Helios
Start where we are
Wind, solar, a materials plant and a research campus on a real globe. Fission and fusion when you have earned them, and a launch pad when Earth can finally afford to look up.
Earth industry, playable
The plan, as humanity wrote it
Every era of Helios hands the last era’s busywork to automation, so you are always making the next big decision rather than babysitting the old ones.
The Moon pays its own way
Ice in the polar craters becomes propellant. Landers fly home fuelled, and cargo to orbit stops depending on every kilogram lifted from Earth.
Orbit, Moon and the asteroid belt, playable
Catch the Sun’s light
Asteroid metal, a shipyard in orbit and collectors built at Mercury add up, ring by ring, to a swarm around the Sun. Humanity becomes a civilization that runs on a star.
Planned chapter
Move the Sun
We cannot change the black hole’s path. A mirror the size of a world can change ours: sunlight pushed one way, the Sun and every planet drifting the other, out of harm’s way.
The ending
