Mars Mining Operations Starts with a better laser, plus damage and mining boosters. GAMMARAYALPHA
For everyone who misses the classic space game from the browser.
Fly, fight and mine in your browser.
Start the training sector right now, no sign-up needed. When you finish it, you keep your pilot with everything you earned.
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- Server online
- Free to play
- No download
- Desktop, tablet and phone
- 21 languages
Founder reward
The first 100 pilots fly gold
Sign up as one of the first 100 pilots and you get the Golden Goliath skin for free: a Goliath design with its claws cast in polished gold.
Places are still free.
The idea
What if the game had taken a different path?
Horizontal progression: new roles, ships and things to do. Gameplay progress comes from playing. Optional cosmetics and voluntary support help keep the server running.
No pay-to-winNo paid power or shortcuts. Gameplay items are earned in play; optional original cosmetics support the server.
No passes, no FOMONo battle passes, login streaks or limited shops. Events come back.
Upgrades without gamblingUpgrades are expensive but certain. Boxes have published reward tables.
Browser client
Play in any browser, on PC or phone
No Flash and no launcher. We rebuilt the original 3D client for modern browsers. Log in on your PC or on your phone, it's the same pilot.
- Touch controls on phones and tablets
- If your connection drops, your ship stays in space while the client reconnects
Client technology
Unlimited FPS, new effects, reworked visuals
We didn't stop at a copy of the old client. The frame rate has no cap, ships wear HD textures, and reworked lighting, bloom and particles make flying and fighting feel much smoother.
- No FPS cap, or set your own limit
- New effects for shield hits, gate jumps, engine trails and drones that lean into turns
- HD ship textures and HD backgrounds
- A Performance preset for older PCs, and the Original look for anyone who wants it exactly as it was
Living universe
You are never alone
Even when the server is quiet, clearly marked ships of your company fly the maps. They are not just scenery: each one follows its own goals and routines. They hunt aliens, mine, haul ore home and run for a safe zone when a fight goes wrong. Guards sit at the stations, patrols check the gates, and now and then a rival company sends raiders into your maps.
- You can hire them as escorts or take them along in your group
- How they treat you depends on your reputation with their company
- Their miners and trade drones carry real cargo and drop most of it when shot down
- Attack a company ship and it calls for help. Reinforcements come through the gates
Companies
Factions that matter
Your company decides where you're safe and who comes after you. Each of the three keeps its own reputation score for you, so you can be welcome with one and hunted by another.
Mars Mining Operations Starts with a better laser, plus damage and mining boosters. 
Earth Industries Corporation Starts with a better shield, plus shield and honor boosters. 
Venus Resources Unlimited Starts with a repair bot, plus experience and resource boosters. - Reputation from Hated to Esteemed, with each company separately
- Good standing gets you discounts and your company's own Goliath
- Military ranks are back, ranked within your company
- Clans only take pilots of one company, so no single clan can run the whole server
Ships
Each hull has its own role
Smuggling, express cargo, healing, scouting, defending your home maps: cheaper ships stay useful. Every hull also keeps its own prestige, name and service record.
Hangar
Ships that are really yours
Buy hangar bays, park your ships in them and give each one a name. Every ship keeps a record of everything it has been through and earns prestige the longer you fly it. Prestige unlocks glowing outlines and designs of its own.
- Each hull keeps its own equipment, design and name
- Many kills of one alien species make the ship stronger against those aliens, and prestige earns rewards
- Every ship looks better than in the original and takes center stage, for example in menus
Unique Ships
Some ships are truly unique
Out there are ships with abilities or equipment no other ship has. Only one pilot can own each of them, and if it is shot down, it is gone for good.
- You have to find them first
- Each one exists only once on the server, and only active pilots can own it
- You can sell it to another pilot or hand it over
Progression
Slow at first, then it picks up
The start is slow on purpose. You get to know your ship, and every upgrade feels like something. Later you earn enough to kit yourself out completely, and much sooner than on other servers. And if you would rather stay with a ship you like, nobody rushes you.
Equipment
New powerful weapons
Next to the original equipment you'll find new lasers, shields, launchers, mines and extras, up to the Hellstorm Launcher 4.
