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Humanity's new home, won the hard way: the Arks crashed here, and their survivors, the Commanders, built cities from the wreckage. Now it is the frontline of the war.
Alliances claim permanent Prime Mines across 75,000 persistent hexes, and deploy their 15-unit armies to hold them. When an enemy alliance contests a hex, the armies fight an automated battle across short, medium and long range; the victor secures the hex and extracts its Tin, Lithium, Titanium or Tungsten to refine at the alliance's own Alliance Forge.
TERRAIN
75,000 HEX
ZONES
7 LEVELS
ROLE
PVP EXTRACTION
ORES
4 METALS
LIVE RENDER // NUMBERED SERVER SHARDS
SERVER SHARDS
ONE SHARD, ONE SERVER
Each hexagon on the globe is a shard: a game server. Every Commander is aligned to a shard and fights the war there.
OPENS AS IT FILLS
When a shard fills, the next two shards open, and new Commanders are placed automatically into one of them, so every shard starts busy.
NUMBERED IN ORDER
Shards are numbered from 01 in the order they open. The globe is illustrative: the real number grows with the player base.
CROSS-SERVER
Shards are not sealed off. Sanctaris is cross-server, so Commanders from different shards also meet in play that spans servers. Which battles and events cross between shards is in design.
01
01 // THE MAP01 // THE MAP
Seven zone levels, four equal quadrants
NWNESWSE
MAP LAYERS
Apex Core: High Commander
Governor Plateau: District Governor
Alliance base slot
Contested Treasure
Crashed Ark
Buff Building
Stillfield: slower marches
ILLUSTRATIVE // DRAWN FROM THE IN-GAME MAP. Positions are approximate; the counts per quadrant are the current design.
Sanctaris is a single persistent hex map of about 75,000 hexes. Seven zone levels, from L1 at the edge to L7 at the centre, get richer and more dangerous toward the middle, and the four quadrants are built identically so no alliance starts ahead.
L7
Apex Core
The High Commander's seat at the dead centre. Whoever holds it leads the shard, chooses a cabinet and issues Auron gifts to every Commander on it.
L5–L6
Inner Fortress
Major chokepoints and high-tier resource control. High-conflict PvP.
L3–L4
Mid-Territory
Mid-game expansion around the Governor Plateaus and Contested Treasures.
L1–L2
Outer Hives
Baseline harvesting, early progression and most alliance base slots: the hives where alliances start.
EVERY QUADRANT HOLDS
Governor Plateau
1
Contested Treasure
1
Buff Buildings
50
Crashed Arks
50
Forgeite Mines
500
Prime Mines
360
THREE KINDS OF MINE
ALLIANCE
Prime Mines
Permanent sites holding Tin, Lithium, Titanium or Tungsten. Claimed by alliances, with room for up to 7 gatherers depending on location.
SOLO
Pop-Up Mines
Spawn periodically with smaller deposits of any ore, including Auron. One Commander at a time.
PVE
Forgeite Mines
Found along the Sanctaris fault lines and guarded by the Cybernetic Concord. Defeat them level by level to win Forgeite, a special material used only to forge and upgrade equipment.
POP-UP MINES: FIVE RESOURCES
Tin
SILVER ORE
Lithium
CYAN ORE
Titanium
PURPLE ORE
Tungsten
ORANGE ORE
Auron
UNIVERSAL RESOURCE
IN-GAME RENDERS // PRE-ALPHA
SANCTARIS IS PLAYED IN THE PC GAME CLIENT // THIS PAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY
02
02 // HOW THE WAR PLAYS02 // HOW THE WAR PLAYS
Deploy. Contest. Extract.
01
DEPLOY
Send your 15-unit army to a Prime Mine your alliance claims.
02
CONTEST
An enemy alliance moves on the same hex. The mine is now contested.
03
AUTO-BATTLE
The armies fight automatically across short, medium and long range. Your composition decides it.
04
EXTRACT & FORGE
The victor secures the hex, extracts Tin, Lithium, Titanium or Tungsten, and refines it at their Alliance Forge.
03 // SEATS OF POWER // FIVE PLATEAUS03 // SEATS OF POWER // FIVE PLATEAUS
Who rules the shard
Every shard is ruled from its five plateaus: a Governor Plateau in each quadrant and the Apex Core at the centre. Alliances fight for them and elect governors, and one governor can rise to lead the whole shard.
IN DESIGN // NAMES, LEVELS AND SCHEDULES MAY CHANGE
4 PER SHARD // ONE PER QUADRANT
District Governors
Each quadrant's Governor Plateau holds a district governor building. Win the battle for it and place an outpost over the building, and your alliance elects a District Governor, who gains attack, defence, HP and fleet size while in office and has Auron gifts to give to the alliance.
