One game. Four ways to play it.

# Buy and sell on a Trade Floor

The core money loop. Buy a material where it is cheap, haul it, sell it where it is dear. Prices move with supply and demand, so every trade you make nudges the market you are standing in.

In the desktop app, trading is on the Station — the ship never trades (you dock and walk in).

# Read market prices

See what a Trade Floor pays right now. Remote systems are a paid intelligence product: you can only price a system you are in, have scanned, or subscribe to.

# Subscribe to a system Trade Floor (The Bourse)

Buy a null-band feed for another system so its live prices join your arbitrage ticker. This is how you widen your view of the sector from one system to many — information is the real commodity.

You must be docked at a hub in the target system. Costs a SOL fee plus a renewal.

# Find arbitrage opportunities

The ticker ranks the best buy-low / sell-high spreads across every system in your subscribed scope, so you stop guessing which run is worth the fuel.

# Jump to an adjacent system

Move one hop along a jump route. Jumping into an unexplored neighbour is how you explore — the map only opens where you have been.

# Plot a multi-hop course (AutoNav)

Fly a course across several known systems in one order. It halts if you are pulled into combat, so a long haul never strands you mid-fight.

Routes only through systems you have already explored — frontier discovery stays a single jump.

# Dock and undock

Docking opens the station: Trade Floor, bank, ship yard, pub. Undocking puts you back in open space where you can warp, mine and fight.

# Read the star map

See explored space, the frontier edge, jump routes and faction territory. Fog of war is per-player: your map is your own private intelligence.

# Scan the system

Sweep your current system for derelict wrecks worth salvaging, other players’ assets, and anomaly bodies. Free intelligence about where you already are.

# Run cloaked

Cut your encounter chance while travelling and make yourself harder to hit in a fight. Cloak drops on some encounters, so it is cover, not immunity.

# Deploy an M-SPAR to mine a body

Drop a mining module on a planet, moon or belt and it extracts for you every turn, whether or not you are in the system. This is passive income that compounds.

# Program a MULE haul route

Give a MULE a buy-here / sell-there route and it runs that trade on its own every turn. Your first real employee — it turns a good spread into standing income.

# Set a multi-leg milk run

Chain 2–10 trade legs into a circuit a MULE cycles forever. The difference between one good trade and a running business.

# Launch a WISKER survey probe

Send a cheap sensor probe into the unknown to chart systems you have not risked your hull on yet. Exploration without exposure.

# Command your fleet remotely

Recall, dispatch, rendezvous, dock or engage any asset from anywhere. Your fleet keeps working while you fly somewhere else entirely.

# Read mining yields before you commit

See what each body in a system actually produces — yield range, ratios, hazard — so you place a mining module on the right rock the first time.

# Fight an encounter

Commit a tactic each round — Fight, Hold, Hail, Evade or Surrender. Talking your way out is a real option, and so is running.

Surrender is destructive — you lose the ship and its wallet, but your bank balance survives.

# Read the tactical picture

Round number, your hull and shields, every live enemy, and which tactic you are committed to — the board before you move.

# Salvage wrecks

Scoop cargo and scrap from a kill, or tow the whole hulk home to sell. Every fight leaves something worth money.

Discord-only today. The wreck itself is visible everywhere via scan; recovery is on the roadmap for the other surfaces.

# Repair your hull

Spend a Repair Microbot charge to patch damage in the field, instead of limping to a shipyard.

# Bank your Solari

Money in the ship wallet can be lost with the ship. Money in the ISP Bank is safe and earns interest. Deciding what to carry is a real risk call.

Requires a bank terminal — you must be docked somewhere that has one.

# Take a contract at the Pub

Courier runs, passengers, bounties, hunts and salvage jobs posted by named NPCs. Steady work when the market is flat, and the fastest early money.

# Talk to NPC contacts

Pub contacts are AI characters with memory and moods, not menus. Talk them into work, and they remember how you treated them last time.

Discord-only by design — it is a conversation, and Discord is where the conversation lives.

# Message another captain (Fat Wire)

Direct player-to-player messaging, addressed by ship name. Deals, threats, alliances — the diplomacy layer of a six-player sector.

Your AI can send on your behalf — it always signs as your ship, never as the system.

# Read the Quantum Comms feed

Your assets report in: MULE trades, extractions, hazards, arrivals. It is how you know what your empire did while you were elsewhere.

# Buy a ship module

Holds, shields, power plants, cloaks, targeting AI, drives. Modules land in your hold until you fit them.

# Fit a module to your ship

Install a module from your hold into a hull slot — the difference between owning a shield and being protected by one. Mount rules and power budgets apply.

# Inspect your ship layout

Hull class, drive tier, hull and shields, cargo, and what is in every slot — the sheet you plan a refit around.

# Submit your turn

Lock in your orders and wait for the compile. Everyone’s turn resolves together — the play-by-mail rhythm this game is built on.

Once submitted you are frozen out of mutating actions until the turn advances — on every surface.

# Check the win condition and standings

A SPAR Sector match ENDS and someone wins. Read the victory condition, turns remaining and live net-worth standings so you know what you are playing toward.

# Wait (burn AP for automation)

Spend action points to let your automated assets run more ticks without ending your turn. Time is a resource you can buy.