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Your mothership is invulnerable. Everything else — colonies, shipyards, fleets — you will have to hold: against human commanders and against the Skagri.

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Read the ship's log

The mothership's log

Twenty days of one commander.

Entry 001day 1, 06:12 ship timesystem edge

The base ship

Commander, we came out of the jump as planned. The stealth envelope and the jammers are running, no threats detected. The energy banks hold 12% charge; the star is a red dwarf at 1/250 solar luminosity, so the charge will build slowly. I recommend scouting the planets.

Reference · Compendium

A mothership is a colonizer vessel: a full-cycle mobile base independent of planets and of supply. The cycle covers jumps between star systems, resource production, fleet construction and technology development. Without the quantum key nothing detects a mothership; the Confederation registry holds no record of a successful attack on a vessel of this class.

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Entry 002day 1, 15:05aboard the mothership

Energy and resources

Commander, while you were away the energy store filled almost to its limit. I recommend converting the surplus into matter through the Dreid Synthesizer and choosing a fleet construction program.

Reference · Compendium

The synthesizer carries the name of Kaal Dreid: he derived the conditions under which radiation — its quanta pumped up to working energies — converts into a specified type of matter, and he brought the process to industrial scale. Experiment confirmed it in 2021: the STAR Collaboration at Brookhaven recorded the first particle pairs from photon collisions. Breit and Wheeler calculated the possibility in 1934; both authors judged a laboratory test unfeasible. Radiation from any source serves: a star, a quasar, a magnetar, a fusion reactor. A mothership runs on the light of the local star as standard; that source requires neither fuel nor a voyage. In detail: TCUH, vol. 14, Materiosynthetics and Related Technologies.

Sources: Breit G., Wheeler J. A., Physical Review 46, 1934; STAR Collaboration, Physical Review Letters 127, 052302, 2021; Dreid K. — TCUH, vol. 14.

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Entry 007day 2, 11:30aboard the mothership

The Skagri

Commander, the system scan is complete: the Skagri hold the system entirely. I read a nest signature; I cannot fix its exact position yet. I recommend starting with the moons of the outer planets: sabotage runs easily from there, and it buys us time to weaken the swarm. The reference on the SKAGRY program is attached.

Reference · Compendium

SKAGRY is a terrestrial program of autonomous expansion: biological agents under the control of a swarm AI, built for environments lethal to humans. The design excluded a central node on a fault-tolerance requirement; the consequence is the absence of a single point of shutdown. Humanity did not watch the swarm expand. It found the results. The exact numbers are unknown; surveys record the swarm in every system examined. The Skagri hold the complete body of Earth's knowledge, the data on their creators included.

Sources: TCUH, vol. 17, Autonomous Expansion Programs: Historical Precedents, ch. 3; IANR, Committee for Autonomous Systems Safety, archive CASS-4/4-009 (declassified).

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Entry 014day 4, 03:50first colony

Colonies and planet capture

Commander, we repelled a Skagri wave, but the losses run above the estimate. Review the battle report; next time you may prefer to take command in person. The Confederation has paid insurance for the losses sustained, in universal Confederation credits (CC).

Reference · Compendium

Holding establishes the right to a planet; the Confederation recognizes no other ground. A capture damages part of the structures and leaves them to be rebuilt, yet the main capacity survives and passes to the new owner. The turret grid and the fleet carry the defense of a colony. With no commander present the fleet follows its standing order: it takes the battle, or it withdraws and keeps the ships.

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Entry 058day 15, 04:10neighboring system

Fleet and battles

Commander, the planet is taken, the enemy fleet destroyed. Our losses came to two thirds of the ships. Formal result: victory.

Reference · Compendium

A destroyed ship admits no repair. A battle runs in one of two modes. The automatic mode settles the outcome from decisions taken in advance: the attacker's order, the defense mode and the composition of the fleets. An Assault order carries the battle until one side is destroyed; a Raid ends it after the first pass and pulls the survivors out. In the tactical mode the commander runs the battle on the spot: issues orders as it goes, uses what each ship class does best and may take the fleet out of the fight. Ship classes have a plain specialization, with advantages and limits against the other classes, so the composition of a fleet counts for no less than its size.

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Entry 063day 19, 01:10Confederation channel

Alliances and elections

Commander, my congratulations: the rating puts you among the strongest pilots of the Confederation, and you are on the ballot. The election of the Primus closes in 26 hours. To win it, put the resources of the coalition to work and secure further support — probably at the price of an officer's seat.

Reference · Compendium

The Confederation is the governing body of all humanity. A direct vote elects the Primus every week; any commander, from any alliance, may stand. Each branch of power — attack, defense, support — holds two seats: the ballot fills one, the Primus appoints the other. That power rests on the autonomous systems of the Confederation: the Primus, the officers and their alliances gain powers of command available by no other route.

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Entry 064day 20, 07:05system edge

Growth without a ceiling

Commander, while you were away — 11 hours 40 minutes — two buildings finished and the fleet reached its destination system. At 03:20 the Skagri attacked the colony; the turrets repelled the wave with no losses. I recommend upgrading the shipyard: fleet construction will run faster.

Reference · Compendium

The onboard AI of a mothership executes the orders of its commander; a decision beyond an order waits for confirmation. The restriction dates from N-1. Colony growth has no limit, yet it obeys the law of diminishing returns, known to the economics of Earth since the 18th century: every further stage of infrastructure costs more and takes longer than the one before it. The same law held in science: by the start of the 21st century each doubling of transistor density demanded an ever larger number of researchers.

Sources: Turgot A. R. J., Observations sur un mémoire de M. de Saint-Péravy, 1767; Bloom N., Jones C. I., Van Reenen J., Webb M., American Economic Review 110 (4), 2020.

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The flight is open

Playing is not possible yet — the closed beta test has not started. The sandbox is open, though: you can look at individual objects from the game — systems, planets, ships.

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Quick answers before launch

Is Universe Skagry free?

Yes, you can play it free from start to finish.

Can you win with a wallet?

No. Premium you buy with battles, ships with resources, and victory with tactics, strategy and politics. Paying is a way to support the project and to grow faster.

Do I need to download anything?

You do not have to: the game runs in a browser. Clients for Steam and the mobile stores are on the way — if you are on a phone right now, save the link.

How much time does it take a day?

As much as you like. Builds and flights take hours and days on their own, so ten minutes a day is enough.

How real is the space in the game?

Partly: it is real wherever observation data exist. The Solar System is built from the figures and imagery available, some systems come from the NASA registry, some are made by a generator. Anything with a real reference behind it is always marked as such; as new data arrive, the game follows.

Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia — the oldest active university observatory in Spain, working since 1909
CARMENES at Calar Alto, eleven Spanish and German institutions: its first data release added 59 new planets around red dwarfs
James Webb (NASA, ESA, Canadian Space Agency): the rings of Uranus in the infrared, imaged on 6 February 2023
Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile: first images on 23 June 2025, the start of a ten-year survey of the sky
And many others. The data behind each object is given with the object itself in the world and in the game’s compendium.

Why are there real names and dates in the log?

I love space and the scientific way of thinking. Many names stay behind the scenes, and yet we are here largely thanks to those people: their ideas, their discoveries, their flights of imagination, their stubbornness. I want to build a world where science fiction meets reality. This is my way of paying respect to the dreamers, the explorers, the altruists, the watchers — to Humans with a capital H. The real foundation of this world — the dates, the names, the events — comes from open sources.

Entry 065awaiting the commander

The energy banks are charged

Entry 065 is empty. The mothership holds at the edge of the system, ready to jump. All that is missing is the commander's name.

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