Nebulife: Space Sandbox

Earth has 8 billion people. This universe has a few dozen. Plenty of room. Seed life on a real planet and watch what it becomes. Every world in Nebulife runs on the same laws: climate, chemistry, oxygen, mutation. You do not decide what grows. You drop a spark into an ocean, and the planet decides. Microbes first. Then oxygen, bodies, life on the shore. On some worlds, a mind. NO TWO WORLDS END UP ALIKE A red dwarf flares for billions of years and drives its people underground. A world of nothing but sea raises cities that float. Where there is no metal, a mind learns to grow what others forge. A big moon raises tides that pull life ashore, and a giant neighbour takes the impacts that would have ended everything. Stars age, swell and die. THEY REMEMBER YOU Stop an asteroid and they will start to revere you. Throw one and they will not forget it. A civilization that fears the sky builds a shield against it, and sends its ships after yours. When they are ready they call out, and you decide what to answer: teach them, warn them, or say nothing. ONE GALAXY, SHARED Explorers share a cluster of stars and open it one star at a time. Research far enough and you may find that someone got there first: a world they seeded, a people who settled it, a history you can read. Whoever comes after you will find what you left behind. FROM THE GALAXY TO THE GROUND Fly from the spiral of the galaxy down to your cluster, a single star and the surface of a world. Build a colony there. Its buildings follow the planet's gravity, air and stone, and every one has an inside to visit. GO BACK AND CHANGE IT Return to any moment in a world's chronicle and try again. Everything repeats exactly until you do something differently. Once another explorer has seen that moment, it is history, and it stays. SOMETHING FOR EVERY MOOD - Fly one ship with one finger and stop the impact over a world you care about. - Hunt an enemy fleet on the grid, shot by shot. - Fold proteins: a new puzzle every time, from common to legendary. The shape of your fold becomes a gene you can give to any living thing. - Read distant signals by ear, and bring back rare things to send at a world. - Photograph nebulae and distant galaxies with your telescope, and share the shots. - Learn real astronomy with lessons and an encyclopedia written for curious people. Quiet, patient, and yours for as long as you like to watch.