Enter or β to ascend Β· Esc to stay in the cockpit
RELIQUARY
Relics & armaments
Esc back to the concourse
CHARNEL EXCHANGE
Market
prices drift with time and place β buy low somewhere, sell high somewhere else Β· Esc back
CHANTRY BOARD
Writs & obligations
gold markers point at your obligations Β· Esc back
BONEYARD
Hulls
your current hull trades in at 70% of list β the Boneyard keeps the rest Β· Esc back
β NECROSTAR β
Flight catechism
ββ / ADrotateβ / Wmain engine (burns thalergy) β also lifts offSpacefire weaponsβ / Sauto-rotate to retrograde (face your motion, tail-first)M / Tabnavigation chart (pauses)1β3select a River currentJRiver dive β the stele burns 20 thalergyEnterenter the necropolis (when docked on a pad)thalergyrecharges slowly on its own β stuck just means waiting; pads fill it instantlyV Β· Hsound Β· this panel
Novitiate's flight school
To orbit: climb straight up, then pitch over and burn along the horizon until the dotted line wraps all the way around the planet.
To land: hold β to face retrograde, burn until you're slow, then drop tail-first. Under 42 speed, under 30Β° tilt β pads restore you instantly, the wilderness trickle-charges.
Traffic is solid. Other ships work these lanes β shuttles, freighters, bone-miners, Cohort patrols. Give them room or you're both scrap.
Blood of Eden hunts the open lanes β especially the bone belt. Fight with Space, pay them off with C (they honor it), or run β ports are consecrated ground. Bounties pay 300 obols, and a fearsome record makes Edenites think twice.
The Cohort watches. Shoot a working ship and you're marked HERETIC β patrols hunt you and your next dock settles the penance. Shooting back at the Cohort makes it worse.
The market moves. Obol Net headlines mean a commodity is spiking somewhere β get there while it lasts. Epistle writs run on real clocks.
To dive: pick a linked system on the chart (M), hit J anywhere. Your stele aligns and burns to current velocity β and everything on the way out is solid. Dive from clear space, or gamble. A cistern holds ~5 dives; flying is nearly free.
Free brakes: skim a planet's atmosphere to shed speed β watch the dotted line sag as drag eats your orbit. Too fast, and you're the meteor.
Stations orbit. Match one's orbit (ΞV under 40) to dock β and undocking hands you a free orbit. Full rites aloft.
Make obols: haul goods between markets (Exchange), swear writs (Chantry Board), crack asteroids and sell the marrow, or hunt bounties. A Thalergy Siphon turns stars and gas giants into free thalergy.
One flesh, one end. Dying is survivable and expensive. Try to do neither.