infrastructure raised by one, and some of what development unlocks nobody reaches alone — the arithmetic rewards company without ever demanding it.

Threat you can lose to

Pirate incursions build in a region and decay on their own. Fights resolve from a stored seed, so an after-action report is a replay you can step through rather than a summary to take on trust — and the ships you lost are gone.

A region is a shared place

• Development is collective. Everything built in a sector raises it for everyone based there — including services nobody could unlock alone.
• Threat is regional. It rises where people are careless and falls on its own. It is not a difficulty slider; it is weather with a cause.
• Fleets travel the lane network. A crossing costs fuel and takes real hours, and where a fleet is at any moment is derived, never guessed.
• Syndicates, contracts and a light market. Enough economy for players to matter to each other, without a trading terminal for a hobby.

What a base actually is

• A body you claimed, with a fixed number of structure slots and a terrain that decides what it is good for.
• Power and population both have to balance before anything new runs.
• Volume, not slots. A hold full of ore is a hold with no room for the components it was going to become.
• Automation you configure, not scripts you write. Supply routes, standing orders and mining loops are part of the game, and the rules ban the alternative.

Industry

• 15 structures, each to level 25, on a body with a fixed number of slots
• 8 raw materials in three tiers, gated by the security band the region sits in
• Refining and fabrication as two distinct stages, each with its own structure
• Volume-limited storage and cargo, so what you hold is a decision
• Production orders that starve honestly when an input runs out
• Staged construction against a bill stored at the price you agreed
• 20 technologies and the blueprints they unlock

Space

• 2,357 systems on a hex field, joined by 2,808 lanes
• Prospecting and survey — a body keeps its contents secret until you look
• 25 hull types, from a scout to a titan, built in stages
• Fleets with fuel, cargo and transit measured in real hours
• 17 terrains, each deciding what a body is good for
• Colonise from the map: pick a system, pick a body, settle it
• Mining loops that keep working a field while you are elsewhere

People

• Syndicates with a shared board, and development you raise together
• Officers who train in real time and cannot be rushed
• Four kinds of contract — courier, trade, mining and security — on a board that refreshes
• Frontier Authority standing, five tiers of it, carried with you rather than per region
• Regional markets with an Authority floor and ceiling, so there is always a price
• Direct mail, contacts and blocking that works retroactively
• Rankings, for the people who want to know

Pressure

• Regional threat that rises where people are careless and decays on its own
• Incursions, patrols and strongholds, each worth a different fight
• Three pirate factions — Drekons, Cinder Reavers, Void-Ascendant — each countered by a different weapon
• After-action reports you can replay, derived from a stored seed
• Repair, salvage and debris — a bad fight leaves something behind
• Supply routes and standing orders, so a siege does not idle your industry