Field instruments / 03

Between the
inhabited places.

A few pressure hulls. An overdue freighter. A long way home.
Generate the worlds, people and working infrastructure of a sparsely inhabited system.

01 / Survey parameters

Shape the system

System role

Role changes livelihoods, not population scale.

PlanetsSettlements

Population per occupied site Survey seed

Same seed + same parameters = same initial survey. Save JSON to preserve subsequent edits.

Refine the survey +

System name Stellar configuration Settlement placement Infrastructure Operating conditions Visiting traffic Security presence Asteroid belt Guarantee a feature

Rerolls use this dossier's original parameters. Locked worlds include their settlements and orbit.

A sparse-world baseline

Usually one or two small settlements. Ships are workplaces, not scenery. Most orbits are quiet.

Temperatures are rough equilibrium estimates. These are playable survey records, not an orbital simulation.

Preparing the survey…