In development Release: TBA

The Ledger Syndicate

Every favor is a debt.

Strategy · Space Sandbox · RPG

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The game

The Ledger Syndicate is a character-driven space sandbox: a game of strategy and intrigue where the drama isn’t scripted, it grows out of people, and carries across generations.

You are the mortal captain of a Wandering House: a dynasty with no land, no army, no throne. Just a ship, a crew of eight, and a name worth protecting. Around you stretches the Aether, five thousand star systems settled by the humans who abandoned Earth rather than bow to a single center of power. Eight great Hegemonies hold it in a cold peace, and that peace is starting to crack.

01 — The galaxy

A galaxy built fresh, every time

Every playthrough generates a galaxy of roughly five thousand star systems, stars, planets, stations and the people who run them. Most will never be touched by anyone. The worlds you map, trade with and remember are yours; let them fall out of date and the galaxy moves on without you.

The Ledger Syndicate galaxy map

02 — The powers

Eight Hegemonies, one fracturing peace

Eight great powers hold the Aether in a cold peace, each built on one of the five Cultures, each ruled by a House with its own grudges. One of them is quietly growing. Select a Hegemony.

03 — The peoples

Five Cultures, one question

The Aether never agreed on how to live without a center. It split into five answers, five Cultures, diffuse and mixed across every Hegemony, in permanent friction. Together they hold 25 Subcultures and dozens of Traditions.

Material development

Ferrum

“What we forge, remains.”

The forge-cultures. Ferrum answers the question of how to live without a center with a single word: build. Power lies in what you make and what you make is meant to outlast you.

Subcultures
Iron-BoundCode-BoundArchitectsWorkers' CouncilFoundries Eternal
Traditions
Forge MasteryMegastructure BuildersIron BrotherhoodResource DoctrineTempered Hulls

Factsheet

Developer
Dinca Games
Status
In development
Release
TBA
Genres
Strategy, Space Sandbox, RPG

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