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The site is a Next.js App Router project on React 19 and Tailwind v4. There is no database, no API route, no environment variable and no external service: every figure the site renders is computed in process from the files under src/lib. A clone runs offline.

The system is a three-layer stack. The lib layer holds the domain: types, constants, the engine, the researched facts, the copy and the formatting. The component layer renders what lib hands it. The route layer composes components into a page and adds nothing of its own beyond metadata and layout.

The engine runs in expected-value mode. There is no randomness anywhere in it, so the same fleet always prints the same docket, and every figure below is an average across many launches rather than the outcome of any single one. A commander does not experience an average.

supplyIndex = clamp(float ÷ 350,000,000, 0.05, 1.00)

fuel = fuelBase × (1 + volatility × surchargeCoeff) × captainFuel × supplyIndex

burned = fuel × 0.70 · dividendPool = fuel × 0.20 · treasury = fuel − burned − dividendPool

pFail = min(0.49, max(volatility × 0.38 × defenseFactor × afterHoursRisk, afterHoursFloor))

survival = 1 − (1 − 0.20) × pFail

bonus = 1 + rewardBonus × greenFrequency + 0.20 × auraCoverage

rewardUnits = sessionLaunches × survivalSession × boostFactor + afterHoursLaunches × survivalRaid
fragmentsUsd = fragmentBaseUsd × fragmentMod × yieldMultiplier × bonus × rewardUnits
longTokens = longBase × cruiserGap × yieldMultiplier × bonus × rewardUnits

cycle = flightHours + refitHours
sessionOnly: floor((136.5 ÷ cycle) × sessionFactor)
allHours:    floor((24 ÷ cycle) × uptime × 30)

engineParts = enginePartChance × (sessionLaunches × (1 − pFailSession) + afterHoursLaunches × 3 × (1 − pFailRaid))
plasmaCannons = engineParts × 0.50
crafted = floor(min(engineParts ÷ 8, plasmaCannons ÷ 4))
granted = min(floor(flagshipLaunches ÷ 8), flagships × 2)
tickets = min(crafted + granted, 12)

fuelUsd = fuelDonut × $0.0025
returnUsd = fragmentsUsd + longTokens × $0.008 + dividendClaim × $0.0025
recapture = returnUsd ÷ fuelUsd

The two examples below are not written out by hand. They are produced by calling the same functions the simulator calls, with the fleet and settings named in each column heading, so the figures on this page cannot drift away from the engine that generated them.

Constants are the only place a tunable figure is allowed to live. Nothing in the engine, the components or the copy may carry a number of its own; when a value below changes, every surface that quotes it changes with it — including this table, which is generated from the imports rather than transcribed.

Three hulls are specified and they are deliberately not balanced against each other in isolation. The Harvester is the floor, the Cruiser converts disorder into $LONG, and the Dreadnought is on purpose the worst raw earner in the game — it repays its fuel bill only by lifting the hulls around it. Mixed fleets beat monocultures in the model because launch cost scales with tank size while the aura bonus is a flat percentage applied to whatever sits beneath it.

A captain sits above the hull and changes how the whole line behaves: fuel draw, pirate exposure, sustained launch rate and reward. Two of the three are defensive or logistical rather than multiplicative, which is intentional — a roster where every captain raised yield would collapse into one dominant pick.

Four sectors carry the whole map, each mirroring a real equity's behaviour without using its branding, logo or colours. Two numbers define a region — a yield multiplier applied to everything harvested there, and a volatility value between 0 and 1 that drives the fuel surcharge, the pirate risk and the dispersion at once. Sectors are identified on every surface by hatch pattern and plate code, so they survive greyscale, dark mode and an 8px legend swatch.

Expeditions are designed to resolve against the real US regular session: 09:30–16:00 ET, 21 sessions in a modelled month, 6.5 hours a session and 136.5 session hours in a 30-day month. Weekends are closed. The clock is computed in the market's own zone rather than a viewer's, so the session opens and closes at the same wall-clock time for everyone reading this, wherever they are.

sessionStateAt takes a Date and returns the state of the session at that instant. It formats the instant into the session's zone with Intl.DateTimeFormat, reads hour, minute, second and weekday from the formatted parts, and reduces the clock to minutes past local midnight. That single number is then compared against the open and close constants. Nothing about the viewer's own clock or locale enters the calculation, and daylight saving is handled by the zone database rather than by an offset anyone has to maintain.

