WHY BLOCKS DISSOLVE
· A ring holding ARC GOAL or more blocks in an unbroken row (see HUD) collapses into the hole — the gold bracket shows exactly which run cleared.
· Gravity then drops everything inward. If the fallen blocks form a new full run, it clears too — that's a CHAIN.
· Two arcs cleared by one drop = QUASAR. Deeper rings pay more.
THE VOYAGE · Purge every ORIGIN BLOCK — the glowing crystal matter each system is born with (see ORIGIN LEFT on the HUD) — to collapse the system. Campaign worlds purge in TWO STAGES: stage Ⅱ reforms the same world deeper and faster; clear it to warp onward. Each warp offers an ANOMALY relic.
· ❄ Frozen origin blocks crack into plain origin blocks — clear them twice. ☄️ Comet-forged gold ore pays +150×world per block in an arc.
· 🔥 Vents regrow origin blocks · ⚡ Lightning culls your tallest column · 🌀 The disk itself drifts · ✨ Time pockets slow the fall.
· ☣ Toxin drips corrode your placed blocks back into origin matter · 🌋 Volcano blocks (fire worlds 6+) lob lava bombs onto your stack until you clear them.
· 👾 From world 8, VISITORS warp in: raiders and 💀 saboteurs dump junk, 🛸 harvesters steal your blocks — but 🤝 traders gift gold ore and 🔧 engineers clear origin blocks. The 🎯 POINT DEFENSE anomaly guns down the hostile ones.
YOUR TOOLS · DECK: hold banks the piece; a full deck rotates — you get your oldest banked piece back. ⏏️ Eject (relic) discards a piece outright.
· Runs earn ✦ SALVAGE — spend it in the HANGAR on your vessel.
· Your vessel works: drones laser the topmost origin blocks to keep your stack low, and 📦 supply pods CHARGE an origin block into a ⭐ POWER CELL — clear an arc through it for bonus points and ✦ salvage.
THE CAMPAIGN · The voyage is 21 worlds — world 20 is the EVENT HORIZON, world 21 is RINGDOWN itself. Purge it for TRANSCENDENCE, then start anew or enter ∞ THE DEEP: endless randomized worlds that keep accelerating, forever.
· GUARDIANS hold worlds 5, 10, 15 and 21: stage Ⅱ summons a boss the world cannot collapse past. Cleared arcs wound it — quasars hit harder — while it barrages, corrodes and shears the disk. Kill it to warp.
· 📅 DAILY MISSION: a 3-world sprint under today's modifier, identical for every pilot on the board. One-shot — no saves, no retries, always PILOT. Finish it for a ✦ salvage bounty that grows with your 🔥 streak (day 1: ✦200 → day 5+: ✦400); fall short and each purged world still pays ✦25.
· FOUR DIFFICULTIES, picked on the title: 🌱 CADET (gentle fall, arcs 8→11, ×0.6 score, no trophies) · ⚔ PILOT (the true orbit: arcs 10→13) · 🔥 ACE (faster, denser origin fields, +1 arc, tougher guardians, ×1.5) · 💀 VOID (relentless gravity, buried pockets from world 6, +2 arcs, 160% guardians, ×2.2). Your mode is stamped on the board.
· Your voyage auto-saves after every block — close the tab or hit 💾 SAVE & EXIT in the pause menu and RESUME from the title with the exact same board. If you fall, ⟲ RETRY the same stage for ✦10×world salvage.
· Campaign formations are FIXED — every pilot faces the same stars, so routes can be mastered and the board is fair. Only ∞ THE DEEP rolls wild.