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When you are new to Star Atlas, players choose a faction and start in a faction-secured safe zone. This allows the player to explore all the basic functions of the game except destructive activity such as rescue, combat and salvage. Once the player is sufficiently confident enough to venture out, there is a medium tiered safety zone that is secured by mercenary groups. In this medium tier, Combat is now allowed but your assets will be reset if destroyed, which we assume means that some form of your ship will return to your inventory and not fully destroyed.
The final distant zone of Star Atlas is a wild frontier where full combat and the destruction of assets is a permanent event. However, only a portion of assets in combat are destroyed permanently. For example, the results of a destroyed ship in combat is that the ship asset is decimated into components, scrap, escape podded crew members, and a certain amount is lost forever.
But let’s dive into that a little bit. What does this third tier actually contain? In Star Atlas, you aren’t just looking out upon a background of stars. All visible stars are real places, or assets, and can be visited.
A quick note, because this game is built on the blockchain, almost every actionable item is called an asset, because it can be bought, sold, and traded on the blockchain. Since this can be done with parcels of land, who’s to say it can’t be done with entire planets?
And, Although some distant stars can be prohibitively distant and will require proper fueling to reach, there will be no actual skybox so exploration can be done visually. This gives all players open exploration to go anywhere in the Star Atlas universe. Players will pilot their ships manually to uncover all the riches the universe has to hide using their upgradable scanning modules. Higher tier scanning equipment performs deeper and broader and leads to a higher amount of assets that will be discovered. Scanning data can be acted upon and staked or can be placed on the marketplace to be sold.
Now, one of the most interesting thing about this game is still just a rumour. I repeat, this is not confirmed, but I’ve seen or heard it teased twice now. If you watch the trailer, it shows 3 characters working together to find what appears to be a planet made of diamonds. If you ask me…. I think there is a planet out there with such value and you can bet I’ll be looking for it.
So that is everything you need to know about Faction Security Zones and Deep Space Exploration as a new player.