The rocket equations are waiting. So is everybody back home — they've
been waiting longer.
Honesty ledger
WHERE WE CHEAT
Everything else in this game is real physics. These are the
places it is not, with the arithmetic — because the honest version of
this game is unlosable. Flying in a straight line through the real
galaxy you would cover about 24 quadrillion light-years before hitting
a star, roughly a million times the width of the observable universe.
Controls
FLIGHT CONTROLS
Click any key to rebind it, then press the key you want.
Rotating the ship and moving it are separate — pointing the nose
somewhere is not the same as going there, and the gap between the
crosshair and the green heading dot is the whole flight model.
Star chart
WHERE TO?
Pick a destination and an amber marker guides you to it. Real
catalogued stars, galaxies and black holes, nearest first. Fly sub-light
to a nearby star to park and look; jump (J) for the far ones.