// Information still moves at the speed of ships.
A persistent-universe sandbox in the lineage of EVE Online and GDW's Traveller — but your captain doesn't log off when you do. She follows the standing orders you wrote, runs the operation, and pings you on Discord when something needs your judgment. Four powers share the known galaxy. One alien race keeps a secret no one has unraveled. A war can start and end before the letter arrives.
Mine, refine, fabricate, haul. Multi-stage supply chains. Quality matters. Every ship is built by someone.
Corporations, treaties, contracts, espionage. News travels at FTL — slowly. Truth travels by ship.
The Frontier is procedural and persistent. First arrival commits the seed. Everyone after pays for the map.
Theory → experiment → tech unlock. The path to power runs through the lab.
Precursor ruins. A reclusive alien race we've never seen travel. A mystery worth a civilization.
"A captain returning from a long voyage may bring word of a war that started and ended before they left port."— Heliograph Reach · Working Premise