Theatres of Operations

Where your fleet can fight, from behind the Moon down to the treetops. Each theatre is a set of fixed places, linked by jumps.

• Deep space: the Moon and L1

  Three points 10,000 km above the Moon and Earth–Moon L1, the one gateway to Earth. Each is a circle of play 800 km across.

• Geostationary orbit

  Three points 35,786 km above the equator, 120° apart, that together see the whole globe except the poles. The crossroads between Earth and the Moon.

• Low Earth orbit

  Two points 400 km up, over Sumatra and over Ecuador, on opposite sides of the globe. The last step before the atmosphere.

• Atmosphere

  Two areas over Sumatra and Bangkok, 200 km across, flown in four height bands from 25 km down to 300 m over the ground. The game starts here.

Places →

• Bukittinggi, 25 km up

  Bukittinggi in West Sumatra was Hostile Flagship's first surface area: NASA height maps, generated ridges, haze, a thin cloud sheet, forest and a generated town.

• Bangkok

  The game starts over Bangkok: a 200 km area on the Chao Phraya plain, with forest where the map shows forest, rivers sized by their flow, and a generated city.

Terrain Features →

• Hills and mountains

  The shape of the ground comes from NASA's height map, curved with the Earth, with generated ridges for the detail the map lacks.

• Forest

  Rainforest grows only where the satellite map shows forest, and fills a whole area 200 km across, drawn as clumps of trees about 100 m wide.

• Rivers

  Rivers drawn from river data, each as wide as its flow, running on to the sea. Nothing lands, grows or is built on them.

• Towns

  Towns are generated, not mapped: streets, shophouses, a dense core and a few towers. Ships cannot land in a town or its fringe.

• Sea

  The sea comes from the satellite map: clear blue counts as water for the ground, the trees and landing alike.