Every planet has its own day length, its own resources and its own role: the system is built so that not one planet is self-sufficient. There are no portals. The only way off a planet is a ship the players assembled: hull, engine, fuel, life support. That is weeks of work and a dozen specialists, so the first ships will be jointly owned out of sheer necessity. The class II engine is not in the Library — somebody will have to invent it first, and at a loss. There is no telling in advance how long a flight takes: the planets follow their own orbits, and the road between two of them runs from a few hours to several days, depending on where they stand right now.
Home of the cyborg humans and the main market. The Bioprinter stands here — the Precursor machine that prints people. There is no map: the world grows by whoever walks out past the wall. Everyone will see what you find, but you get there first.
An ice planet, and under the ice lie the cities of the Precursors. What comes out of them is blueprints, catalysts and scraps of somebody else's history. Nobody gets deep alone. Violence is allowed: the greatest danger here is other explorers. A word of advice — do not make friends down there.
Lava fields, ash storms, calderas with the richest veins there are. The only source of pyroxite, and without pyroxite there are no engines and no reactors. Eruptions redraw the map — you adapt or you lose. Every kilogram is paid for by the road there and back.
An ocean world and home of the nymphs — an economy built on different principles from the human one. It will not be in the beta. The planet arrives whole, and only when the economy starts to miss it — not for the sake of a line on a feature list.
The real human civilisation — the Precursors — vanished, leaving behind a machine that prints people. You are what that machine printed.
Not heroic space opera but a colonial frontier. The galaxy is silent; everything complicated around you is somebody else's, old, and not fully understood. Printed people pick through the estate of a vanished civilisation and fight each other over ore. The lore is not shown to you in a cutscene — it is found in fragments on Aurora, and then sold, hidden or forged.
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