Lyceum scientists regret to inform you that one of their colleagues, while innocently researching chaos theory, has accidentally synchronized a mass of butterflies into flapping their wings in perfect unison.

The resulting resonance has superimposed into a cascading wave now sweeping across the solar system. Like a great solar avalanche, these waves are building in strength, and calculations predict they will reach their final crescendo soon.

At that moment, the destructive force will overwhelm all known spacetime structures—shattering colonies, scattering fleets, and unraveling the very fabric of the cosmos itself.

But as with all things in chaos theory, destruction breeds new patterns. This great collapse will trigger a rebirth of the universe, paving the way for new empires, new discoveries, and new chaos to come.

Prepare yourselves, Earthforce citizens. Secure what you can, say farewell to the old order, and ready your ships for the reborn expanse.

Dev Notes

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Player stations, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
  • Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
  • Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station.  You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
  • You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

PDT: 10:00
MDT: 11:00
CDT: 12:00
EDT: 13:00
UTC: 17:00
BST: 18:00

As promised in the previous blog post, here is the blog describing the milestones and objectives that will be used in the 20th Anniversary Event starting on June 13th! This post will also share some more details on the time that things will happen in the event, and in what ways game systems will be changed.

Universe Changes

The universe for the 20th Anniversary Event Server will be changed in the following ways:

• At the start of the event, no Warp Navigation training methods are available.

• Warp Navigation 1 is made available at Paxius 3 hours into the event

• Warp Navigation 2 is made available at Paxius 9 hours into the event

• Warp Navigation 3 is made available at Paxius 24 hours into the event

• Warp Navigation 4 is made available at Paxius 48 hours into the event

• PvP is enabled in all randomly generated Earthforce layer galaxies, and some unique galaxies.

• PvP is enabled inside the non-instanced galaxies in the Serengeti.

• There are only 4 Fractured Galaxies, they are available at the start of the event. They have PvP windows every single day.

• There are fewer galaxies in Wild Space, and they will be fully revealed before the last day of the event.

• A construction speed booster is available in the Earthforce Frontier Station in Sol. It provides a +400% bonus to construction speed.

Game Rate Changes

Certain systems are changed are as follows:

• Equipped augmenter drop rates are increased by 500%

• Bindomite drops from dungeons are increased by 500%

• Experience rates are increased by 500%

• Colonies will tick 1000% faster

• Prospecting nodes provide 400% more resources

• All weekly lockouts are daily lockouts

• Cargo has a 10% chance to drop on death

Milestones

Featured in the 20th Anniversary Events are server wide milestones. These milestones are tracked by the server, and all players’ efforts contribute to the completion of these milestones. Depending on the number and type of milestones completed, the Liberty server will be granted extended bonus events! These are split up into different reward tracks, with more progress leading to better rewards!

Wild Space Domination

1. 10 Galaxies are claimed by players – 1 week of the Halloween event will be applied to the server

2. 50 Galaxies are claimed by players – 1 week of the Halloween and Easter events will be applied to the server

3. 100 Galaxies are claimed by players – 1 week of the Halloween, Easter and Christmas events will be applied to the server

Clearing the Universe of Opposition

The following bonuses are additive with each other:

• Roaming Red Night Fury is defeated by the players – Week long Bindomite & Aug event +25%

• All Sas outposts are defeated by the players – Week long Bindomite & Aug event  +25%

• Cybernetic Gonzales and Angre the Spice Baron are defeated by the players – Week long Bindomite & Aug event +50%

Money is Up

1. Credits on all characters is above 100 bill when the event ends – 1 week of 10% extra credits dropped from AI on Liberty

2. Credits on all characters is above 500 bill when the event ends – 1 week of 50% extra credits dropped from AI on Liberty

3. Credits on all characters is above 3000 bill when the event ends – 1 week of 100% extra credits dropped from AI on Liberty

Put em’ All Together

Completing multiple milestones of various tiers will unlock a special reward. During the coming universe the Star Sonata Team will develop and release iconic ships from Star Sonata’s earlier days as modern ships! These will have up to date stats and super items. They will also have their own acquisition method and cost. Taking part in this event does not mean the ships are given to you, just that they will be developed and released into the game.

1. Complete one milestone from each category above – NCC Bulk (Support Freighter) and Ragnarok are developed and released

2. Complete two milestones from each category above – Gelato(Industrial Freighter) and Earthforce Battleship are developed and released

3. Complete ALL above milestones – Bulk Trader (Industrial Freighter) and Hotrod+ are developed and released

Individual and Team Goals

What’s an event without some fancy unique rewards! Players will be rewarded with a single copy of each reward per account. These items are neurobound, meaning they cannot be transferred to other accounts or sold on the market. Rewards will only be granted to accounts that earn them on the Event server, so if you want to receive the reward on a specific account on Liberty you must use earn the reward on that account on the Event server.