The weekend is the exploit. The after-hours rules are not flavour: they imitate a documented failure in the market this design borrows from.

The game already charged a risk premium for flying after the bell. It turns out the premium is not invented: pirate failure rising 1.35× outside the session, with a floor that no captain can talk their way under, is the closest honest analogue of a market where the corrective mechanism has gone home for the weekend.

Fuel is spent, not parked. Launching debits $DONUT up front and the debit is never refunded, whatever the expedition returns. That payment splits on a fixed schedule — 70% burned, 20% to the dividend pool, 10% to the treasury — and the schedule does not vary by hull, captain, sector, flight window or scenario. It is the project's headline rule and the one number a reader should be able to recite.

The burn is what closes the loop. Fuel destroyed leaves the circulating float, which lowers the supply index in F1, which lowers the fuel cost of the next launch in F2. A commander who flies is simultaneously the largest cost centre in the game and its deflation mechanism. The projection on the burn page runs that loop forward twelve months with the float decrementing as it goes, which is why the monthly burn falls even when the fleet does not change — and the float is floored at 5% of its initial value so the model cannot run itself to zero.

A completed expedition pays in three currencies and two objects. Stock fragments are the dividend-shaped component and are denominated in USD. $LONG is the launchpad token, earned by every hull except the Harvester. Engine Parts and Plasma Cannons are rare salvage. Fragments and $LONG are the reason to fly at all; parts are the reason to fly at three in the morning.

The intended endpoint for salvage is a launchpad ticket. Under the planned long.xyz integration a ticket is designed to grant front-of-line access to IDOs of new tokenized stocks and stock-paired tokens, and the Dreadnought is specified to carry a guaranteed grant on top of anything crafted. That is the mechanic as designed.

The identity above was not taken on trust. On 2026-09-07 the public RPC was queried directly and the responses below are what came back. They are the reason the chain rows in the next table read as verified rather than reported.

One of those rows is load-bearing for the whole design. The mint and redeem window for a tokenized equity runs on weekdays through authorised participants, so the supply of the wrapper cannot change while the underlying market is shut. That is the mechanism chapter 07 imitates, and it is verified rather than assumed.

Quoting a pool in an equity rather than a stablecoin is the whole point of launching on a chain where tokenized stocks are the native unit of account. It is also a decision with consequences that arrive whether or not anything happens to the token itself: a pool quote is not a neutral unit. Whatever the quote asset does, the pair does in the opposite direction.

Two practical cautions belong beside the recommendation. Headline liquidity figures quoted by aggregators value both legs of a pool, including the new token at a mark derived from that same pool, so they overstate tradeable depth substantially — depth on the quote side is the number that matters here. And the weekend gap described in chapter 07 applies to the quote leg exactly as it applies to any other tokenized equity: between the Friday close and the Monday open there is no correcting force, and depth is the only defence available.

The regulatory line this design sits on is binary rather than a spectrum, and it decides what every surface of the site is allowed to say. It is written down here so that nobody has to reconstruct it from the copy.

The visual system is printed matter rather than screen glow: a warm unbleached tape ground, hairline ledger rules, an engraved display serif and a teleprinter mono. Depth comes from rules and a deliberate two-colour misregistration, never from shadow, blur or gradient. Nothing is centred, corners are square everywhere except the button, and no figure is ever set in a proportional face.

Terms are defined here once and used consistently everywhere else. Where a definition carries a figure, the figure is imported rather than restated, so a term cannot come to mean something the engine disagrees with.

A reference document is only useful if it is as clear about its holes as about its contents. Everything below is open. None of it is presented as a risk that has been managed, and none of it is a rhetorical caveat: each item would change something concrete if it were resolved one way rather than another.