01
Latency is a first-class physical law.
Every dogfight resolves in under 40 ms — measured at the player's joystick, not the server core.
38.2 MS
P99 INPUT-TO-FRAME
02
Persistence is honest, not eventual.
A dropped cargo crate stays where it fell across server meshes, restarts, and downtime — for as long as you keep the log.
∞ SHARD
OBJECT LIFETIME
03
The world tessellates before it scales.
Each star system is partitioned into 64-km cells handed off mid-flight — players never see the seam, the simulator always does.
1 024 CELLS
DYNAMIC AUTHORITY
04
Telemetry beats opinion, every patch night.
Live readouts from 18 hangar bays decide which subsystems ship Friday — we stopped guessing in 2.27.
18 / 18
RIGS REPORTING