What changed

2026-09-11

• Every lane you fly is a named thing that says where it came from. Sixteen of them.
• You only learn a lane's name once you have flown it.
• Three gates are being raised at the edge of charted space, at Lyra Shoal, Draco Fringe and Hydra Expanse.
• You cannot fly through one yet, and that is the point. No date is promised — what is promised is that an opened gate adds somewhere real to go.

2026-09-11

• Refining is a place now. Five systems have a smelter; you carry ore to them and the alloys wait for you there.
• Hand it over and it leaves your hold straight away. Fly off in the meantime if you like.
• The Refining skill finally does something — 6% off a batch per level.
• A smelter will not touch cargo with no manifest.

2026-09-11

• Three things in the bar, not sixteen: where you are, the chart, and your record. On a phone the chrome went from half the screen to under a quarter.
• Nothing has moved out of reach — everything is named on the screens it belongs to.
• The cost, so it is not a surprise: chart to belt is two clicks now instead of one.
• And the commodities have icons, with marks for the four factions.

2026-09-10

• A finished arc folds itself away, keeps its name, gains a tick, and sits at the bottom.
• Locked arcs stay above the finished ones — something you cannot do yet is worth seeing.
• And replies on the signal board are signed “The Architects”.

2026-09-09

• Pick one of two portraits when you create a character. Each origin offers its own pair.
• Already flying? There is a panel on your account page to pick a face once.
• It is set once and cannot be changed, the same way your origin cannot.
• Nothing about it affects the game.