A whole galaxy at true scale, and a ship you can walk.
A first-person space simulation on Unreal Engine 5. Fly true Newtonian physics on a HOTAS through 119,626 real stars, land on procedural worlds and walk to the horizon, skim gas giants with weather of their own, and fly to black holes drawn by their physics. Set in the Freeholds in 2538.
Fly, walk, land, skim, fall toward a black hole, hold the wire. Every feature on this site carries one of three words: in the game, in development, planned.
Two levers drive two engines, each with its own start, fuel and failure. Her reactor, power bus, helium-3 and life support are live systems you read off the overhead panel, built after the Boeing 737's. Her water is her propellant and her radiation shield: a 20 tonne jacket, and the dose model behind the cabin readout agrees with flown dosimeters, from the ISS to Curiosity, within a factor of two.
The crew are on board: Arien Sarhavi at navigation, Cassie, Kade, Corso, Ellis, Odile, and Talos, a bronze robot deck hand, keeping a watch bill and eating at the table. In space the ship is the anchor, so you can stand up mid-cruise and walk aft while the sky keeps moving. Over Luna, other ships land beside her.
119,626 stars from the HYG database, corrected against Gaia DR3, Hipparcos, XHIP and the Washington Double Star Catalog, sit where astronomers measured them, each with a generated system. The rest of the Milky Way, 111 billion stars from a published model of our galaxy, is generated by the same simulation and arrives next.
In-game captureGalaxy map, G119,624 stars drawnBuild 0.1.0Next: the whole Milky Way on the map, 111 billion stars from a published model, generated around the real ones. In development
Every system starts as published astronomy, with the paper named. It is where Pax Abyssi is strongest.
The wiki and the forum open with the first public build. Wiki text is CC BY-SA 4.0, every page carries a science status and cites its sources, and the devlog comes out every week with pictures.
Stars, planets, black holes and neutron stars as science pages with provenance on every value; the setting as lore pages, marked as fiction.
The weekly devlog and build news, straight from the studio. One account for the wiki, the forum and the API.