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Welcome to Star Sonata, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, where you captain a spaceship in a vast, hostile, and fascinating universe. Space Trading Game. Discover profitable trade routes. Create "slave" ships to fight at your side or to run trade routes. Build bases to mine moons or planets, build items from blueprints, create and control colonies on suitable planets. Create a team and vie with other teams for universal dominance. Deploy drones either in the heat of combat or to protect your galaxies or trade routes. The ultimate prize: be crowned emperor and rule the universe! Free Download, Unlimited Free Play The whole universe is open for free to players for an unlimited length of time, however, eventually you will hit level 20, past which a subscription is required to continue gaining levels. Please make your way to the Tutorial section and learn how to safely operate your new vessel or read more about the game in the About section.
Test Emperor Run   March 15th, 2008 The test Emperor run will be in 30 minutes from this post on the test server. I'm just starting up a copy of the current uni on test. At noon pacific time, I will take that down and start up a new universe. So you have a little bit of time to pack if you want. Anyone who can become crowned emperor will get 12 Imperial Seals on the real More.... Next Universe Reset March 22   March 7th, 2008 Saturday, March 22 at noon Pacific time the universe will be reset. All f your ships will appear at the first AI base that you dock at in the new universe, but deployed bases and drones will disappear. It is suggested that you also dock and deactivate all slaves, as they sometimes get lost between universes. Saturday March 15 at noon Pacific will be a test universe reset on the Test server. I will copy the DB over maybe an hour or so before that. Any team that can take and hold emperor on test during the week before More.... Jzoe is back   January 28th, 2008 Jzoe is now officially coming back to help with support and player relations. Both Voom and Jzoe will be in this role now and I would like to thank both of them for their efforts. But please, no treating them like your parents where if one says no you go ask the other. More....
Emperor Crowned Emperor     Bizman of  pantalones Palace     Anatolia The Emperor has taken the throne. Kneel before him!   Help! What does this mean?
1.   Bizman     pantalones 2.   Hermes     pantalones 3.   space gnome     pantalones 4.   swingarm     pantalones 5.   Jumpen Jack     Death Mental 6.   Slicer     pantalones 7.   Lord Nibbler2     Death Mental 8.   Lich    Void 9.   Fry     Traders 10.   TehGeneral     Traders   1.     pantalones    1008 2.     JAWSS    790 3.     Traders    659 4.     The Forgotten Colonies    577 5.     Light Commerce    521 6.     E.P.I.C.    489 7.     Death Mental    456 8.     Sheilds    403 9.     Infinity    334 10.     Zephyr    321
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Server Patch 5-10-08   May 10th, 2008 * Fixed the bug where you couldn't toss over unequipped Engines, etc. * Made Tractors hot-switchable again * Forgones gain slightly more resists against mining and less resists to surgical (mining and surgical are both the best damage type against them now) * Icepicks gain more resists to mining and less resists to heat (mining and heat are the second best against them now after radiation which was always the best.) (Look for Forgones and Icepicks to pick up more resistance to mining in another month or two as we add other things that have vulnerabilities More.... Server and Client Patch 5-8-08   May 8th, 2008 * Fixed a server crash that was happening sometimes when a player logged in who hadn't logged in yet this universe * Fixed a client crash on logging in or relogging * Fixed the vaporizing items when you tried to toss things that you can't unequip * Fixed the bug that caused constructions to vanish on a server crash * Added new code for calculating firing points for different ships * Added 3 new skills, Zen of Acceleration, Zen of the Spin, and Zen of Far Reaching * Changed the firing sound * More.... Server and Client Patch 5-6-08   May 6th, 2008 * All items are now stackable * User bases and drones can now get tweaks * Added the notion of hostile or friendly targets and different colored targeting rings and different sounds when you select different targets * Added target selection sounds * Added engine sound * Replaced some of the ambient music sounds * Added different sound for when you shoot something and don't do any damage * Drones no longer cause slaves who are on "attack my target" to re-target whatever the drone shoots. * Enhancement to energy capacitors More.... Server and Client Patch 4-12-2008   April 12th, 2008 * Fixed the crash bug with taking over the palace * Improvement to the save algorithm to reduce lag and allow more frequent saves * Server-side memory optimizations * Change to the DB writing thread to reduce game lag * New T15 and T20 Battle Thatches * Fixed some energy descriptions * Weapons will no longer track if you can't see your target * Warp devices will start the cooldown for all related items so you can't sidestep the cooldown by having more than one * Added size cap to friends list More.... Server Patch 3/31   March 31st, 2008 - Added a ~5 minute delay to getting kicked out of a dungeon, so that if the server crashes or you get disconnected in the middle of a dungeon run, you can still get back. Note: If you are locked out of the galaxy, you will get kicked anyways. - Prevented war on nobody. - Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause Infernos to crash the More....

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