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A slow galaxy for people who'd rather think than click. Give your orders, and the universe resolves them on the tick.

Astral Sovereignty is a tick-based space empire strategy game. You rule one empire inside a persistent galaxy, starting with a single homeworld and a fog-of-war map. You don't click faster than anyone else — you give orders, and at a fixed, scheduled moment the galaxy resolves them all at once. Then you read what happened and decide what's next. It rewards planning, logistics and knowing the map, not reflexes.

Habitability is relative. Every world is described across six environmental axes, and every species has its own comfort range on each. There is no universal good planet — a world that kills one empire's colonists is another's paradise, and two players can look at the same rock and reasonably disagree.

The NPC empires are not scenery. They hold colonies, expand, build, run supply routes, defend themselves and fight each other, using exactly the same orders and rules a player uses, with no special privileges. A new player arrives into a galaxy with history rather than an empty board.

Orbit is not ownership. Taking a colony means training garrisons, carrying them on transports and landing them. An invasion resolves over two ticks — you establish a beachhead, and the fight resolves after — so the defender gets a tick to react.

Absence is designed for. Colony managers, order queues, standing routes and a caretaker exist so that having a job or a timezone is not a disadvantage.

Run a space company that keeps working while the app is closed. Launch rockets, build bases on eleven worlds, haul it home.

Haulspar is a calm, real-time space company sim for Android. The government hires your company as its contractor: you launch satellites and rockets, scan and survey worlds, land crews, and build bases on eleven of them — the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Phobos, Deimos, Ceres and Jupiter's four big moons. You refine what you dig, haul it home and sell it, and research better rockets to reach further. Every job runs on a timer that keeps going while the app is closed, and a Codex in the game explains every resource, ship, building and world.

Time away is time worked. Builds, flights, rover trips and production all run on timers that keep going while the app is closed. You come back to finished builds and full storage, not a game that waited for you.

Every flight is a plan you read first. Range, fuel, who is aboard and what it pays are on the screen before you commit to a launch.

Eleven worlds, each its own. Venus is heavy to lift off from and rich in ore under its clouds. Mercury hides ice in its polar craters. Ceres is a water world in the belt, and Europa has the richest ice anywhere.

The rules are in the game. The Codex explains every resource, ship, building and world, and the rules behind fuel, oxygen, range and crew — then takes you to the right screen with one tap.

One developer, one step at a time. Haulspar is built in small playable steps, and each one is played on a phone before the next begins.