Learn what is out there—and what it means.
Wayward Sun separates finding places, studying places, learning designs, and piecing together history. Beneath those systems is a much larger story spread across Sol—one you are expected to notice, question, and gradually reconstruct for yourself.
What kind of question are you trying to answer?
Understand What Something Is
The Database records what this Captain has actually learned or encountered. Info views use the same semantic model to explain identity, relationships, requirements, current support, and useful next actions without revealing knowledge you have not earned.
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Turn Regional Information Into Places
Explore a region, collect survey data, correlate it, and create location data that can reveal temporary opportunities.
Find New Places to Operate
Exploration is spatial: it discovers opportunities and characterizes hidden subsections of known regions.
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Learn From Known Places
Collect raw evidence from an environment, Study it, and turn that evidence into applicable engineering material.
+Apply What You Learned
Use compatible Studied Science to specialize one existing property on a physical equipment item or hull.
Piece Together the Deeper World
Normal play can surface evidence, records, history, and leads that slowly connect into a much larger picture of what happened—and what may still be happening—in Sol.