Like Elite Dangerous? What COLONIZED offers you

If what draws you to space is a system that obeys physics, the scale of real worlds and a place among factions that remember what you do, COLONIZED starts from the same instinct: its universe is one solar system, Aurin, built to be measured. It is a space survival MMORPG for PC in Unreal Engine 5, in development, with applications open for a closed alpha whose first wave is planned for winter 2026-2027.

Each point below says whether it is done (in the main build), in development (code that is not finished or not merged) or designed (on paper).

What you are looking for, and what COLONIZED has

What you want	What COLONIZED has	Status
A system that obeys physics	Real radii and Keplerian orbits with a fixed epoch for every body	Done
Scale	Planets of 6,000 to 6,400 km in radius; distances compressed to 15 million km per lore astronomical unit	Done
Seamless worlds	Spherical planets with radial gravity, walkable from the ground to the edge of space	Done
A sky that makes sense	Day and night, eclipses and volumetric clouds, seen from the ground and from orbit	Done
Ships	Seven ships modelled inside and out at real scale	Models done; flight in development
Factions	The Zenith or the Nadir, chosen once and for good	Done
Reputation that matters	Five neutral guilds, five ranks each, with cross effects between them	Done
A persistent galaxy of players	One persistent universe on dedicated servers	Done
Trading and an economy	The Solmera Credits exist in the lore; trading is designed	Designed

A system you can put numbers on

Aurin is a G1V star of about 130,000 km in radius. Ormek orbits at 6 million km and takes 50.6 days; Ithera, at 15 million, takes 200; Kaldrek, at 28.5 million, takes 524. The two faction stations sit at Ithera’s L4 and L5 points, sixty degrees ahead and behind. Light from Aurin takes about 50 seconds to reach Ithera’s orbit, and a message between those stations needs around a minute and a half. The moons are the one place where the system refuses to behave: they orbit in hours where their measured masses would ask for days, and the settlers navigate with an empirical clock, the Phase Table, rather than with Kepler. Everything is in the guide to the Aurin system.

How it fits inside an engine

COLONIZED runs on Unreal Engine 5.8, whose double-precision Large World Coordinates make room for the system with compressed distances. Each body’s sphere of influence is its server zone and its jump destination; inside it, the body stays still and the sun turns. We explain the trade-offs, and why a real solar system does not fit even in double precision, in how to simulate a solar system at scale.

Two factions and five guilds

Forty-six years ago one colony fleet split into two. When you enlist aboard the Arca Custodia you choose the Zenith or the Nadir, and in the current build that choice is permanent. Five neutral guilds, born from the survivors of a shipwreck, measure your trust from Paria to Leyenda, and working for one can cost you with another. The canon is in the Zenith and the Nadir and the five Global Guilds.

What COLONIZED does not have yet

• Ship flight, landing, jumps and space combat in the main build: in development, tested on a test ship.
• A flight model we can describe: we will not detail it until it is playable.
• Trading, an economy and faction warfare: designed, not built.
• A release date, price or system requirements: none announced.

How to get in

Apply for the closed alpha: it is free, keys go out in waves, and each friend who completes an application moves you ten places up the list. Join our Discord, and see everything verified about the game on COLONIZED in facts.