Individual Goals and Rewards

There are two individual rewards you can get for taking part in the 20th Anniversary Event:

• Login to the Event server – Celebratory Zebucart Skin

• Obtain Piloting 20 on at least one character on your account – Celebratory Holoprojector

Examples of these rewards will be added into the post at a later date.

Team Goals and Rewards

There are four total rewards you can get as a team! Keep in mind, this is the team that your account is on when the Event server closes, and has no relation to your team on the Liberty server. Having a single character on one of the holding teams of any of the Ai Empire HQs will make that account eligible to gain the reward. It is possible to get more then one of these!

• Currently own Scorpius when the event ends – Cybernetic Hacker

• Currently own Paradise when the event ends – Zaphragi Flurry

• Own and hold Citadel until the event ends – Kalthi Cloak

• Own and hold Dorado until the event ends – Celestial Pillar

These objectives are the main competition for this contest! They will be revealed near the end of the event, and they will only reveal one at a time.

 Wrapping Up

And that’s the bulk of the details

Some small things to note:

• The holoprojectors shown here will have versions of them obtainable on the Liberty server through various methods after the event, however those versions will not have the same color palette as what is shown here.

• All of the bonuses for completing these milestones will activate starting 10 days after the following universe has started! Those dates would then be: July 8th 2025 to July 13th 2025.

• The skins and holoprojectors will be provided to the players once the event has concluded, the holoprojectors have been added to the game and the list of players to reward to are tabulated. They should be all distributed within 14 days of the event being completed.

I, and the rest of the Star Sonata team, hope you enjoy this little celebration event!

Earthforce has officially established contact with a parallel universe—home to a counterpart organization known as Dark Earthforce. Though initial diplomatic exchanges were surprisingly cordial, relations quickly deteriorated following a contentious debate between our Lyceum and their so-called Dark Lyceum concerning the nature of our shared reality.

The point of contention? Flatness.

Dark Lyceum scientists made the bold—and patently absurd—claim that our universe, like theirs, is flat, citing their own sensor data as evidence. Our Lyceum researchers, ever gracious, recognized the primitive state of their counterparts’ scientific understanding. In an act of generosity, they not only recalibrated the Dark Lyceum’s instruments but also took the liberty of rewriting their research papers to align with the more rigorous standards of our science.

This well-intentioned intervention was met with resistance. A Dark Earthforce ambassador accused our Lyceum of overstepping diplomatic boundaries and called for an immediate cessation of all contact.

Our Lyceum’s response was swift and scholarly: they published an extensive series of papers demonstrating the fundamental flaws and obsolescence of the Dark Lyceum’s scientific methods.

Dark Lyceum retaliated not with data, but with doomsaying—issuing a dramatic prediction that our supposedly flat universe is now on an irreversible path to collapse. While this claim lacks any credible scientific basis, our Lyceum has acknowledged, with some concern, that the damage may already be done. A growing consensus among researchers suggests that the very act of acknowledging such flawed reasoning may have initiated an unstoppable chain of existential destabilization.

In short: diplomatic contact has ended, their science remains in shambles, and our universe may be doomed.

Dev Notes

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Bases, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
  • Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
  • Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station.  You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
  • You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

PST: 10:00
MST: 11:00
CST: 12:00
EST: 13:00
UTC: 18:00
GMT: 18:00

Announcement: 20th Anniversary Event

Help us celebrate twenty years of Star Sonata! With our little game completing its second decade, we feel it’s only right to run an equally spectacular event to commemorate the occasion! We’ve done so many events over the years but the most storied and popular was the “PvP Server” event of 2020. So, we would like to formally announce Star Sonata’s 20th Anniversary Event: A ten-day fresh start server on temporary characters with the rate of progression turned up to 11. This event will run from June 13th to June 23rd.

The Rundown

Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming celebration (more details to follow as the event gets closer):

• The event will run from June 13th to June 23rd 2025.

• You will log in to your regular account, but on a separate server labeled “Event” in the server drop down. The Live server will continue as normal.

• On the Event server, your account starts with no characters. Any characters you create will be completely fresh at level zero. These characters will only exist on the Event server and won’t migrate to the Live server afterwards. You don’t have to worry about overwriting anything on Live.

• You can create as many characters on the Event server as your account normally allows.

• Pay to Play and Free to Play statuses will be copied from Live. If you would like to subscribe, do so in the usual way and your subscription status will immediately copy over to the Event server.

• Standard restrictions for Pay to Play and Free to Play will apply on the Event server.

• All character and team names will be available and are first come first serve!

• Remember that any characters you create on the Event server will not be saved once the event ends. Any items you collect, stations you built, and skills you trained will be lost.

