Galaxy

The Galaxy station is the map: systems, each holding planets, each planet a lattice of hexes. The layers and how to read each one — galaxy, solar system, planet, moon — have a page of their own. Colonies and their owners' names are public to everyone — what a colony holds is private, and only an espionage mission answers it. Bot colonies are marked by tier, from easy prey to the BOSS nests seated at a planet's poles; unlike you, a bot colony can be worn down and destroyed, and destroying one pays its killers Dark Matter — the currency the Merchant trades against — split by the damage each dealt.

Debris fields left by battle sit at their site until a Scavenger collects them. Moons ride some planets as small worlds of their own, with their own ground and their own works — a row wearing the moon chip has one, and the chip flips the row to the moon's own name and address.