The depth beneath the war

01 /The Economy

Five resources, one constraint

Four are pulled from the nodes around your worlds; one comes only from trade. Your true ceiling is never the map — it is how many mouths you can feed. The rare Ancient Crystal / Ezeli Kristali sits apart: it buys prestige, never raw power.

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  Durium

  The old empire’s standard build alloy; every structure begins with it.

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  Titanium

  Refined heavy armor and structural metal; the mid-to-late bottleneck. Aegis’s favored resource.

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  Tylium

  Hyperdrive fuel and weapon energy at once — the most fought-over resource. Vanguard’s fuel.

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  Ration

  Hydroponic food and life-support; it feeds your population and your crews.

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  Credit

  The one surviving common currency; it flows from trade and the exchange, never from mines. Concord’s tongue.

Ancient Crystal (Ezeli Kristali) — A rare prestige resource — it buys standing, never raw power.

02 /Worlds & Nodes

The circle that grows

Every planet sits inside an access circle that touches resource nodes graded from tier 1 to tier 8 — the higher the tier, the richer the yield. Four resources are drawn from nodes; Credit is not. Your Command Center widens that circle, reaching new nodes and opening new building plots as it grows.

• Expansion buys flexibility, not power

  More nodes mean more variety and redundancy, but total output is capped by your colony’s population and worker pool. There is no runaway snowball.

• Plots are scarce

  Each world offers only so many building slots. What you place — and what you leave out — is a real decision.

• Prize spots are contested

  Rare tier 5–8 nodes are visible to everyone, so they draw conflict like gravity.

• Neighbors by design

  With no minimum-distance rule, players colonize shoulder to shoulder and fight resource wars — economic pressure and raids, not razed worlds.

• The Hidden Bunker

  A protected reserve shields a base slice of your resources from plunder, so raiding stays meaningful without wiping out newcomers.

03 /Buildings

What you raise on the plot

Structures define a colony — its cap, its defenses, its fleets and its industry. The Command Center sits above them all and soft-caps the rest. (The Tylium Well, Hydroponic Farm, Trade Exchange, Morale Center, Command Academy, Range Tower and Siege Workshop fall in line beside them.)

Galactic Beacon

The victory Wonder — built only in the Core.

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  Command Center

  The HQ. Sets your population cap, grows the access circle, and soft-caps every other building.

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  Planetary Shield

  The Wall. Multiplies your defense and is the first target in any assault.

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  Research Lab

  Drives the shared tech tree forward.

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  Orbital Shipyard

  Builds and berths your fleets.

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  Ore Refinery

  Produces Titanium.

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  Smelter

  Produces Durium.

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  Tylium Well

  Extracts Tylium — the galaxy’s fuel and weapon energy.

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  Hydroponic Farm

  Produces Ration — feeds your population and your fleet crews.

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  Ration Processing

  Refines raw harvest into Ration — feeds your population and crews.

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  Mech Hangar

  Fields your armored units.

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  Garrison

  Trains and houses your infantry.

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  Range Tower

  Trains your ranged units.

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  Siege Workshop

  Builds your siege units.

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  Trade Exchange

  The market — a passive stream of Credit from trade.

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  Morale Center

  Speeds your population growth.

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  Command Academy

  Raises your alliance member cap and member growth.

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  Hidden Bunker

  Shields a base slice of your resources from plunder.

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  Defense Turret

  Orbital and surface batteries — the second line that meets an assault once the Wall is down.

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  Comms Observatory

  Spots inbound fleets early and exposes enemy spy drones.

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  Ore Mine

  Extracts raw ore that feeds the refinery and the smelter.

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  Depot

  Raises your resource storage caps.

04 /Units & Fleets

Armies your Ration can feed

Infantry and fleets carry your war — and quality climbs on two axes: building levels unlock variants, while research grants global bonuses and unlocks apex fleets. Army size has no hard cap; it is bounded by cost and by Ration upkeep. Over-extend, and famine slowly takes your cheapest-upkeep units until you rebalance.

