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Strategy guides
Long, worked guides to the decisions that matter: your first day, reading a battle, choosing a target and holding what you take.
How to play Astera Online: a complete guide for new commandersEverything a new commander needs in one read: your first world, the economy, intelligence, your first raid, safe targets, colonies and a daily rhythm.How battles work and how to read a battle reportRounds, shields, retreats and power ratios explained, with the expected losses at each odds and a section-by-section walk through the report.Intelligence: Telescope, Radar, probes and deciding under uncertaintyHow to find a target, measure it and avoid being measured: watch slots by level, Radar warnings, probe accuracy and a routine that turns sightings into decisions.Economy guide: production, storage and what to upgrade nextHow the Works and Store really behave, payback times for producer upgrades, why the Command Core is the true gate and how to keep your stock out of other fleets’ holds.Building a fleet: classes, counters and compositionWhich ships beat which, what higher tiers really buy, how speed and cargo shape a fleet, and how to build against a probe report, with numbers for every hull line.Colonies: when to expand, how to settle and how to keep what you takeA step-by-step path from your first colony slot to a settled world: choosing a neutral planet, timing the 90-minute window, and managing faults, loyalty and transfers afterwards.Galaxy opportunities: pirates, signals, mining, the merchant and the convoyProfit from the galaxy itself: signal odds, pirate levels and ship captures, asteroid and debris mining, equal-value trades, convoy strikes and the weekly event calendar.Defending your worlds: Radar, Aegis, ground guns, posture and recoveryMake every raid on you a bad bet: the layers of a planet’s defence, what to do during a Radar countdown, retreat and support postures, and the protection after a heavy loss.