OGV Offworlders Galactic Ventures

Offworlders Galactic Ventures

Pilot the void. Run the contracts. Build the company you'll come back to.

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Flight Controls Mouse or right stick aims. RT fires, LT uses utility, L3 boosts, LB brakes, A acts, X cycles quick slots, B uses one, and R3 local-jumps.

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Onboarding

Show Contextual Hints First-time guidance for docking, audit risk, mysteries, and sector travel.
Replay Welcome Tour Re-open the onboarding tour on the dashboard.
Open Captain Guide Browse quick guidance for Overview, Station Services, sorties, growth, and risk.

Pilot Runtime

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Offworlders Galactic Ventures

Pilot the void. Run the contracts.

Direction & Design

Darren

Engineering

Darren

Art & UI

Darren

Music & Sound

Dark Horizons (theme)

Sound effects - CC0 archives

Writing & World

Darren

Station operations systems and live pilot bridge

Typography

Oxanium - Tyler Finck Rajdhani - Indian Type Foundry Share Tech Mono - Carrois Type Design

Special Thanks

The early playtesters The Squamish dev community Everyone who hit the bug-report button

Built With

Vanilla JS HTML5 Canvas Web Audio API Steamworks
Made in Squamish, BC

Built between the Stawamus Chief and Howe Sound, between rain seasons and good ones, mostly during the quiet hours.

Build 1.0.0 RC
Hearthwake Anchor / Company Berth

Snowchimp Interstellar

Tier 3 · Frontier Operator Cycle 18 Hearthwake System Cryos · Quiet 0 42 total runs · 4 deaths

Hearthwake Home Deck

Home signal locked · berth crew standing by

Welcome home, Snowchimp Interstellar

The berth lights are on. Your crews are turning the station over for the next run.

Charter berth established No sorties logged Flight line ready
Hearthwake public address Company crews report to the home berth. Freight lifts remain operational.
Concourse Information Need the station tour? Get the core loop or a quick explanation of every working deck.
Command rail · live company telemetry

The numbers your station is watching

Choose a readout to walk straight to that desk
Exchange Float
0c
Operating capital
Cryos Desk
—
Foundation principal
Eyes on Berth
0
Quiet
Hangar Frames
0
All ready
Crew on Station
0
On roster
Watch Beacons
0
No clans escalated
Deck 07 Embassy Gallery Who is taking your calls · choose a delegation for details
Deck 04 Fabrication Bay
Active Project
Refinery Bay II
Needs 14 Scrap, 6 Reactor Coolant, 2 Prototype Circuits
86% complete
Deck 03 Exchange Floor
Expiring Opportunity
Aster Crown · Medical Spike
Medical Supplies paying +42% · 2 cycles remaining
Expires Cycle 20
Hangar H1 Flight Line
Fleet Alert
Courier "Glass Moth"
Heat-scored engines after last run · −4% boost recovery until repaired
Wear flag
Deck 08 Signal Loft
Contact Ping
Sable Broker · Veyr
Has a rare cybernetic implant in stock · hold for 1 cycle
Trust 12 / 100
Deck 06 Watch Floor
Sector Pressure
Rust Jackals — Cinder Span
Raider activity rising after convoy failures · escalation 2 / 5
Light pressure
Deck 08-B Unfiled Signals
Mystery Lead
Graveswell Anomaly
3 / 7 fragments found · scan transponder near Wellbreaker
New lead
Concourse voices / current shift

Right now at Hearthwake

Station alive
  1. Flight lineCrews are clearing the active hull.
  2. Works deckFabricators are awaiting the next cycle.
  3. Signal loftOperators are monitoring company channels.
Launch Control / Recommended Window

Review the highest-priority route

Launch Control will rank accepted contracts, expiring markets, recovery claims, and career work from your live company state.

Company Projects

Long-term construction goals. Contribute cargo and credits to advance.

Company Storage

Materials kept at home. Production buildings draw from this pool. Deposit and withdraw at the home dock.

Sector Ledger

Live commodity prices across known stations. Identifies the best buy and best sell pairs for each commodity. Prices reflect station economy, your standing, Cryos visibility, lane pressure, and ongoing market drift.

Show:

Relations

Faction standings and individual contacts. Standings shift from trade, contracts, and combat. Tier changes unlock or block content.

Comms Log

Messages from contacts. Tipoffs, threats, mystery leads. Unread count surfaces on the tab badge.

Fleet Roster

Owned ships — service records, mastery progression, current condition.

Frontier Digest

Cycle-by-cycle changes across the sector.

