Asteroids are small celestial bodies that orbit planets. Your crew can discover, claim, and build on them. They're key to unlocking fast travel and late-game features.

Finding Asteroids

Asteroids are discovered through exploration. When your team explores a planet, there's a chance of discovering a nearby asteroid. The base discovery probability is around 15%, modified by:

• The planet you're exploring (some planets have more asteroids in their orbit)
• How many asteroids you already own (the more you have, the harder it is to find new ones)

A team can own up to 7 asteroids. It's a good idea to find them around different planets to spread your presence across the galaxy.

When you discover an asteroid, you'll be asked to give it a name. After that, it becomes a satellite of the planet you were exploring and you can travel to it like any other destination.

Upgrades

You can build upgrades on your asteroids from the asteroid panel when your team is stationed there. Building requires the right resources and takes time. Your Engineer's Upgrades bonus reduces the build duration, so assigning a skilled Engineer before starting a build is worth it.

Only one upgrade can be in progress per asteroid at a time.

Teleportation Pad

The teleportation pad allows your crew to teleport instantly to this asteroid from anywhere in the galaxy. Teleportation costs 1 Rum per crew member (e.g. a crew of 7 costs 7 Rum).

Building teleportation pads on asteroids around different planets lets you set up a fast travel network across the galaxy, bypassing normal travel times and fuel costs entirely.

Note: traveling back to your home planet is always free and doesn't require a pad.

Space Cove

The space cove is a unique structure: you can only build one across all your asteroids. It opens up your asteroid to network visitors, allowing other players to travel to it and enabling multiplayer features like hosting tournaments.

Your space cove has its own panel with two views:

• Space cove: manage your own cove. This view is only available once you've built one.
• All coves: browse the space coves owned by other crews across the network, with your own team highlighted, and travel out to visit them.

Network asteroids

When you're connected to the P2P network, asteroids settled by other players now show up in your Galaxy view as satellites of their planets, marked as network locations alongside their crews.

Seeing an asteroid doesn't automatically mean you can land on it: a crew has to build a Space Cove there to open it up to visitors. Use the All coves view of the space cove panel to find those open coves and travel out to them - that's how you reach other players to play games and join tournaments.

Tips

• Explore different planets to spread your asteroids across the galaxy. Combined with teleportation pads, this gives you fast access to different markets and populations;
• Prioritize building a teleportation pad on your first asteroid. The time and fuel savings pay off immediately;
• Assign your best Engineer before starting a build to cut down the construction time;
• Save up resources before committing to a Space Cove - it's expensive but unlocks the endgame.