Visibility is the battlefield
Sensors, stealth, and cloak decide what you can safely order. First contact is a mechanic, not a screen filter — and when neither fleet has contact, you both commit blind.
Features
Visibility is the battlefield
What the game actually asks of you — and a combat loop where every decision comes home with you.
Planned scope
- 16–18h
- Hours in the campaign
- 55
- Ship hulls to fit and refit
- 10
- Factions — and one we won't name
- 1
- Fleet. No empire to manage.
Why you will love it
Why you'll take the jump
The drama stays focused on one fleet, its officers, and the battles that decide whether anyone gets home.
Every battle leaves a dent
Wrecked hulls, captured prizes, wounded officers, and hard-won salvage all fold back into the campaign. Your fleet carries its scars home.
Ships are doctrine, modules, and crew
Strip a hull, fit whatever you salvaged, and it becomes a doctrine. Fifty-five hulls and a deep bench of reactors, drives, weapons and magazines — and never enough of the one module you actually need.
A lost-fleet story with cosmic stakes
The Mori are the rival you fight. They are not the reason parts of this galaxy are empty. Something else is out here, and it does not answer hails.
The combat
Chess in space, played one fleet at a time
Turn-based fleet battles on a 3D hex grid. You commit your orders, the battle resolves, and you live with the position you created. No twitch, no hidden dice.
Seeing first beats shooting first
Sensors, stealth, and cloak decide who can see whom. When neither fleet has contact, both sides commit their turn blind. Information is the first weapon you fight with.
Commit, then live with it
Plan a whole turn, lock it in, watch it play out. There is no APM pressure and no take-backs. The skill is in the decision, not the click speed.
Facing and arcs are real
You maneuver in three dimensions. Bring heavies broadside, kite with skirmishers, screen with point-defense — or get caught out of arc and pay for it.
It plays like chess because the commitment is the point: you declare a turn, it resolves, and the position you made is the position you have. Every battle saves as a replay you can scrub, share, and study. Head-to-head ranked ladders — scored like chess, right down to the Elo — are a track we open after the campaign. See the multiplayer & ranked plan →
The loop
Four steps, one fleet, no resets
Every battle folds back into the campaign. Ships come home scarred, officers do not always come home at all, and the longer you linger in one place, the more certain it is that something noticed you.
- 01
Choose the next jump
Routes spend resources and reveal pressure. Holding position is only safe while supplies last — and lingering draws the wrong kind of attention.
- 02
Fit ships from scarce inventory
Salvage is finite and the good modules never turn up in pairs. Armour or a better reactor, more guns or the fuel to reach the next system — every fit is a bet on the fight you have not seen yet.
- 03
Fight deterministic 3D fleet battles
Commit move and fire orders under visibility limits, weapon arcs, shield pressure, subsystem damage, and enemy AI doctrine.
- 04
Bring the consequences home
Salvage, prize ships, officer wounds, and battle outcomes become the next campaign problem. Nothing resets between battles.
The fleet
Ships, systems, and the battles that scar them
Real campaign and combat captures. Everything here is gameplay unless labeled otherwise.
Every signal makes something ancient pay attention
Get the fleet home.
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