**COSMIC SALVAGER**

You are Captain Kael Voss, a lone salvager hunting five Ancient Data Cores scattered across five forgotten sectors of deep space. Clear pirate waves, board and destroy a Merchant Dreadnought, survive planetary entry, fight through alien surface levels, and defeat a unique boss monster to claim each core. When you have all five, decide the fate of the stars.


**CONTROLS**

- **WASD / Arrows** — fly / move
- **SPACE or K** — shoot / attack
- **E** — interact (dock, board, salvage, enter planet)
- **TAB** — switch weapon
- **M** — star map
- **G** — hyperspace to next sector
- **H** — hangar / ships
- **T** — trade at stations
- **N** — talk to station NPC
- **R** — repair drone
- **F** — deploy fleet wingmen
- **L** — captain's log
- **F5 / F9** — save / load
- **ESC** — pause

**THE LOOP**

Kill 3 pirates → 3 more spawn → kill those → 3 more → kill all 9 → Dreadnought arrives → board and destroy it → fly to the planet → survive entry → clear the surface → defeat the boss → collect the Data Core → hyperspace to the next sector. Repeat five times.

Die and you respawn at your sector checkpoint — nothing is permanently lost.