1 PER SHARD // THE APEX CORE
High Commander
The leader of the shard, like a president. A District Governor whose alliance wins the battle for the High Commander building on the Apex Core becomes High Commander, chooses a cabinet and issues Auron gifts to the whole shard.
ALL FIVE PLATEAUS
Stillfields
March speed is reduced on all five plateaus, so every approach to a seat of power is slow and takes planning.
BUFF BUILDINGS // 50 PER QUADRANT
ILLUSTRATION
IN DEVELOPMENT
Kinetic Strike Array
ORBITAL RAIL BOMBARDMENT
A Buff Building. The alliance that holds it gains its buff for as long as it keeps control.
CAPTURABLE BUFF BUILDING
ILLUSTRATION
IN DEVELOPMENT
Aegis Shield Matrix
HEAVY DEFLECTOR DEFENSE BUNKER
A Buff Building. The alliance that holds it gains its buff for as long as it keeps control.
CAPTURABLE BUFF BUILDING
ILLUSTRATION
IN DEVELOPMENT
Nanite Regeneration Hub
BIO-SYNTHETIC CATHEDRAL REPAIR FACILITY
A Buff Building. The alliance that holds it gains its buff for as long as it keeps control.
CRASH SITE // ILLUSTRATIONSURVIVORSTECHNOLOGY TICKETS
ARK WRECKS // 50 PER QUADRANT
What the Arks carried is still out there.
ARKS PER QUADRANT
50
EXPLORATION
DAILY
EXPLORATION REPORT // CRASHED ARKS
The Arks came down across Sanctaris, 50 in every quadrant. Explore them every day: on your own to rescue survivors, and with your alliance to recover technology tickets for alliance technology. Rescued survivors join your city, and each one gives a small bonus.
WITH YOUR ALLIANCE
TECHNOLOGY TICKETS
ON YOUR OWN
SURVIVORS
05
05 // MILITARY RANK // EARNED IN BATTLE05 // MILITARY RANK // EARNED IN BATTLE
Rise through 15 ranks
Every Commander starts as a Cadet Recruit. Merit from ranked battles promotes you, and every rank adds attack, defence, HP and fleet size. Rank is earned on the battlefield and can never be bought.
AT HIGH MARSHAL OF THE FORGE: +28% ATTACK, DEFENCE AND HP · +70,000 FLEET SIZE
Enlisted
TIERS 0–4
Cadet Recruit
0 MERIT · +0%
Line Trooper
300 MERIT · +2%
Specialist Trooper
1,300 MERIT · +4%
Strike Sergeant
4,300 MERIT · +6% · +1,500 FLEET
Master Sergeant
11,300 MERIT · +8% · +3,500 FLEET
Officers
TIERS 5–9
Warrant Officer
25,300 MERIT · +10% · +6,000 FLEET
Sub-Lieutenant
51,300 MERIT · +12% · +9,000 FLEET
Sector Lieutenant
91,300 MERIT · +14% · +13,000 FLEET
Strike Captain
147,300 MERIT · +16% · +18,000 FLEET
Sector Major
222,300 MERIT · +18% · +24,000 FLEET
Senior Command
TIERS 10–14
Fleet Commander
322,300 MERIT · +20% · +31,000 FLEET
Sector Colonel
452,300 MERIT · +22% · +39,000 FLEET
Brigadier
617,300 MERIT · +24% · +48,000 FLEET
Planetary General
822,300 MERIT · +26% · +58,000 FLEET
High Marshal of the Forge
1,072,300 MERIT · +28% · +70,000 FLEET
RANKED BATTLES ONLY
Merit is paid out after Prime Mine battles, rallies, alliance objectives and Concord invasions, to every Commander who fought and qualified.
FAIR FIGHTS
Attacking a far weaker Commander earns nothing, so rank cannot be farmed from new players.
TOPPLE THE LEADER
A rally that defeats a much higher rank earns double Merit, so alliances are rewarded for uniting against a runaway.
NEVER LOST, NEVER SOLD
Rank is permanent, and no purchase, pack or perk can add Merit.
06 // CYBERNETIC CONCORD // FIELD GUIDE06 // CYBERNETIC CONCORD // FIELD GUIDE
Know your enemy
The Concord is one machine mind wearing many bodies: graphite hex plating held together by fields instead of joints, lit by the same core crystal as the fragments in the Asteroid Field. Small drones merge into bigger war-forms, and a wreck left alone starts to rebuild itself. Every type favours a range band, so the army you bring decides the fight.
IN DESIGN // NAMES, LEVELS AND SCHEDULES MAY CHANGE
SWARM · LV 1–5
Motes
Fist-sized drones that hunt in clouds. Easy prey alone, but a cloud left alive merges into a Warden.
