The game map
This is SAGE as you know it from playing: the things you own, the places you go, and what connects them. Every star links to that concept’s guide, and the connections say what actually happens in the game — not what the code calls it.
Start from You: every read in the SDK begins with who you are, and every concept on this map is reachable from there — your fleets and everything they do across the top, the galaxy and what you plant on it below, the starbase economy to the right, and where you stand with the factions along the bottom.
The same structure in words:
- You rise through Council Rank, which unlocks crafting habs and claim stakes.
- You command fleets, which carry cargo, mine asteroids to fill the hold, scan for SDUs, fight, and travel by warp and subwarp — journeys that chain into Plans.
- Fleets cross the starmap, whose bodies hold claim stakes, and dock at starbases, which host crafting habs that run crafting, and where you trade through markets.
- You stand with a faction, accruing loyalty points that earn a share of each epoch’s rewards.
Once you can name the concept, the code follows: the API map shows the same universe from the SDK’s side — every entry point and the calls that connect them.