It's the 24th century and the colonization of space is not going well. Hyperspace has opened the door to the stars, but habitable worlds are few and far between, overpopulation is still rampant, and our civilization's appetite for resources has only grown. For over a hundred years, the incredibly rich Dust Zone has fed this endless appetite, jointly controlled by the United Nations of Earth and the Zone Mining Cooperative. But humanity's chance of survival lasted only a hundred years.

Now, everything has gone dark. Freighters have stopped arriving with supplies and humanity is facing an unprecedented crisis. It's up to whoever commands the best NUT fleet to deploy in the Dust Zone, investigate and resolve the supply chain crisis before it gets out of hand. It's time to demonstrate strategic aptitude in a turn-based management mode. Only then, go to the frontlines and put your commanding instincts to use in intense real-time space battles.

Highlights

Command the fleet

• Command an entire space fleet and survive in the most hostile environment known to man. Protect strategic nodes, harvest the Dust Zone's resources, and expand the fleet to face the threat to humanity's survival.
• Customize each ship individually using a detailed assembler. Upgrade each vessel with newly researched hulls, modules and, of course, weapons. Every improvement matters, not just spaceships.
• Complete side missions to unlock additional fleet stations and strategic options. They can provide unique bonuses in battles, from extra build queues to support powers, potentially changing the tide of the ongoing battle or even the entire war.

Command warships into battle

• Take command of a customized fleet in intense real-time x4 tactical battles, maneuvering them in a fully 3D combat space.
• Employ complex tactical maneuvers to gain the upper hand and defeat superior enemies through cunning and strategic brilliance.
• Call in reinforcements and support powers from secondary sectors to influence the course of battle.
   

This is more than meets the eye

• Never give up and keep fighting in Sector Assault mode to generate a star map, side missions and completely random enemies, creating new challenges every time.
• Use the robust campaign editor and mod.io integration to easily create and share new campaigns with other players and create custom challenges!