Starlane

What changed

Starlane is built in the open and mostly built from the signal board. Ideas from players are marked, with what shipping them paid.

Nobody gets a ship. You work for the first one.

U2e

2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 5,000 paid

  • You start on a dock with a few hundred credits and no hull. Your origin recommends a ship; you buy it.
  • The new Dock tab is how — work that needs no ship, no fuel and no capital, paid by the hour.
  • You do not have to watch it. Take a shift, close the tab, and the credits are there when you come back.
  • About a session of it buys your first hull, and every yard stocks the cheap ones.
  • Every existing pilot has lost their ship, with no refund. Credits, skills, licences, standing and chart are untouched.
  • Dock work pays badly on purpose. It is the floor of this economy, not a rung on it.

A station is a place now, and your record is a record

U2d

2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 5,000 paid

  • Every system has a description — what the place is, who runs it, why it makes what it makes.
  • The system you are docked at shows what is actually there: the belt, the board, the academy, the yard.
  • It also tells you what your hold is worth where you are standing.
  • Your account page is a service record: the ship, training, licences, standing, your rank on each board, and the ideas you filed.

Objectives — something to check when you log in

U2c

2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 5,000 paid

  • Three things to do today and two for the week. They reset at midnight, and on Monday morning.
  • Nothing to accept and nothing to tick — the bars have moved by the time you look.
  • What you are asked for depends on what you can actually do.
  • The rewards are small on purpose. The money in this game comes from flying.

Contracts — somebody else's freight, for a fee

U2b

2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 5,000 paid

  • Every station posts freight it wants moved: a named load to a named system, for a fee agreed before you leave.
  • You buy the cargo yourself, so what you make is the fee less what the load cost you.
  • The fee follows hold space and distance, not what the goods are worth.
  • Boards are shared. Somebody else can take a posting out from under you.
  • Arrive with the cargo and it pays, late or not. Hand one back at any time, from anywhere, for nothing.

The chart is a chart again

U2.9

2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 2,500 paid

  • The star chart is a real graph now — drag, zoom, hover, and click a system to open it.
  • It looks like a sky rather than a diagram, and it is flat: two systems twice as far apart on screen are twice as far apart in fuel.
  • With JavaScript off you get the same chart as a picture, and the tables carry every fact.
  • And this page — what changed, and what you are playing.