VINDICATOR

Wake up. The gates are dark. Fold anyway.

Play / Wishlist Codex Devlog

What is it

Jump gate to gate through a system that's collapsing behind you.

Build your ship module by module — every weapon has its own signature.

Every fold has a price — track the cost live.

Manual & notes

The player-facing in-game manual — what the systems are, written for the pilot in the seat.

Curated systems design docs — the WHY behind economy, fleet, combat, and production art language. Story spoilers stay offline.

Codex ships in the game PCK. Design notes are curated from the repo; regenerate the site pages when those files move.

Devlog

What landed 2026-07-16 → 2026-07-25, by area.

07-17 → 07-25

Nine races, one visual language each — hulls, stations, and cities settled in a full taste pass.
First complete ship-and-station catalog rendered for every race; the Kithar picked their hull from a four-way sheet — the scarab won.
Homeworlds now read from orbit: per-race terrain shaders with coast-following pinpoint city lights.
Black hole rebuilt with gravitational lensing and doppler shading; the fold reads as suction instead of a whirlpool.

07-19 → 07-22

Heavy Railgun readability: the tracer wake now drags behind the round; an Overcharged variant joins the family.
Energy weapons share one capacitor per weapon family, and a weapon can be authored to wind up before it fires.
A closing doctrine can boost into reach of a retreating gun.

07-19 → 07-25

Mining stations you own: place one on a belt, it fills a hold with ore — haul it to market and watch the economy move.
Stations burn Power Cells to stay lit, and can be emptied but never destroyed.
Danger maps to richness in every belt; remote market data sits behind subscription tiers; haulers keep their cargo through gates.

07-19 → 07-25

Crew & officers: a slot ladder and three officer types with real effects, run from the dock's FLEET screen — recruits fly hauler and trader routes themselves.
Shift+click and Tab select flights; dock and hail collapse into one interact verb; F9 opens a perfect-scanner inspector.

07-21 → 07-25

Every race got an authored home system — starting with Ennead, the Trine ocean home — and the territory-holders now field their own factions.
Six new planet types, survey designations for unnamed bodies, and The Verge: a frontier system built around the mining loop.

07-16 → 07-22

Map selection panel and pause menu rebuilt as proper scenes; codex articles now unlock through discovery.
Weapon SFX rebuilt from sourced samples, plus two new retro tracker tracks.