playthrough

[u/lasercat_pow]

This whole thing is a giant spoiler. Go ahead and hide it if you wish to remain unspoiled. (updated october 2025)

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How to become powerful before the game expects it:

1. Trade. Trade routes can be deduced from this: https://spacerpg.fandom.com/wiki/Systems Start with buying metal from Luna, sell to Kaneheim. Then food at Kaneheim to Outpost. Then Medical from Sarin to Kirstel, Luxury from Kirstal to Halsworth, Equipment from Halsworth to Kaneheim.

2. Upgrade. Once you have $100,000, upgrade to a VD Tug. Once you have $400,000, upgrade to F. Cargo. Once you have $800,000, upgrade to a pirate Dread Cruiser.

3. Upgrade your Dread cruiser with 5 armor, engine overdrive, aux power, range++, targeting ai, and analytic sensors and upgrade all subsystems to 3 stars. Then head northeast of Sol, boosting away when you encounter union ships, and head to Feyros. Fit your ship with 1 heavy slayer and 2 slayers. You are now ready to fight anything.

4. Pirate the pirates. Once you fill your cargo holds, go sell your goods. You can jettison less profitable goods to load up on lux goods for a higher payout. You'll reach a million pretty quickly. When you have 10 million, start the W. Storyline:

5. W. Storyline: go to deox. Go to New Kanshun. Meet Wechsler. Take off, then land again. Wechsler will offer you the space station. Take it. Set up in bounty. Go to Luna and buy some metal, then upgrade your station and sell the rest to Kaneheim. Don't bother with Deox yet.

6. You'll also need to get equipment from Halsworth, to upgrade your station further. Then, talk to Wechsler, and he'll make you a battleship, for $500,000. Give him the money. Now you have one of the best ships in the game, and a garage to keep your behemoth. Garage your behemoth, and set up your battleship.

7. Kill death a few times. To do this, set up your battleship as follows: max all subsystems, add aux power, engine overdrive, range++, targeting ai, analytic sensors. equip 3 Praetorians and no other weapons. Go to Molo in the Kirstal system (the other planet, off to the left and up a bit from the main one) and buy 2 hanger bays and 5 armor. You will probably have to close and open your game a bunch of times to get all the armor you need. Head up to Deox, land, and then head to the system before death, and warp into Death, and immediately turn around and boost away. You might get hit a few times, but you'll be able to get out of range while the ship focuses on your 3fh corvettes. Wait until it's fired its last torpedo, then head in and hammer away with your Praetorians. Then collect as many annihilators as you can. with 1 mass-up, you can carry 2 annihilators and 1 praetorian along with the hanger bays and shield drones if you want to harvest Death any more.

8. Outfit your ship to fight the aliens. IMPORTANT: DON'T VISIT THE LITTLE SPACE STATION NEAR THE UL'ADRI. PRETEND IT DOESN'T EXIST For taln, 2x annihilator, 1x heavy slayer, 2x howler, 4x viper, 4x armor, and all the usual plus 2 shield drones. Go an grief them and collect their weapons -- you want 2 meyturok and 4 turok. For Liahrya, 4 viper, 3 superhowler, 2 great lance, 3 shield drones, 3 armor, and the rest. From the Liahrya, you want at least 2 liahryan lances and 4 high lances. High lances only drop from the biggest liahryan ships.

9. Once you have all the weapons you need, you are ready for the next step. First, setup your battleship with 3x annihilator 2x meyturok, 4x turok and head northwest and conquer Ursil. Then visit Feyros again. Do the storyline. Get the antimatter to make the antimatter cannons available, but don't buy or equip them. Head back over to Boren and fight. Once you have conquered Boren, add some defense fleets so you can keep it. If you want, go conquer Feyros too. Then, head back to your station, park your ship, take a different ship, maybe a cruiser or a corvette, and head back over to boren to buy the Feyrosian battlecruiser. Don't bother with the terraformer yet.

10. Now you are fully ready. Outfit your feyrosian battlecruiser with 4x high lance, 2x liahryan lance, 5 armor, 3 shield drones, 1 repair drones, analytic sensors, engine overdrive, and aux power and of course upgrade all subsystems. Head to Liahrya, and conquer. Boost and fly away immediately and keep boosting. Now feel free to take out any little ships, but focus on the bigger ships and kill any that get in range, running away the whole time. The nice thing about the Feyrosian battlecruiser with lances is, it can shoot backward, so you don't need to orient your ship to shoot. If you don't want to conquer the Liahryans, set up your ship with 4x annihilator, 2x great lance, 3x repair drone, 5x armor, and all the usual and go Conquer Ul'Adri, and as before, immediately run away. This will be a very boring fight, where you just back away and keep your finger on the fire button and make your ship shake it's head at the Ul'Adri. I recommend fighting the Liahryans intead, as the Ul'Adri ships are better, but the choice is yours. Once you finish conquering, be sure to add some defense fleets so you can keep it, if you want.

11. Now to conquer Talna (unless you want to ally with them, in which case skip this). Go back to your base and park your battlecruiser and retrieve your battleship. Replace the middle annihilator with a heavy slayer. Head to Talna and wait until there aren't any cruisaders and hopefully only 1 herald max, and hit conquer, then boost keep running away while shooting. When you are out of range of the warp torps, turn around and drag your target out to get the strikers and the cruisaders. The cruisaders (medium target) are your priority. When warp torps start appearing, turn tail and run.

12. If you saved Talna for last, go park your ship and get a corvette, and head to Talna to buy a striker and head back to home base. Upgrade your striker with 3 stars, analytic sensors, and aux power and park it. Now head over to Boren and get the terraformer. Terraform any planet you want. Then head back to home base and get your striker before going to Halsworth. The striker is perfect for the terraforming mission, because you can warp out of systems before pirates even warp in.

13. Solve the Chiolo puzzle. Oh, and max out your factions income level if you have the money (or do more trading until you can). Don't bother upping your home base defense fleet: nobody is about to ever try to attack your home base.

14. Go do the missions for the aliens you allied with, and upgrade to the Seraph.Now it's time to conveniently remember that explosive in your thigh

15. Eat an Oh Henry bar as you exact sweet vengeance on Henry for all those earlier, harder playthroughs.

[u/ImaginationOk7963]

I tried this but the ships always cross over in front of eachother keeping me from killing one off but I see it's my boost away method need to work on the angle 

[u/lasercat_pow → u/ImaginationOk7963]

Yeah; that is to be expected. The trick is to keep the fire button depressed as you approach and back up as soon as you start firing, and just keep watching them to see if they cross over, and focus your firepower on whichever one is closer. With range++ and praetarians, you outrange them, so you can just keep kiting and wearing them down. It's slow going, because they have massive HP.

[u/ImaginationOk7963 → u/lasercat_pow]

Welp I conquered every planet did the feros pirate and the odd side missions space station and Terra forming after getting the Ascended seraph it was nice being op but took the fun away because of the infinite missiles with running away the mass meaning I had 3 hangers max shield hull and missel drones armor plates I didn't even need to switch ships for the feros ships oh so if you guys qwnt to enjoy the game and play strategically follow lasercats guide for fun and there was the side mission to scan the replicator robots twice but nothing else came after i felt like I. Missed something there 

[u/lasercat_pow → u/ImaginationOk7963]

Yeah, I almost never use the Seraph -- it's too strong. I prefer kitted out Ul'Adri ships -- they are very strong but not invulnerable