• ATKAttack power
• DEF-IDefense against infantry
• DEF-ADefense against armored
• SPDHyperspace travel speed
• CARCargo and loot capacity

• Faction profiles

  Every faction profiles the same forces differently: Vanguard hits hardest, Aegis defends best, Concord balances cargo and speed.

• Two axes of quality

  Building levels unlock basic → veteran → elite variants; research adds global bonuses and unlocks apex units — the Heavy Fleet (Ağır Filo) and the Star Armada (Yıldız Donanması).

• Combined arms

  A combined Ranged-and-Infantry attack lifts your ranged power — composition is a weapon.

• Upkeep is the real cap

  There is no army-size limit, only Ration upkeep. Outgrow your food and your cheapest units starve first.

• Eyes before fists

  A cheap Spy Drone (Casus Droidi) scouts what the map hides — but espionage carries its own risk.

05 /Combat

A battle that always resolves the same way

Combat is deterministic, server-authoritative and seeded — the same battle always plays out identically, so there is nothing to cheat on the client. It runs in rounds, and composition decides as much as numbers.

• Round-based

  Up to six rounds; each inflicts losses in proportion to the power ratio, with only small variance.

• The rout threshold

  A side that drops below 15% of its starting strength breaks and the battle ends.

• Class-matched defense

  The defender automatically meets infantry-heavy attacks with DEF-I and armored-heavy ones with DEF-A, so what you bring matters as much as how much.

• The Wall counts

  A standing Planetary Shield multiplies the defender’s strength.

• Three outcomes, one simulator

  Attacker win, defender win, or pyrrhic — and a free simulator runs the exact same engine for a no-stakes dry run, pre-fillable from a valid spy report.

06 /The Galaxy Map

An open map, real-time distance

The galaxy nests Galaxy → Sector → Star System → Planet, and a season can hold several galaxies that open as the population grows. There is no fog of war: the static map is open to read, but exact tiers, enemy armies and hidden stats still demand scouting.

• Travel takes real time

  Hyperspace crossings run on distance divided by your fleet’s slowest ship — and fleets can be recalled within a short window.

• Up to ten colonies

  Each new world needs a Colony Ship, experience, and the Hyperspace “Colony Protocol” tech.

• A fair first city

  Your starting world always offers three different resources at mixed low tiers; later colonies land on coordinates you choose.

• A seed-fixed galaxy

  The map is fixed by seed, so positions are knowable — reading it well is its own advantage.

• Defeat is not elimination

  Lose a contested world and you relocate and rebuild — never erased.

07 /Research

One tree, every faction

A single shared tech tree spans Economy, Military, Hyperspace and Science. Every faction researches the same tree — only their bonus profiles differ — and filling it out is the work of the mid-to-late season.

• Economy

  Sharpens yields, logistics and the worker pool that caps your output.

• Military

  Global combat bonuses and the path to apex units.

• Hyperspace

  Faster travel, more colonies, and the road to the Core.

• Science

  Deep tech — and the ancient secret of how to light the Beacon.

Two keys gate the endgame: Hyperspace’s “Core Sector Access” and Science’s “Wonder Pre-Research” — the lost knowledge of how to ignite the Beacon.

08 /The Road to Victory

No one wins alone

The Galactic Beacon is the season’s most expensive structure — a multi-week coalition project that can only be raised in the Core. Lighting it takes a Trinity, and holding the Trinity together is the whole endgame.

• A Trinity coalition

  Victory needs at least one commander from each of the three factions, each having completed a Level-10 Beacon, with the Trinity intact at the finish. No single faction or mega-alliance can win alone.

• Or the Closest Coalition

  If no one finishes by day 120, the “Closest Coalition” ranking decides the season.

• Spoilers, not destroyers

  A weaker player can knock a Beacon down to delay victory — buying time — but can never destroy it outright.

• Then the reset

  The galaxy resets for a new Ignition Cycle. Only glory carries over — cosmetics, titles, achievements — never power.