Getting Started Guide

Welcome to Stellar Universe! This guide will help you get started on your journey to become the most powerful force in the galaxy.

• Create Your Account - Sign up and customize your empire
• Build Your Base - Construct buildings and expand your territory
• Research Technologies - Unlock new abilities and upgrades
• Train Your Fleet - Build mighty warships and armies

Master four essential resources to dominate the galaxy:

Research isn't harvested like other resources — it's explored. Every planet holds a finite stock of research points, to be discovered planet by planet with a ship carrying a science module. Invest them into a tree of twenty technologies, from energy to nanites, to unlock new capabilities.

Before you even set foot on your first planet, shape the people you lead: choose traits that influence your mines, your production, or your build times, then a government authority and up to two ethics that shape your domestic policy.

Grow your empire through strategic expansion:

1. Colonize New Planets - Claim uninhabited worlds for additional resources
2. Build Diplomatic Relations - Grow closer to your neighbors, or declare war: every decision matters
3. Conquer Territory - Defeat enemies and claim their systems as your own

Design every ship piece by piece on a modular grid — core, weapons, armor, engines — then face your rivals in turn-based tactical combat on a hex grid.

1. Design - Assemble every ship on a modular grid of over forty pieces
2. Fight - Face your rivals turn by turn on a hex grid, shields and status effects included
3. Strike fast - Launch instant Stargate missions to any discovered address