Starborne is a take on the grand-strategy 4X genre with the added powerful impact of being a multiplayer game played in real-time. In Starborne each game will last six months culminating in a decisive endgame.

You start with a fledgling station and as you invest in its infrastructure you will see it take shape and its borders grow, bringing unclaimed territories under your sovereignty. Soon it will be time to build another station with its own unique purpose within your master-plan. Will the next station be a center of research? A military compound? Or an industrial complex?

In Starborne there are multiple paths to success. Spymasters use their gathered intelligence to steer others’ ambitions to their own end. Explorers go on star treks searching for hidden riches and fame while industry moguls establish vast trade networks and utilize the final frontier's boundless resources. Spartan defenders focus on impregnable defenses and use their fleets to protect their sovereignty and that of their allies while Space-Napoleons use their offensive fleets to plunder opponents and pave their path to glory.

On Wednesday the 19th. the Starborne alpha test will commence!  The server will be flung open at exactly 12:00 GMT and here is how this is going to work ...

Because we have received many times more applications than we can accommodate in the test, we are going ask signees to reserve a spot in the alpha on a first come, first served basis.

22 hours before the alpha server opens (Tuesday the 18th. at 14:00 GMT) a webpage will become active, allowing you to reserve a spot in the alpha. At that time you can click the blue button below. Your reservation will be held for 48 hours.  If by that time you have not logged in to the game, your reservation will be forfeit and your spot will become available for others to claim (you can still try to reserve a spot again).  Unclaimed reservations will be made available again every day at 14:00 GMT.

After you've successfully reserved a spot, you get to create a user and will be provided with a download link for the Starborne launcher. 

Fans interested in participating in the Alpha test can sign up now.