Orbital Strike

Command the orbital plane. Near-future Earth. Opponents race for orbital superiority, and the battlefield is a dark shell of empty space where nothing is visible until someone looks at it. Orbital Strike is a real-time strategy game where satellites are weapons. Build them from modular parts, launch them into the orbits you choose, and command them through a war fought at eight kilometers per second. THE SKY IS DARK Satellites are invisible by default. Yours, theirs, everyone's. An asset only appears when an active sensor illuminates it — radar, infrared, or optical — and each of those can be jammed independently. Overlapping sensor coverage is how you see. Coordinated jamming is how you disappear. Break every sensor covering a satellite and it drops off the map entirely. BUILD. LAUNCH. FIGHT. - Hangar — assemble satellites from bus classes and payload modules. Kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy, jammers, sensors. - Launch — assign to a rocket, choose LEO, MEO, GEO or polar, and watch it climb. - Orbital AOR — the live battlefield. Maneuver, coordinate strike packages, fight. The clock never stops. Time runs in all three modes at once, and leaving the orbital view means trusting your constellation to survive without you. TIER AGAINST TIER Every weapon, sensor, and jammer is rated one through five. Higher tiers defeat lower ones, but nothing defeats an equal. Research costs time and money, and your opponent is climbing the same tree at the same time. ORBITAL MECHANICS AS STRATEGY A satellite can only strike what it passes over. Changing orbit costs fuel and takes time you may not have. Position is everything, and position is governed by physics rather than by wishing. THE ORBIT REMEMBERS Every satellite you destroy leaves debris, and debris does not go away. Foul a strategically valuable orbit and it stays fouled for the rest of the campaign — for your enemy, and for you. SHIFTING ALLIANCES Third-party nations move between hostile and allied based on what you spend, what you protect, and what you share. Allies contribute ground sensors and basing rights. Your opponent is courting them too.