United Galactic Federation · Vessel registry open
Starward is the persistent living-starship RPG. Enlist below decks, earn your commission, and take your post aboard a UGF vessel that remembers every choice.
Keep the ship breathing, mended, and supplied.
Take the helm, read the unknown, make the call.
Turn academy training into a life among the stars.
Mission architecture
The ship is the campaign. Its crew works, rests, worries, celebrates, and reacts while players make their way through the UGF.
01 · A living complement
Three eight-hour watches keep 300 crew moving through the ship. NPCs carry routines, grudges, goals, and the memory of what your crew has changed.
100 crew on duty per watch · 200 marines below decks
02 · The frontier responds
Build planets, life forms, anomalies, and encounters at the pace of play. The mission toolkit turns every new signal into a place your crew can investigate.
Procedural worlds · anomalies · first-contact encounters
03 · Mission director
Your AI mission director tracks open threads, surfaces complications, and helps a game master keep a persistent UGF campaign moving between sessions.
Campaign memory · evolving consequences · ready prompts
Built for the long voyage
From repair shifts to diplomatic crises, your vessel accumulates history. Starward gives the crew, the setting, and the mission director room to carry it forward.
Complete core rules
Characters, ship tasks, combat, advancement, and more.
A shipwide point of view
Every mission lands somewhere in the crew's shared story.
All hands
Find your station. Bring your crew. Make the kind of future a living ship remembers.
Begin your watch