Getting Started

Welcome aboard, pilot. This page exists so you don’t waste your first hours: what to do, how to earn, and what to upgrade into. Values may change with balancing — every stat on these pages comes from live game data.

The First 10 Minutes

You start in your faction’s first-zone map flying the starter ship, Origin. The core loop is simple:

1. Hunt NPCs — your first target is the Kryll: the weakest alien, and passive (it won’t attack unless you shoot first). Starter maps are full of them.
2. Collect the rewards — every kill pays Credits, Experience, Honor and Red Matter; most NPCs also drop ore.
3. Return to base, sell, refit — sell your ore at the base and put the earnings into better gear.

Keep quests running

The first quests reward exactly this loop — hunting Kryll and selling ore earns you serious Credits and Red Matter in the very first levels. You can carry several main quests at once; never leave the list empty. Full chain: Quests.

How to Earn

Route	What to do	Details
NPC hunting	Hunt aliens that match your level	NPCs — rewards and ore drops per NPC
Ore	Collect NPC drops, sell at base; refine to raise the value	Resources
Quests	Complete main and daily quests	Quests
Boxes	Grab Bonus Boxes that spawn on the maps	Boxes
Events	Spaceball, Antimatter Rush, NYX and Pyro Titan	Events

What each currency is for (Credits, Red Matter, Celestium, …) is covered on the Economy page.

The Ship Upgrade Path

As you earn, you move into stronger hulls. Base ships are bought with two currencies — the Credits path is steady progression, the Red Matter path is the hunter line. Costs come from live game data; see Ships for full stats.

Credits path

1. ORIGIN Your starter ship
   ↓
2. RHINO 66 000
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3. RAPTOR 120 000
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4. NOMAD 256 000
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5. PARAGON 596 000
   ↓
6. ATLAS 2 560 000

Red Matter path

1. FURY 18 000
   ↓
2. SLIPSTREAM 256 000
   ↓
3. HORNET 256 000
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4. PUNISHER 256 000
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5. WRAITH 272 000

Variants can wait

The Inferno / Sentinel / Crimson variants are premium hulls sold for Celestium — don’t worry about them early on; progress through the base ships first.

Equipment Basics

Your ship carries four kinds of gear; slot counts differ per hull:

• Weapons — lasers mount into weapon slots and consume ammo. A laser without ammo doesn’t fire — LAP-1 is the basic round, keep it stocked.
• Generators — shield (SHG) and speed (SPG) generators. Shields are the layer that melts before your hull takes damage.
• Drones — escort units that fly with you and add firepower.
• Extras — passive bonuses and active CPU modules.

Equipment is classed by tier colors: blue → green → orange → purple. Higher tiers are always better but cost more — a tier-1/2 mix is fine at the start.

Map Safety

The galaxy splits into three faction territories (HELIOS / NOVA / ORION) plus neutral sectors:

• Your home zone (x-1 / x-2) — your first-zone map has no level requirement; deeper zones do. On your faction’s first two maps same-faction combat is fully disabled, and enemy players can only attack you if you start the fight (cease fire and take no damage for 10 seconds and your protection returns). Details: Maps → Home Zone Protection.
• Enemy territories — entry is level-gated and you are open to attack there. Stay away at low levels.
• Sector X / Sector Y / Pyro — full-PvP neutral sectors: everyone can attack everyone. High rewards, high risk. Entry levels and each map’s NPC list are on the Maps page.

Your cargo drops when you die

When you blow up, part of your collected ore scatters into space. Don’t dive into PvP zones with a full hold — make selling at base a habit first.

Progression

Hunting earns Experience (level) and Honor; both feed Rank Points, which set your rank. See Ranks for the rank table and scoring, and Quests for the chain that unlocks as you level.

Next Steps

• Ships — stats and costs for every hull
• Maps — portals, entry levels, NPC distribution
• Mechanics — combat and honor rules: protection, self-defense, penalties