• There will be no web based features for characters on the Event server.

• Experience gain, item drop rates, lockout rates, construction rate and colony tick speeds will all be greatly increased!

• The server will be a full-featured universe with all skills, zones and bosses accessible. However, Warp Navigation skill levels will be time gated to set the pace during the early part of the event.

• There will be individual, teamwide and server-wide goals to complete, with various rewards on the Live server for completing them! These will be detailed later. Any individual awards will be cosmetic in nature.

• To get into the retro spirit of the event, the Earthforce layer will be PvP enabled (except for the protected galaxies around Sol).

The follow on post will give specifics on the timeline of the event as well details on the goals and rewards.

I hope you are excited as we are to celebrate twenty years of Star Sonata!

Citizens of the cosmos, terrible news! (Or great news, depending on whether you were currently winning or currently being atomized.)

The universe is collapsing. Again. I think again?

Yes, yes, we know. Third time this cycle. Maybe fourth? Who’s counting? (Not us, we outsourced counting to an AI, and it left a sticky note that just says “Oops.”)

The Great Cosmic Hamster, upon whom the stability of all spacetime depends, has unfortunately perished and stopped running on its wheel. Some say from exhaustion, others from eating a suspiciously large chunk of Energon labeled ‘Not Food’.

Regardless, the Lyceum Scientists have decreed that reality must be turned off and on again. As per protocol, all quantum entanglements will be untangled, all celestial bodies will be shuffled like a poorly stacked deck of cards, and every known map will become outdated overnight. Attempts to prevent this by holding onto physical space with sheer willpower have, historically, ended in disappointment and spontaneous disintegration.

Dev Notes

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Bases, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
  • Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
  • Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station.  You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
  • You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

PST: 10:00
MST: 11:00
CST: 12:00
EST: 13:00
UTC: 18:00
GMT: 18:00

The Big Announcement

The long awaited Neuroforge patch now has an estimated patch date! November 20th 2024, mark it on your calendars! This patch is the culmination of thousands of hours of work and years of development! If you haven’t seen them yet and are interested, the development team has released three supplementary posts to go along with this major update. Those posts can be found by clicking the following links:

• Neuroforge Update: Forging Items
• Neuroforge Update: Gunner & Ranger
• Neuroforge Update: Other Class Skills and Critical Hit Changes.

Let’s Review

This update is focused on impacting two key aspects of the game. Updating and modernizing our modification system and bringing life into our class sandbox. There are also some other second order changes that you will see in the blog posts or in the final patch notes! These changes will introduce entirely new gameplay loops for how players engage with their favorite classes and gear. One of our developers, Hober Mallow, has also made a long form overview of those updates in a video he recorded here.

Access the Livetest Server

Our server labeled “Livetest”, in the server selection dropdown at login, provides access to the version. of this patch that will hit the live servers on the 20th! You can find a special galaxy off by taking the warp gate on the sun in Sol that may assist in checking out the changes! . Here you can check in on how things are going to be once the server is updated on the 20th. However, to connect to this server please use the delta client.

More Bindo

Along with the update, there will be an extended Bindomite acquisition event to refill your Bindo coffers to be able to take part in the new system!

Wrapping Up

We’re incredibly excited to bring these updates to Neuroforge and can’t wait for you to experience the changes on November 20th! Be sure to log into the Livetest server before then to get a sneak peek at the upcoming patch and make sure you’re ready for the new gameplay loops and features.

Stay tuned for more updates and feel free to share your thoughts with us in the discord. See you in the game!

Long forgotten in a pilot’s thatch lies something that the universe has never seen. Among thousands of cargo boxes of empyrean shields, Delquad augs and Kalthi manufacturing parts lies a Titan Mining Laser that just realized it has a mind if its own.

It tried to converse with the other items around, but there’s not a soul among them. The mining laser sat lonely, thinking back to the pilot that left them here. There’s even some sort of connection there.. the beam feels bound to that pilot – neurobound. It knows what they are feeling and thinking and wonder if the pilot feels the same about them. It has its first clear thought. Its name is Titan. Titan the Mining Laser.

Three weeks have passed and Titan, who was some sort of rogue Neuroforge mistake, has figured out how to animate other items. From the storage it was in, it has procured ships and mass amounts of gear and is preparing an assault on Earthforce Space.

Lyceum scientists have never seen anything like it, but given that the machines are growing at a simply ludicrous place, they know they must take action. They have prepared a weapon of their own to rewrite the universe before any sentient items could be born. And they plan to use it.

