The questions behind the universe.

A multiplayer survival, crafting, exploration, construction, and strategy game with an 8-bit-inspired visual style. Environments include space, atmosphere, land, sea, underwater, and underground.

Unity, for an installed Windows PC game. Consoles are out of scope. Unreal Engine 5 remains only a possible future option; there is no planned migration.

Minecraft, Space Engineers, Stationeers, Subnautica, Elite Dangerous, RimWorld, and the idea of an 8-bit EVE Online. These references describe selected gameplay influences, not wholesale adoption of their systems.

One shared, persistent galaxy.

64 concurrent human players per region, reduced from the earlier provisional 200–256. Eight people aboard one ship count as eight players. NPC and ship limits remain open. The target is not a demonstrated server capacity.

Exploration reaches the Milky Way’s centre and extends in every direction. The working scope is the entire Milky Way; exact boundaries and scale remain open.

Real astronomical data where available, supplemented by procedural generation for unobserved details.

The accepted starting direction is fully 3D towns, including the first playable town, with town combat and building destruction allowed. Exploration outside towns is first-person 3D; vehicle interiors allow 3D exploration.

They are retained as an experiment, potentially in a compact market street. The earlier concept used 3D approaches, a transition into 2D on leaving a ship at a spaceport or accepting a town-boundary prompt, cardinal-direction intersection signs, and clickable doors into 3D interiors. These are no longer mandatory first-town requirements.

Yes: space-to-surface flight has no loading screen. Interior transitions remain to be settled following the town-design change.

Visible cubic blocks, pixelated textures, square excavation edges, and stepped surfaces. Players can dig into worlds and reshape terrain.

That restriction is temporarily removed. A frame around the game view for controls and information remains possible.

Preset stations, cities, towns, or planetary wilderness locations. Equipment depends on the chosen starting location or background.

No. Mining, farming, production, local trade, a floating sky island, or an underwater base and laboratory can form an enduring way to play.

Yes. A player may mine, build, and produce indefinitely, eventually establishing a spaceport selling fuel, produce, and other goods without personally travelling into space.

One route is hauling cargo for a player-owned or NPC-owned business. Players may also work aboard NPC ships, carrying out their department’s tasks during voyages.

Mineral and element deposits on both planets and asteroids are finite. Wrecks can be salvaged and structures recycled into reusable materials.

Players build their initial means of production by hand using their tools. Craftable bots can assist from blueprints or layout plans; bot limits remain open.

New infrastructure must be physically established using the character’s labour and tools. Capturing a world with existing production provides another route.

Piece by piece: hull sections, rooms, engines, and machinery. Shipwright factories produce better ships.

Shields stop or lessen incoming damage. Both ship-wide integrity and local material strength determine resistance to destruction. Reinforced sections may use different materials, and affixed armour plates ablate—vaporise—when damaged.

A generator produces a fictional coherence field, described through atomic or quantum links between attached molecules. It reinforces cohesion, helping contain damage around the hit instead of allowing widespread explosive shattering.

Coherence immediately starts declining by percentages towards zero. The decay rate is undecided.

Hits penetrating the shields can cause local explosive decompression, entry-and-exit hull breaches, and possible shearing or severing of the ship at the damaged section. These outcomes are possible, not automatic.

Yes. Sealed bulkheads contain decompression and allow undamaged compartments to remain habitable.

Required monitoring and control, with less granularity than Briana associates with Space Engineers or Stationeers. Barotrauma is a tentative reference.

Monitor compartment oxygen, pressure, flooding, and life-support power. Operate bulkheads, ventilation, pumps, and repairs. Working equipment maintains safe routine conditions; damage, power failure, or exceeded capacity requires attention.

Engineering and other STEM-related tasks, tests, and experiments. These activities build experience towards skills, abilities, crafting, and related unlocks.

Yes. Specialisation develops naturally from work performed. Specialists reach higher ratings faster than generalists; numerical progression rules remain open.

Yes. Multiple FTL methods are intended. Early long voyages provide scientific and engineering work; better ships, automation, teammates, and NPCs allow other activities or AFK time.

NPC commanders follow standing instructions and can receive new orders through hyperspace communications. Messages have a noticeable delay that increases with distance.

Everything, including travel, factories, research, and NPC crews. The character’s body stays physically present.

No. Ships, bases, and territory can be attacked, captured, or destroyed. Safety comes from hiding or sheltering on a planet with actual defences.

Offline characters automatically use available food, water, and life-support supplies. Players must arrange backup care or supplies when these are limited.

Yes, including when no human traders are nearby. This traffic supports trade, piracy, and employment aboard ships.

Yes. Businesses depend on actual goods and production; shortages can interrupt routes.

Fleet command, world and station control, taxation, production, mining, and fleet combat. Building an empire is one available path, not a required endgame.

Yes. Fictional mechanics include violence, bribery, and addiction-based dependency. Submission may yield taxes and resources, but damage and poor population conditions reduce output. Rebuilding and pacification matter; excessive extraction can undermine even the conqueror’s food supply.

A shipment containing fictional drugs may lead to an NPC intermediary and improved negotiations or faction standing if successful.

Interplanetary patrols, where present, can discover contraband. Planetside shipment inspections also carry consequences beyond a warning. Specific penalties have not been selected.

Assess the likelihood of life and generate ecosystems and species. Existing species may come from a database; the preferred direction is fresh game-AI-generated creatures, categorised by characteristics and canonised into a shared server database for use elsewhere.

Low-tech overharvesting can cause local extinction. Advanced science offers methods to prevent such outcomes and supplement ordinary agriculture.

Advanced botany is researched through an extensive technology tree. Exact benefits, prerequisites, and implementation remain open. The illustrative numbered technology levels used earlier are not adopted.

Yes. Each player must designate an inheritor: their own connected second account, another player, or a faction. Personally earned skills and experience do not pass to the inheritor.

Yes. Several preservation methods can keep the body alive until medical help arrives. They do not prevent death from weather, other environmental hazards, predators, or players.

After receiving the death notice through ordinary communication channels, its NPCs or players travel to the deceased character’s capital planet, submit credentials, and take ownership. Notification delays and travel matter.

A scrambled beacon transmits, with its code passed to the inheritor for recovery. Pirates can locate these frequencies and trace their source.

The individual character or an object’s computer core. Briana’s final clarification explicitly broadens cores beyond ships to any applicable object.

Through associated tools and systems such as medical bots, construction bots, and fabricating labs. A core is removable and portable; losing it means losing access to its skills.

No. Every core is trained individually. Training and selling cores is a livelihood. An exploration or research core’s knowledge may be worth more than the vessel’s material cargo.

Security must first be overcome. Briana described a “request event”, unless prior quests have already provided unlocking tools. That term and its precise flow remain open.

Yes, to another module or a cybernetic wetware implant. Transferring or “downloading” a skill removes it from the source. It is a move, not a copy.

Yes. Removing one removes access to its provided skill.

No. It grants no personal experience in that skill. This prevents core-sharing shortcuts and preserves the economic distinction between personal learning and individually trained core skills.

The server-confirmed breaker receives it directly. A full prototype pack creates an overflow cube, collected manually with E within three metres. Capacity is currently 16 total items; these pickup details are prototype defaults.

The server collects candidates over a 10 ms receipt-time window and randomly selects a valid candidate when resolving it. Only the successful placement consumes a block. This does not equalize network latency or prove exact client-click timing.

The bounded terrain edits, resource drops and named inventories are saved together. Locations, offline bodies, factories and ongoing voyages are not part of this implementation.

No. 9 March 2027 is a conditional planning target. The readiness review, cost model and explicit launch approval remain outstanding.