- LF-4 variants made for fighting pilots or aliens
- Scatter Lasers with Overdrive and Spectral Lancers
- New shields
- New mines and new Hellstorm launchers
- New extras
Fracture mining
Mining is a skill game
Bigger rocks have to be cracked. You hold the laser's power in the green band. Push too hard and the rock blows up, taking most of the ore and a chunk of your hull with it. A clean break pays best.
- Now and then you come across an asteroid of pure Uridium, and everyone who helps mine it gets a share
- Storage bays at your home base, and a refinery that keeps running while you're offline
Exploration
Something is always happening out there
Inside the maps and beyond their edges, there is always something going on. Out there, you have to stay alert.
- Bonus Box StormSuddenly a map is full of bonus boxes.
- Alien SurgeOne kind of alien comes back twice as fast.
- Golden LordakiaCatch it before it gets away.
- Pirate HuntMore pay for one kind of pirate, with a ranking.
- Gate DefenseThree waves of enemies attack a gate.
- Boss RotationEvery hour, a boss shows up somewhere else.
- Pure UridiumA rock of pure Uridium. Mine it together.
- Rare variantsAliens you know, with abilities you have never seen.
- Company pilots in troubleHelp them out, and they may fly with you.
- RaidA rival company sends raiders.
- Drifting wrecksAn old hull, waiting to be stripped.
Salvaging
Strip wrecks for parts
Destroyed ships sometimes leave a wreck behind. Scan it, strip the plating, cut it along the seams and vacuum up the pieces. Scrap and electronics sell for Credits or become components for equipment upgrades.
- Wrecks come from aliens, from players and from old hulls drifting on the maps
Freight
Contracts, freight drones and smuggling
Service docks post fresh contracts all the time. Longer and riskier routes pay more. You can also send freight drones through the portals, but they fly in the open and other pilots can shoot them down.
Classic content
Classic content, restored
- The pirate sector. From 4-5 it's one way through 5-1, 5-2 and 5-3, past pirate fleets and the Palladium nebula
- All eleven alien families and their bosses, plus Uber aliens, Cubikons and the Deadly Battleray
- Galaxy Gates, the UBA arena, Spaceball, Invasion, Team Deathmatch and many, many seasonal events
- Original ships, maps, enemies and prices
Why Gammaray
What's different here
If you've played DarkOrbit on another server, this is what you'll notice first.
Client
Runs in any current browser, on phones and tablets too
Often elsewhereFlash launcher or a download
Maps
AI pilots mine, guard and raid around the clock, so the maps don't go quiet at night
Often elsewhereEmpty outside peak hours
Ships
Every hull has its own job, and older ships stay worth flying
Often elsewhereThe newest hull beats everything
Side activities
Crack asteroids, salvage wrecks for parts or explore the radiation zone, and each of them pays
Often elsewhereFly over ore and wait
Upgrades
They never fail, and a fully upgraded laser becomes the next model with materials
Often elsewhereRandom, with losses
Credits
Always something to spend them on: hangar bays, hired wingmen, clan services and upgrades
Often elsewhereThey pile up once your ship is bought
Auction house
Lots open at their shop value, so Credits buy real Uridium gear
Often elsewhereLots go for almost nothing
Shop
Ships and power earned in play; optional cosmetics support the server
Often elsewhereCash shop, premium and paid boxes
Clans
A clan bank, ranks with rights, bounties, boosters and Battle Stations the clan owns together
Often elsewhereA tag and a shared chat
Content
Pirate sector, Cubikons, Uber aliens, gates and events
Often elsewhereA few maps and gates
What's next
Why Alpha?
The game is playable today. The alpha is for balancing and tuning its systems, so shop prices or quest rewards can still change while you play.
Your progress stays: no reset is planned for the release.
This is what we're working on:
- All original and modern ships, each with a place of its own in the game
- New ship skins, 3D models and more, for example weapons
- Better performance
- More detail in the game world
- Fixing a whole lot of bugs
Live status
Online and in active development
Server online
100 %
Availability in the last 30 days
Checked every minute since Oct 14.
DevelopmentLast update: 2 days ago
142
Updates since the alpha started
New since the alpha started
- Equipment can now be upgraded up to level 16.
- Unique Ships: each one exists only once and keeps a chronicle of its life.
- An auction house with hourly, daily, weekly and monthly lots.
- Salvaging: strip wrecks for parts.
- Fly without a company, starting in the factionless paradise 13-1.
- Company pilots can join your group.
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