BEST ANSWER
SHORT RANGE
DROPS
BASIC PARTS
SCOUT · LV 3–10
Seekers
Lens-eyed scouts that map your territory. Destroy one before it escapes, or it marks your city for the next invasion.
BEST ANSWER
LONG RANGE
DROPS
SENSOR PARTS
PATROL · LV 8–20
Wardens
Four-legged walkers on patrol between the hubs: the Concord patrols every Commander meets first.
BEST ANSWER
MEDIUM RANGE
DROPS
MANUFACTURING PARTS
RANGED · LV 10–25
Lancers
Beam platforms that anchor on high ground and punish slow, close-range armies.
BEST ANSWER
LONG RANGE
DROPS
FOCUSING LENSES
ARMOURED · LV 12–25
Carapaces
Shielded crawlers that soak damage for the units behind them. Break the shell first.
BEST ANSWER
SHORT RANGE
DROPS
HULL PLATING
SIEGE · LV 15–30
Breachers
Rams built to crack walls. They lead every Concord invasion and go straight for your buildings.
BEST ANSWER
MEDIUM RANGE
DROPS
DRIVE CORES
ELITE · RALLY ONLY
Hexarchs
Six-armed field commanders, too strong for one Commander. Rally your alliance: a Hexarch keeps printing Motes until it falls.
BEST ANSWER
A MIXED RALLY
DROPS
BLUEPRINTS AND MERIT
GUARDIAN · MINE LEVELS
Forge Sentinels
Guardians of the Forgeite Mines along the fault lines. Beat them level by level to win Forgeite.
BEST ANSWER
CHANGES BY LEVEL
DROPS
FORGEITE
APEX · WEEKLY
The Assembler
A walking factory the size of a city block. It builds its army as it moves, and lands once a week in every quadrant.
07 // WEEKLY THREATS // IN DESIGN07 // WEEKLY THREATS // IN DESIGN
Hold the line
Three weekly fights give every alliance a reason to log in together: one against the Concord at your door, one against its apex, and one against each other.
2–3 TIMES A WEEK
Concord Invasions
Concord cores sleeping in the Crashed Ark wrecks wake up, and waves pour out toward the nearest alliance hubs. Hold the line together: a hub that falls loses its buff for 24 hours, never for good, and everyone who fought and qualified earns Merit.
WEEKLY · EVERY QUADRANT
Assembler Descent
The Assembler lands on a fault line. Alliances rally against it in phases while it prints Hexarchs and Motes, and each alliance is rewarded for the share of damage it dealt.
WEEKLY · DECLARE, THEN FIGHT
War Windows
Alliances in the same war division can declare war during a set declaration window and fight in a fixed battle window. An alliance can face only one declaration at a time, so nobody gets dog-piled, and results pay Merit on the fair-fight scale.
Sanctaris rewards stay in the game: parts, blueprints and Merit. There are no NFTs, no USDC and no paid entry in Sanctaris events.
08
08 // ORBITAL LIFT // IN DESIGN08 // ORBITAL LIFT // IN DESIGN
One way up
Alliances can launch surplus ore from Sanctaris to the Asteroid Field above Aetheris. Convoys fight their way up the transfer orbit, and what arrives builds Field Works for the war on the Concord. Nothing comes back down: every reward for lifting is earned and kept in the game.
IN DESIGN // NAMES, LEVELS AND SCHEDULES MAY CHANGE
TRANSFER ORBIT // ILLUSTRATIONCONVOYESCORTSCONCORD INTERCEPTORS
01
Launch Rail
An alliance building rebuilt from the engines of the crashed Arks. Members load surplus ore into its cargo bay, and convoys leave in fixed launch windows.
02
Transfer orbit
Escort fleets guard each convoy up the transfer orbit. Concord interceptors strike all the way, and rival alliances may strike during war windows.
03
Lift Berth
What survives docks at one of the five Field Stations. Cargo a rival captures goes home to the rival's cities as plunder.
04
Field Works
Lifted ore is used up building shared defences and infrastructure for the war on the Concord. Each finished work changes the field from the next season.
LIFT REWARDS // KEPT IN THE GAME
MERIT
Qualifying orbital battles are ranked battles.
LOGISTICS REPUTATION
For every tonne your alliance delivers.
ALLIANCE TITLES
For the season's top lifting alliances.
09
09 // COMMANDER BADGES // EARNED, NEVER BOUGHT09 // COMMANDER BADGES // EARNED, NEVER BOUGHT
Badges that upgrade with you
Four service badges follow your Commander ID across both worlds and upgrade from grade I to V as your record grows. Badges show what you have done: nothing for sale can raise one, and they give no stat or prize advantage.
IN DESIGN // NAMES AND THRESHOLDS MAY CHANGE
Vanguard
Warfare record: battles won and Concord patrols destroyed
ILLUSTRATION
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