A New Home. A Lost Way Back.

In 2247, humanity embarks on its first major interstellar colonization mission.

Shortly before reaching its destination, the journey ends in disaster. Only 50 people make it to the alien world of Elyra. Critical data and navigational information are lost — including the coordinates of Earth.

On Elyra, humanity must begin again.

But one day, it intends to return to the stars.

Build a New Colony

Begin with a crash site, limited supplies, and 50 survivors.

Secure food and water, gather resources, and construct housing, production facilities, storage buildings, research centers, and essential infrastructure.

Expand roads and supply networks as you transform a makeshift settlement into an increasingly complex colony.

Develop a Functioning Economy

Resources, production, storage, energy, transportation, and workforce management are all interconnected.

Extract natural resources and process them into materials and products. Build production chains, manage storage capacities, and adapt your economy to the needs of your population and industry.

As your colony grows, its economy becomes increasingly complex.

Research Opens New Possibilities

Much of the knowledge carried by the original expedition was lost in the disaster.

Research new technologies to unlock advanced buildings, production methods, energy sources, and infrastructure.

Your technological journey begins with basic survival — and eventually leads humanity back into space.

Assemble Your Own Advisory Council

As your civilization grows, so does the complexity of managing it.

Hire different advisors to support you in research, economics, colony development, trade, diplomacy, security, and fleet management.

Not every candidate offers the same skills or experience. Decide who you hire and which areas of your civilization deserve the greatest investment.

Explore Elyra and Other Worlds

Survey Elyra, discover resource deposits, and expand into new regions.

Later, your civilization will leave its new home behind and begin exploring the galaxy once again.

Build ships, discover new planets and star systems, establish additional colonies, and secure resources far beyond Elyra.

And somewhere among the stars, there may still be a trail leading back to Earth.

You Are Not Alone

Other intelligent species and civilizations exist throughout the galaxy — and not all of them will react to humanity in the same way.

Some seek trade and diplomatic relations. Others simply want to be left alone. Some are territorial or openly hostile and may see your growing civilization as a threat.

Their levels of technological development also vary greatly.

Some command powerful interstellar civilizations. Others are only taking their first steps into space.

And some have never left their homeworld at all — perhaps unaware that intelligent life exists anywhere beyond their own planet.

For them, humanity may become their first encounter with an alien civilization.

Trade, Diplomacy, and Conflict

Build relationships with other civilizations, establish trade, and decide how humanity should find its place in the galaxy.

But interests can clash, and relationships can change.

If diplomacy fails, you may have to defend what you have built.

Develop ships, assemble fleets, and decide how your military forces should be used.

Something Is Out There

The farther humanity ventures into unexplored regions of the galaxy, the more often it encounters ancient stories, forgotten warnings, and traces of a power many believed had vanished long ago.

Perhaps they are only stories.

Perhaps they are not.

Because somewhere among the stars, something appears to have awakened once again.

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Begin with 50 survivors.

Build a new civilization.

Return to the stars.

Find the lost way back to Earth.

VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH

Survival is only the beginning.