STARFADE

StarCraft fought over a hill, a choke and an expansion. STARFADE fights over a gate, a star system and a supply line. Command fleets of warships across whole star systems in real time, from a single frigate up to the sector map, in one continuous zoom.WAR AT THE SCALE OF STAR SYSTEMS

Every system is a battlefield: stars, planets, asteroid belts and stations, linked to the rest of the sector by ancient warp gates.

Gates are the terrain: most ships can only travel through the gates, so the great battles break out in front of them. Hold a gate's control station and your fleets pass freely while the enemy comes out scattered.

One continuous zoom: scroll from a single ship's guns to the whole star system to the sector map without a loading screen.

Intelligence goes stale: out of sensor range the enemy is only a last known position and an estimate that grows vaguer by the minute.
SUPPLY IS THE LIFEBLOOD

Mine, refine, build: mining barges strip the asteroid belts while freighters haul the ore and run the supply lines on their own.

Fleets live on supply: missiles, repairs, fighter rearming and jumps all burn it. Cut a fleet off and it weakens, then falls silent.

Raid the arteries: the weaker side can still win by hunting convoys and freighters behind the front.
CARRIERS, CAPITALS AND TITANS

Command task forces, not three hundred clicks: screens, line ships and carriers take their places in formation by role. Your hands are for the decisions that matter: a battleship's broadside, a carrier's launch, a titan's jump.

Supercarriers: a carrier jumps into the fight and empties its launch tubes, wing after wing.

Variants you can read: every hull comes in variants you choose at the yard, and you can tell them apart on sight.
ONE JUMP CAN BREAK THE LINE

Light a jump beacon: slip a cloaked scout deep behind the enemy's gates and unfold a beacon.

Spool the drive: plan the jump on the sector map. The spool-up is loud: the enemy sees the distortion coming and gets a few seconds to react.

Tear the sky open: the titan rips a rift to the beacon and brings its fleet through, straight past the defences everyone was guarding.
THREE FACTIONS

The Terran Directorate wages war as industry: freighter supply lines, missile barrages, jump bridges and refits that turn an existing fleet into whatever the battle needs.

The Asterian Concord wages war as art: few, elite ships with linked shields, phase jumps to the enemy's flank and gates they can seal shut.

The Veyl wage war as evolution: a living swarm that spreads its reef from system to system, crosses the dark between stars without gates, devours wrecks and adapts to your weapons.
THREE CAMPAIGNS, ONE SECRET
Three story campaigns and a finale: play the war as a Directorate captain turned rebel, as the heir of a dying alien dynasty, and as the first of the Veyl to think "I".

The same war from three sides: what looks like an invasion in one campaign looks very different in the next.

A fleet that carries on: the ships that survive a mission carry over to the next, and your hero ships grow mission by mission.

The gates are not what they seem: every gate anyone wakes dims a star somewhere in the dark.
WAYS TO PLAY
Skirmish against the AI on sector maps of every size.

Online co-op for 2 to 4 commanders against the AI.

Ranked 1v1 and 2v2, and team battles up to 4v4.

Conquest: 30 to 60 star systems, two alliances, played over several sessions. The war is saved and picks up where you left it.