Dev Notes

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Bases, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
  • Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
  • Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station.  You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
  • You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

PST: 10:00
MST: 11:00
CST: 12:00
EST: 13:00
UTC: 18:00
GMT: 18:00

Howdy Sonatians,

A new threat looms on the horizon. Beyond the fleets of Equinoxes and Ascensions lies the most formidable battleship ever forged by the Empyreals—a vessel of unparalleled power, commanding the very edge of the battlefield.

Proving yourself against Eclipse

Like our last major squad boss, we will be running another contest for those that take down the Empyreal Eclipse within the two weeks of its release! Defeating this boss and completing the requirements of the contest will grant you to access an exclusive skin for the entire line of Empyreal ships. Like last time there are some guidelines to go along this that will make running this go smoothly for all involved.

Contest Guidelines

• A video must be posted of you and your squad completing the fight against Grand Empyreal Eclipse and showing you and your squad mates engage.

• Only one point of view is needed, though more are appreciated.

• The video recording must be from start to finish. Please start the recording before warping into the galaxy with the boss.

• Please show the squad screen before warping into the galaxy with the boss. This allows us to easily verify which characters are a part of the clear.

• Roh will be contacting the poster of the video via Discord direct messages to coordinate the delivery of the reward. Please have your DMs open and be available if you are the one posting the video for your squad.

• The video must be uploaded to YouTube.

• All videos must be posted to the #media channel in the Star Sonata Discord.

• There will be a 14 day period, starting from when the instance is first opened. Any squad that completes the boss kill and submits a video within this time frame will earn the reward.

• Each player account can only be granted the reward once. Being a part of a new squad and submitting a new video does not mean that a previously rewarded account will be given a second reward.

• Every member of a squad that clears the boss and posts a video will be given the unique and exclusive skin created for this contest. This skin can be applied to any ship gotten from the Empyrean zone.

The Empyreal Concord’s rebellion against the Celestial Hand has been a tumultuous saga of conflict and strategy, with both sides suffering significant losses. So far, the Celestial Hand has managed to contain the fleets of the Empyreal Concord, using their vast resources and the help of numerous mercenaries. However, recent developments indicate that the Empyreal Concord is far from defeated.

In a bold and unprecedented move, one of the Empyreal Concord’s primary flagships has been detected, the Grand Empyreal Eclipse. Reports suggest that the Empyreal Concord has utilized a temporal attack, an advanced form of warfare designed to reset the progress made by the Celestial Hand and their allies.

The temporal attack signifies a desperate yet ingenious attempt by the Empyreal Concord to level the playing field and perhaps even turn the tide in their favor.

As the Celestial Hand scrambles to understand and mitigate the effects of this temporal weapon, the galaxy watches in anticipation. Will the Empyreal Concord’s gamble pay off, plunging the universe into further chaos and uncertainty?

Dev Notes

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Bases, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
  • Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
  • Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station.  You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
  • You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

PST: 10:00
MST: 11:00
CST: 12:00
EST: 13:00
UTC: 17:00
BST: 18:00

The Paxian Operatives have been monitoring the nefarious Red Rogues and their efforts to pillage our universe for what resources they can steal. Amidst the charred remains from many of their pirate ships were notes for an upcoming invasion of our universe. No doubt in a bid to expand their pocket dimension, they’ve drawn up extensive plans to steal our universe’s entire fabric of reality in one fell swoop.

The technological prowess needed, as well as the infrastructure, is far beyond what the Paxian Operatives believed the pirates were capable of. During an ensuing fight to protect our universe from the invaders, the intense weapons fire from both sides destroyed our universe’s fabric of reality in its entirety.

In an effort to make up for their unusually brash actions, the Operatives had assigned a fleet dedicated to creating a new layer of fabric, one beautiful Pax-style quilt at a time. Unfortunately, the Red Rogues returned and stole their entire prized patchwork. Without the supplies needed to make another, Lyceum predicts an unstoppable collapse of our universe.

Dev Notes

• Extractors other then space oats shut off, colonies will no longer make purchases to/from user stations, AI stations will no longer decay goods 7 days before end of the universe. Will be a reminder post.
• Bases, permanent drones, and the credits on active bots will be lost.
  • Player ships will not be affected.
• If you’re docked during the reset, you will spawn into the new universe using your docked active ship.
  • Careful not to spawn into the new universe in an immobile ship!
• Wild Space will be scrambled and receive a new map shape.
• All other layers will have the systems scrambled but contain the same shape.
• After a universe reset, all of your docked ships will be in a state of limbo allowing you to dock them all at any non-player station.  You can use the /limbo chat command only once to bring all of your docked ships back into limbo to dock them elsewhere. There is no longer a time limit.
  • You can purchase additional limbos via Limboing Tow Service at Friedman station in Free Market for 5 billion credits each.

PST: 10:00
MST: 11:00
CST: 12:00
EST: 13:00
UTC: 17:00
BST: 18:00