Getting started
Quick start
Learn how to collect resources, develop your first planet, scout a target and prepare a fleet for its first mission.
How it works
Astera Online keeps running while you are offline. Your planets produce resources, queued orders finish and fleets continue their missions. You do not need to keep the game open for these actions to progress.
The Academy teaches the controls in a fast practice session. After joining a galaxy, select your planet and collect resources from the Works into the Store. Resources in the Works cannot pay for construction or flights.
Your next decision
Open Production to see your buildings and queues. Improve the producer for the resource you need. Raise the Command Core if its level blocks the upgrade you want.
Open Fleet to build ships. For a raid, combine armed ships with enough cargo capacity to carry loot. A raid attacks another planet to obtain resources; sending only transports does not provide combat firepower.
Install Uplink before building Telescope or Radar. Before a raid, check protection, a recent probe report, fuel and cargo. Review the ships left defending home and the expected return time. After the mission, read its report before repeating it.