Oct 3, 2026 · From Ashes to Orbit
The planet is home: rewriting the goal
Traders kept landing and leaving, which made an escape ending make no sense. So the rocket became a rescue.
The original goal was to build a rocket and leave. Then traders arrived in the design, landing and taking off freely, and the escape premise fell apart. If they can leave, why can you not?
The fix was to turn the story around. Most of the crew are still asleep in orbit. The rocket flies up to bring them down, three flights in all, and the game carries on afterwards.
It changed the tone of everything. New content now supports settling in: more crew, more comfort, a colony worth coming home to.