How to Play

A quick guide to get your first ship flying, trading, and fighting.

The Game Screen

The main game screen is split into three columns:

• Left column — movement controls, directional pad, jump button, docking, and your scan tool.
• Centre column — auto-navigation panel, your current sector details, mining widget, and items floating in space.
• Right column — your ship stats (shields, armour, fuel, cargo) and any ships detected nearby.

You can also use keyboard shortcuts: arrow keys to move, M to auto-navigate, J to jump, D to dock, U to undock.

Moving Your Ship

The galaxy is a grid of sectors within star systems. Each move costs fuel and triggers a cooldown — you must wait before moving again.

• Use the directional pad (or arrow keys) to move one sector at a time.
• Use Jump to leap to a connected star system via a jump node sector.
• Use Auto-Navigation to plot a multi-sector route — the ship moves automatically each cooldown tick.

Sector Types

Every sector in a star system has a type that determines what you can do there and how hard it is to traverse.

Mining Resources

When your ship is in an Asteroid Field or Nebula, the mining widget appears in the centre column.

1. Navigate to an asteroid field or nebula sector.
2. Click Mine. Each mine attempt uses one turn.
3. Resources are added to your cargo hold. Rarer minerals yield higher credits when sold.

Each ship has a resource rate stat that determines how much you mine per action. Mining ships have a higher resource rate than combat ships.

Trading at Stations

Space stations are located within star systems. You must dock at a station to trade.

1. Navigate to the sector containing the station.
2. Click Dock (or press D).
3. Open the Marketplace tab to buy or sell commodities.
4. Visit the Shipyard tab to buy ships, weapons, and upgrades.
5. Click Undock when done.

Prices are dynamic — each station adjusts what it pays and charges based on its current stock levels.

Stations are also producers: they consume raw inputs (bought from players) to manufacture finished goods (sold to players). Keeping a station stocked with the materials it needs keeps prices stable and goods flowing.

Goods & Tiers

Every resource and commodity belongs to one of four production tiers. Higher-tier goods are worth more but require more steps — and more coordination — to bring to market.

Station Types

There are eleven station types across the galaxy. Each specialises in particular goods — the Marketplace tab shows what a docked station currently stocks and what it will buy from you.

Supply Chain

Follow the flow from raw materials to finished goods. Mine Tier 0 resources, deliver them to processing stations to create Tier 1 intermediates, haul those to manufacturing stations for Tier 2 commodities, and finally supply the Shipyard to produce the highest-value goods in the game.

Combat

Combat is turn-based and initiated when you attack another ship in your sector.

1. Scan your sector to detect nearby ships (use the scan widget or the S key).
2. Select a target ship and click Attack to begin an engagement.
3. In the combat screen, click Fire Salvo to fire all your active weapons at once.
4. Damage hits shields first, then armour. When armour reaches zero, the ship is destroyed.
5. Combat ends when one ship is destroyed or both ships disengage.

Ships & Upgrades

Each ship class has a fixed set of stats. Dock at a station's Shipyard to:

• Purchase a new ship hull — different ships specialise in combat, trading, or mining.
• Buy and equip weapons (limited by weapon slots and weapon size on your hull).
• Install upgrades that boost specific stats like shield regeneration, armour, targeting, or cargo space.
• Purchase equipment for special abilities.

Turns & Cooldowns

Every action — moving, mining, firing — costs a turn and triggers a cooldown timer. You cannot act again until the cooldown expires.

• The cooldown bar is shown at the top of the movement controls. Actions are disabled until it empties.
• Your ship's speed stat determines how long each cooldown lasts. Faster ships act more frequently.
• Turns replenish over real time, so log back in later if you've run low.