Player & technical guide

Galaxies runs in your browser. You sign in, you're handed a pilot account and a starter fighter, and you're flying — no download, no wallet, no crypto knowledge required.

Your account is custodial: the game holds the keys and sponsors every transaction, so the blockchain runs invisibly underneath while you play. Everything you earn is still genuinely yours, and provably so.

Fighters use a fast, arcade-real flight model — throttle, boost, and a light targeting system. It's built to feel good in the first thirty seconds and reward mastery over the next hundred hours.

Out in the systems you'll dogfight Ashfar raiders, escort haulers, run patrols for the factions, and pick over the salvage of ships that didn't make it. Wins pay in Lumen and loot.

The Karrun Belt and other fields are full of raw minerals. Mine them, haul them back, and run them through a refinery — yours or a settlement's — to turn rock into materials, fuel, and Lumen.

Refining is the engine of the economy: nearly everything built or traded in Galaxies traces back to a belt somewhere.

Plant a stake on a world and it mints a real parcel deed — a quarter-acre of the galaxy that's yours. Stakes come in Bronze, Silver, and Gold, each claiming more ground.

A claim is just the beginning: build it into a settlement with refineries, docks, and defenses, hold it against raiders, and expand your footprint across the frontier. Deeds are tradeable, so a good claim is real, sellable property.

Every pilot starts in a Kestrel — a light, agile fighter that's forgiving to learn and quick to escape trouble. From there the fleet opens up.

The Drayhorse is a slow, armored hauler that moves cargo across the lanes. The Corvid is an industrial miner built for the belts. The Warden is a heavy gunship for holding settlements and faction warfare. Ships are assets you own — earn them, upgrade them, and trade them.

Lumen (◇) is the frontier's currency — refined energy credits you earn by mining, missions, and trade, and spend on ships, upgrades, fuel, and land.

Galaxies runs on a test network. Lumen and in-game assets have no monetary value and are not investments or financial products — they exist to be earned and spent inside the game.

Galaxies is built on Robinhood Chain (currently testnet). Land deeds, items, settlement records, and Lumen balances are settled on-chain so ownership is portable, provable, and tradeable.

It's fully custodial and gasless. The game manages accounts and sponsors transactions on the player's behalf — you never sign anything, pay a fee, or see a transaction. The chain is the game's permanent memory, not a paywall.

Galaxies is an independent game by thesecretlab. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Do I need a wallet? No — accounts are custodial and gasless. Can I buy the token, or is it an investment? No — Lumen is a testnet in-game currency with no monetary value; it is not for sale and is not a financial product. Is this Robinhood? No — it's an independent game by thesecretlab, built on Robinhood Chain (testnet), not affiliated with Robinhood. What does it cost? Nothing — it's free to play on testnet, in your browser.