Kessler Orbit

Every scale you hold becomes a single point on the next. Kessler Orbit starts where every defence game starts: one planet, and things falling toward it. Then it zooms out. Hold Earth's orbit and it collapses into a point on the map of the Moon. Hold that, and it becomes a coordinate on its way around the Sun. Five scales, one set of rules. FIVE SCALES Orbit - Earth and its three shells: LEO, MEO, GEO. Cislunar - the Moon and its Lagrange points, turning together. Inner system - Venus, Mars and the asteroid belt. New stations fly on transfer orbits. Solar system - Jupiter and Saturn bend every path that comes close. Neighbourhood - the nearest stars. Every order you give travels at the speed of light. SIX STATIONS, SIX DIALS EACH Lasers burn through one target at a time. Railguns kill big rocks - and shatter them into swarms, the Kessler cascade. Nets catch the swarms. Flak bursts over…