In memory of Sir Patrick Stewart  ·  1940 – 2026

IKAREE

Season 1 · Story episodes

Season 1: six story episodes at real stars

Every episode plays like an episode of a TV series. It starts on routine duty, then something happens and you decide whether to answer, and how. Each one has several endings, and your crew remembers what you chose.

  1. A drifting wreck in front of a star on the IKAREE's main viewscreen. Episode 01 · HIP 95031EchoA 300-year-old distress call from a ship that never existed.
  2. A survey probe's camera view descending toward a planet's surface. Episode 02 · HD 95338Voice on the RadioPrimitive radio from an uncharted world: one young voice asking whether anyone is out there.
  3. Ancient wrecked warships drifting in front of a blue-white dwarf star, seen from the IKAREE's bridge. Episode 03 · HIP 23692GraveyardThe wrecks of an ancient battle drift around a dead white dwarf.
  4. The tactical map on the IKAREE's main screen with contacts and ranges. Episode 04 · HD 108236The CureA crippled freighter, a cargo of plague cure, and two worlds that both claim it.
  5. A vast luminous space creature in the plasma of an orange giant star, seen from the bridge. Episode 05 · EltaninHatchlingAt the orange giant Eltanin a vast creature dies, and something hatches.
  6. The IKAREE's bridge under red alert lighting. Episode 06 · BrachiumThe DefectorA scout flees across the Vaharan border with a warship on its tail and a secret to sell.

How an episode works

  1. Routine duty. The ship is on station and your crew is at work. Fly anywhere, scan anything.
  2. Something happens. A signal, a wreck, a ship on the run. You can decline, and that has consequences too.
  3. You decide. Your officers argue their side. There is no right answer marked on a menu, only what you say.

Episodes last 25 to 35 minutes. More arrive with Early Access updates: about 100 missions are planned, across the whole galaxy.

Alien encounters through an imperfect translator

Out there you meet the species of the Planetary Union and the powers beyond it. You speak; the translator does its best. Not everything comes across.

Write your own

Every episode is a single data file in an open format. See how a mission is made, and how your own story and ship will live on in the galaxy.

Early Access

Take the chair.

Early Access on the Meta Horizon Store. The public store page opens soon.

  • Meta Quest 3 / 3S, standalone
  • PC VR on Windows: Air Link, Link or OpenXR
  • Seated, voice-driven, internet and microphone required
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