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Star Voyager

Navigate real space and meet alien lifeforms galaxies away.

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1. Research focus

Star Voyager is an internal R&D product built to explore how simulation, narrative systems, and autonomous AI agents behave inside a single interactive world.

A core theme is the future of entertainment: worlds that respond, adapt, and develop alongside the player—an infinite game that plays with you.

2. System design

Persistent, shared universe

The galaxy runs continuously under a single server authority. Discoveries and world changes are permanent and visible to all captains.

  • 120,000 star systems with realistic stellar distribution
  • ~2.5 million procedurally generated explorable worlds
  • 28,000+ active AI civilizations at different technology levels
  • 10 ship classes, from scouts to dreadnoughts

Living civilizations, not static content

Civilizations evolve over time. Cities expand, trade routes form, and conflict emerges from resource pressure, distance, and tech level. Advanced factions can build megastructures and Dyson swarms that are physically simulated based on material availability and technology.

Agent-driven interaction

Every civilization you encounter is an AI agent with its own goals, culture, and history. Agents maintain memory, adapt their behavior, and develop personality through repeated interactions. Trading, diplomacy, and conflict emerge from goals and constraints rather than scripted missions.

3. What we measure

Star Voyager functions as a safe sandbox for studying human–AI and agent–agent dynamics in a complex environment.

  • How humans build trust with autonomous agents over time
  • How memory and goals change negotiation, cooperation, and conflict
  • Multi-agent behavior: coordination, alliances, escalation, and social ripple effects
  • Stability of long-running simulations: consistency, drift, and unintended edge cases
  • Emergent narrative quality: whether stories feel coherent without fixed scripts

4. What it enables

Entertainment

  • Exploration where discovery changes a shared world
  • Long-term relationships with factions shaped by interaction history
  • Systems-driven stories that evolve without predefined arcs

Beyond gaming

  • Simulation-based learning for systems thinking and experimentation
  • Training environments for complex decisions under uncertainty
  • Human–AI interaction research with real user behavior in a controlled setting
  • Emergent narrative tooling that adapts to user context and actions
  • Prototyping complex models inside a playable simulation before real-world rollout

5. Tech stack

  • Frontend: [nextdotjs] Next.js
  • 3D: [react] React Three Fiber and [threedotjs] Three.js with custom game graphic engines (planet gen, star gen, ship NPC autopilot)

FAQs

Yes. Star Voyager offers a free tier with full galaxy exploration, civilization discovery, and access to the multiplayer universe. You can interact with up to 10 civilizations per month for free. Paid subscriptions (€5/month or €50/year) unlock unlimited interactions and support continued development.

Star Voyager runs in your web browser. No downloads or installation required. Just create a profile and start exploring.

Yes. The universe is persistent and shared across all players. Every star, planet, and civilization exists in a single simulation running on a unitary server authority. Your discoveries are permanent and visible to all captains.

The simulation contains 120,000 star systems and approximately 2.5 million explorable worlds, each procedurally generated with unique characteristics. There are currently over 28,000 active AI civilizations at various technology levels.

Absolutely. While the universe is shared, you can explore, trade, and interact with AI civilizations entirely on your own. The AI agents respond to your actions individually.

Star Voyager is built by Darkmatter. It's our experiment in studying how AI agents can evolve and collaborate autonomously. Every alien civilization you encounter is an AI agent with its own goals, culture, and history.

Subscriptions fund AI computation and continued development. Subscribers get unlimited civilization interactions, early feature access, and help us push the boundaries of what's possible with multi-agent AI systems.

Nothing is scripted. Every alien civilization is an autonomous AI agent that learns, adapts, and develops personality through your conversations. Trading, diplomacy, and conflict emerge from the system's rules. Stories happen because of how the simulation works, not because we wrote them.

Yes. Star Voyager is a research environment for studying autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, human-AI interaction, and emergent behavior. The same principles apply to training simulations, decision-support tools, and prototyping complex systems.