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THE STARS BEYOND
A free-to-play browser based persistant sandbox space MMORPG
where players can create characters from 12 possible careers.
The Sol star system is the center of the playing area which
spans a radius of 150 light years. Each player can have unlimited characters in
their account. All characters start
with a small starship suited to their career.
NAME | SKILLS | CASH | SPECIAL |
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Navy | Gunnery*, Boarding Combat, Bureacracy | 10000 | Free Gas and 50% off repairs for Military ships at Naval Base, see Help | Basic Ship Combat Strengths. Bounty paid for destroying Pirates. |
Scout | Navigation*, Pilot, Engineering | 10000 | Free Gas and 50% off repairs for Military ships at Naval Base, see Help | Basic Ship Combat Strengths. |
Courier | Beauracracy*, Pilot, Conversation | 10000 | NULL |
Steward | Steward*, Conversation, Pilot | 10000 | NULL |
Pirate | Gunnery*, Boarding Combat, Engineering | 10000 | May attempt to capture disabled ships in combat with Boarding Combat. [Engineering] Skill Bonus when Salvaging ships. |
Asteroid Miner | Engineering*, Pilot, Carousing | 10000 | 50% Bonus to [Trading] skill selling Minerals and Mine production, Ship repairs are 25% cheaper. |
Smuggler | Smuggling*, Bribery, Carousing | 10000 | NULL |
Marine | Boarding Combat*, Body Development, Bribery | 10000 | Free Gas and 50% off repairs for Military ships at Naval Base, see Help | Basic Ship Combat Strengths. May attempt to capture disabled ships in combat with Boarding Combat. |
Mercenary | Boarding Combat*, Body Development, Carousing | 10000 | Increases Strike Team Strength by [Boarding Combat] skill and Items as a percent bonus. |
Trader | Trading*, Conversation, Bribery | 10000 | NULL |
Explorer | Pilot*, Bureacracy, Engineering | 10000 | 50% Bonus to Federal Survey rewards. |
Hijacker | Break and Enter*, Bribery, Boarding Combat | 10000 | NULL |
• Skills with * gain experience the fastest for the career. Skills not listed for a career gain experience slowly. |
Characters have skills that are improved as they are used
during gameplay and each career specializes in a small set of skills. These
special skills improve at accelerated rates.
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Each character starts with a small starship.
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Here is a list of all the other starships found in the game.
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While each character created is human there are other races in the game.
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David Shaw is chubby old software engineer. He started writing The Stars Beyond in 1999 and published it in 2001 under the name of Profiteer.ca.
The game lasted online until mid 2007. It has been resurrected by Mr. Shaw to occupy his time at the end of the 2020 pandemic.
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