Broadly set in a zero-gravity environment, player and spacecraft movement in the game follows the traditional Newtonian physical vectors while stations adhere to orbital mechanics.
[6][7] Aboard a rescue craft or other salvaged spacecraft, players may define and travel into orbits around planetary bodies and other large naturally occurring astronomical phenomena.
The player begins the game in a derelict de-orbiting space station equipped with only a bottle of oxygen and a jet pack for maneuvering.
As a sandbox game, players are free to choose they're own destiny or explore the demise of the colonial stations by following the in-game storyline.
[7] In both modes, the player must perform ship or station repairs which involve resources which must be discovered and accumulated from within the fictional universe.