Steer — drag anywhere on the window to swing your heading; the whole field banks around your nose (the centre crosshair). Optional tilt steering from the start screen.
Boost & Ease — hold Boost to open the throttle between ports (it burns fuel, refilled by stardust); hold Ease to slow to a gentle drift that soothes guests and recharges faster. Slowing right down beside a world is how sightseers and stargazers actually take in the view — barrel past at speed and the moment is lost. On desktop: Space boosts, Shift eases.
Keep it smooth — ease asteroids off the crosshair to spare the hull. Sharp, repeated banking unsettles guests, and the penalty escalates the more you jerk the ship around — watch for the amber TURBULENCE warning and settle down.
Stardust & decks — glide the crosshair through stardust to refill Boost and restock your three decks (Dining · Shows · Lounge), which slowly deplete. A rare grand crystal tops up everything. Let a deck run dark and guests notice.
Your guests — every voyage carries a few groups with different tastes: honeymooners want calm flying, the Astronomers want tight flybys, gourmands want dining stocked, daredevils want boldness, naturalists love calm nebula legs, and more. You can't fully please everyone — open the ? terminal to read each group's mood.
Voyage types — each launch is a different charter (Grand Cruise, VIP Charter, Honeymoon Special, Thrill Tour, School Expedition, Naturalist Survey) that skews who's aboard and how demanding they are. Fly to suit the crowd you drew.
Deck moments — stage a 🍽️ Dinner, 🎭 Show, or ✨ Stargazing from the bridge buttons — plus a charter signature moment unique to your voyage (a VIP Grand Ball, a school Science Fair, a honeymoon Moonlit Waltz, a Daredevil Stunt, a Naturalist Lecture). Timing is everything: a Dinner or Show lands best when that deck is well-stocked, Stargazing is magical right beside a close world, and each signature has its own sweet spot — but mistimed, it's wasted. Each has a short cooldown.
Onboard events — now and then a one-tap dilemma slides in (a birthday divert, a coolant warning, a VIP\u2019s request…), some with two choices, some with three. Many are tailored to your charter — a VIP speed-record, a school science experiment, a honeymoon proposal, a daredevil slingshot, a naturalist survey. Keep flying while you decide — pick an option, or ignore it and it auto-resolves to the cautious choice. Choices ripple into your guests\u2019 moods.
Space conditions — each leg between ports rolls a condition: 🕊️ Calm (serene), ☀️ Solar Storm (boost offline, but rich stardust), 🌫️ Nebula Drift (hazy but dust-dense), or ☄️ Meteor Stream (heavy debris). The scene tints to match and the leg badge shows it.
Traffic & encounters — you\u2019re not alone out here. Cargo haulers, sister liners, patrol cutters and mail packets drift past, and now and then something rarer appears — a pod of star-whales, a drifting derelict (worth salvage), a distress beacon, or a shooting star to wish upon. Comms will hail each one.
World spectacles — iconic stops put on a one-off show when you draw close and frame them well: auroras over Earth, the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the ring plane at Saturn, a solar prominence off the Sun, lensing at Gargantua, and more. Keep them centred to catch the moment.
The ? terminal — your bridge console: a live ship schematic, telemetry, deck health, the guest manifest with moods, and deck-moment status. The ★ Journey Map and this manual open from there.
▣ Observation deck (lower-left) — hides the bridge for clean, full-screen views; tap the ✕ to return.
The itinerary — out through the solar system (asteroid belt, Saturn's rings, Pluto, the Kuiper belt), then between the stars: Proxima Centauri, the Veil Nebula, TRAPPIST-1, 51 Pegasi, the Gargantua black hole, Kepler-452, Tau Ceti, Gliese 581, 55 Cancri, HD 189733, Kepler-22, and a wormhole home.