ASTRA 0.1.1-alpha

ASTRA 0.1.1-alpha refines the first public alpha while preserving its combat balance and model/provider choices.

• K opens the complete, scrollable controls card on Mac; the pause menu also has Controls. Hold Q for the equipment wheel, with real rifle/sidearm ownership, the datapad and empty hands.
• Flight Control handles routine work autonomously within the Captain’s intent; the helm keeps its proposal-based delegation. Saved explicit choices remain respected.
• Stable agent instructions are cacheable while current facts remain complete. Professional memories retain the original source wording, including negations and exceptions. The rolling history stays bounded; no automatic LLM compaction was added.
• The wall through the Kestrel bay is fixed. Boarding events drive visible loading and departure before the existing cabin and boarding flow. Laser pulses are shorter and lighter; damage and battle tuning are unchanged.
• Expanded 4K in-game gallery and actual 60 fps cinematic footage: https://astra.noesisai.it.

The Apple Silicon macOS app is a Shipping build, signed with Developer ID, notarized by Apple, and carries a validated stapled ticket. Gatekeeper verification passed. The game asks for your own OpenRouter key with credit on first launch; no developer keys are included.

Validation: 457 offline mind regression tests, real-model delegation and memory checks, an actual crew session, a complete Captain-and-marines boarding round trip, and C++/portability checks. This remains an alpha.

Windows packaging and build instructions are available in the repository. A prebuilt Windows executable has not been produced or tested on Windows.

ASTRA 0.1.0-alpha

The first public build of ASTRA: a first-person space war in which every person you meet has a mind of their own.

You command the ASN Aquila at the Janus Gate. Talk to your officers in your own language and they answer, act and report; allied
captains fight beside you with their own judgment; Mandate commanders call you on an open channel; a high command moves real fleets on a
real map. Leave the chair to walk the ship's decks, or take a Falcon off the flight deck yourself.

In this alpha

• A campaign at the Janus Gate of the Aurelia March, with the war of the whole March around it, the loss of the ship and a new command after it, and a narrated end to each chapter.
• A spoken, subtitled introduction (Space skips a shot, Esc skips it all; INTRODUCTION in the menu plays it again).
• Voices and speech recognition on your own machine in seven languages (English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch).
• SETTINGS for graphics, display, sound, the crew's language, mouse and keys, and your OpenRouter key.

Install (macOS, Apple Silicon)

1. Download ASTRA-0.1.0-alpha-macOS-AppleSilicon.zip, unzip it and move ASTRA to Applications.
2. Open it. The app is signed with the developer's Apple Developer ID; Apple's notarization of this first build is pending, so macOS may say
   it cannot verify the app: open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and choose Open Anyway (once). A notarized build will replace this one.
3. Paste your OpenRouter API key when it asks (https://openrouter.ai/keys, a little credit is enough to start): the game checks it and its credit.
4. The first start downloads the crew's voices and hearing (about 3 GB, once). A microphone is optional: T types an order.

Requires macOS 14 or later on an M-series Mac; 16 GB of memory recommended.

Windows

Windows is the main platform for players, but a Windows build has to be made on a Windows PC (Unreal Engine cannot build Windows from a
Mac). With Unreal Engine 5.8.3 and Visual Studio 2022: tools\windows\Pacchetto-Windows.ps1 -Config Shipping -Zip. A Windows download
will come with the next release.

Checksum

ASTRA-0.1.0-alpha-macOS-AppleSilicon.zip.sha256 holds the SHA-256 of the zip.

Known issues

• The crew are still Unreal's mannequins.
• In the heaviest battles the resolution drops to hold the frame rate on a MacBook Air.
• Now and then two officers ask the Captain the same question, or the fleet's news runs ahead of the map.

Built by Mattia Beltrami. Code and ASTRA's own assets under the MIT licence; third-party work keeps its own licence (CREDITS.md).