Manual

Navigation is down. The only working instrument is the telescope, and it's pointed at Earth.

Light takes one year to travel one light-year. So whatever you see on Earth right now left it years ago. If you are watching the Titanic sink, that light set off in 1912, and you are as many light-years away as years have passed since.

1. Read the transmission.
2. Set a distance with the throttle, or type it.
3. The computer answers ⬆️ further or ⬇️ closer. The range scanner narrows the target zone.
4. Systems boot after jumps 2, 4 and 6: century, decade, and something else happening at the time.

You have 7 jumps. Within ±5% (or ±2 light-years, whichever is larger) counts as a lock. One event a day, the same for every ship.

1 jump

🌟 Perfect navigation

2–3

Position locked

4–7

Emergency landing

Miss

Lost in space

Distances count from the current year. There was no year 0, so 44 BC to 2026 is 2,069 years.