CYCLE 18
After dock · Hearthwake Anchor
Current
  • ▲ Medical Supplies spike in Aster Crown +42% · 2 cycles
  • ! Raider activity rising near Cinder Span Rust Jackals · 2/5
  • ★ Ashline Quartermaster rolled Thermal Bore Mk III Hold 900 cr

Dispatch

Standing orders for roster pilots. Their trips run quietly while you fly your own.

Research Exchange

Survey real anomalies, recover physical specimens, register first-discovery claims, and choose who controls what you found.

Pilot Memorial

Pilots lost in service to the corporation. Their black boxes were recovered; their names are kept here.

Career Milestones

Markers your operation has crossed. Some you'll see; some you won't notice until later.

In Flight · Departure
Hearthwake ══► Cinder Span
Awaiting the selected route, manifest, and live lane pressure.
Flight Log 0 events
CP
Arrival deck · Cycle 18

Cinder Prospect Exchange

Industrial ExchangeRaw ore · coolant · freight

Cinder Industrial Trust Security: Medium
Concourse public address
Sortie Net · Sortie 1 0c 14m elapsed
Berth assignment Berth 07 Mag-lock secure
Your vessel Tin Orchid Hull 100% · service umbilical online
Port traffic Manifest loading Scanning local transponders
Sortie complete +1 CYCLE

Hearthwake → Cinder Span

Net 0c · 5 events logged
Cargo no cargo
Leads None this leg
Deck 01 · Public access

Station Concourse

Cross the deck to trade, refit, find work, or follow the quieter signs off the main corridor.

Services open
Dock Checklist Not sure what to handle here? Learn the service tiles, what to bank, and when to resume the run.
Promenade A Trade Hall Freight lifts · exchange ring
Lower Gantry B Works Deck Pressure doors · hard-suit area
Habitat Spine C Station Commons Mess hall · lifts · private rooms

Your Fleet

Mara Kest · Surveyor "Tin Orchid" · Hull 100%
Plot Your Course

Frontier Sector — Jump Lanes

Select a destination. Cycles spent in transit advance the world; the longer your trip, the more it changes around you.

Found a New Company

Frontier Operator Charter

Establish your company, choose your founding pilot and ship, and pick the career that defines your starting state. The frontier doesn't ask twice.

OGV Snowchimp Interstellar
Recovery in progress
Recovery Report · Cycle 18

A pilot is gone.

Their final transmission cut at Cinder Span. Hull integrity zero. Black box recovered.

Pilot
Mara Kest
Former convoy navigator · 4 sorties · trait Route Memory
Hull Surveyor — "Tin Orchid"
Cause Hazard impact
Retained 1,100 cr
Lost in transit 15 cargo · 1 contract

Snowchimp Interstellar continues. The corporation ledger is intact and the next pilot is ready to be assigned.
Black box telemetry has been logged — wreck has been pinned at Cinder Span for recovery before scavengers arrive.

Available for Hire
Independent pilots looking for a contract
Roster · 0 pilots queued
Run Complete

Hearthwake → Ashline

Pilot Mara Kest · 1 sortie · 00:30 total

Run Net
0c
across 1 sortie

Recovered

  • Sc 12 Scrap

Company Progress

Refinery Bay II
+0%
Cinder Industrial Trust
+6 reputation

Ship Progress

Surveyor — "Tin Orchid"
Mastery 2 · 78% → 92%

+14% mastery from cargo run + asteroid scan.

New Leads

JUMP IN PROGRESS
HW ══► CS
DESTINATION SECTOR
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Aligning gate · pulse coupling engaged
Resolution

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Cycles played
—
Total runs
—
Lifetime paid to Cryos
—
Tiers closed
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Step 1

Welcome

Raider Intercept

Rust Jackal Mk-3

Threat Tier 2 · cargo and hull at risk
Hull
100%
Sortie XP
0 prior
Cargo aboard
0t
Credits
0c
Cryos Logistics · Long-Haul Convoy

Unmarked container freighter

Three escort drones · no military rating · standard cargo profile
A Cryos Logistics convoy registers on long-range scan. Standard automated escorts. No combat ships. The cargo manifest is encrypted but the seal pattern matches their shipping lanes.

Sable channels would buy whatever's in those crates without asking questions.
Current Visibility
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Cargo Hold
— free
Frontier Patrol · Inspection

Stand to. Manifest check.

Frontier cutter has locked your transponder.
A Frontier patrol cutter signals you to halt for a manifest inspection. Standard procedure for the lane — most captains submit and clear within minutes. Some don't.
Frontier Standing
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Illicit Cargo Aboard
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Standing Order

Assign an order