Automate your factory in space. Build logistic railguns to feed the production lines of your ever growing machines. Gravity disrupts your trajectories - master it. Connect your machines over the vast void. Find resource rich moons and asteroid streams to harvest and mine, but beware of the Locals.

"Pay the gravity tax... your factories will become a vortex if they grow too vast."

- Rock Paper Shotgun

AUTOMATE

In Asema, you build a sprawling industrial production system in a solar system. You start as a single Pioneer drone, manually harvesting resources and physically gathering asteroids into your first basic refineries. As you scale, you construct a vast logistical network where conveyor belts don't exist - instead, you manage momentum, distance & placement: attaching distributor railguns into your machines, flying heavy haulers to exploit distant moons for more and new resources, aligning massive railgun arrays to automate the flow of physical payloads across the void. The engine handles the complex orbital physics; your job is to design the ultimate automated machine.

Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.

IN SPACE, CONVEYOR BELTS ARE FUTILE

Resources in Asema are physical objects with mass. To automate your production chains, you must master the art of space logistics. Build localized grids by physically locking distributor railguns into place. When a local moon runs dry or is not enough, pack a heavy space hauler, manually fly to an icy asteroid stream you discovered earlier while scouting the space, and establish a new beachhead. To connect your distant outposts, build and align automated long range railgun artillery arrays on moons to fire glowing resource payloads safely across the darkness.

PAY THE GRAVITY TAX

Operating near celestial bodies introduces a unique environmental puzzle: gravity. Your heavy machines will naturally drift toward the nearest gravity wells, such as moons. In Asema, anything can become a gravity well when it has enough mass - even one of your own machines. You don't need to calculate orbital math or plot trajectories: you just need to manage your economy. Build and power dedicated Focus arrays (computational anti-gravity) to keep your grid stable, counter the pull of the moons and gravity wells and keep your factories perfectly positioned.

THE ULTIMATE MACHINE

Climb a vast, branching technology tree to discover increasingly exotic ways to manipulate matter. Expand your operations from the deep gravity well of the inner solar system out into the freezing, distant reach of the Void.

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The Pioneer in Tau Ceti E has been awakened.

The execution of Protocol looms above everything.

But this time, something feels wrong: the Locals have found something that shouldn't be here.

Find out what it is - but prepare for the Protocol.

Start quietly. But as you grow, they will find you.

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