Salvage War
Nadir, the crater city · cinematic art
Salvage War · a Command & Conquer-style RTS

The resource falls from orbit. Mid-match.

In 2094 the Meridian Ring fell out of the sky. Thirteen years later its wreckage is the richest thing on Earth, and it is still coming down. The company that built it wants it back. The people it fell on say it is theirs.

Factions

Who owns what falls from the sky?

Two at launch
Faction 01 · Halcyon, Lift Four

The Meridian Consortium

“We built the sky. We’re taking it back.”

They built and paid for the Ring, and by the accord they signed in 2039 every piece of it is still theirs. Few units, expensive, precise, shielded. You win by never taking a bad trade.

Enter the Consortium
Faction 02 · Nadir, the crater city

The League of the Fallen Lands

“You dropped your sky on our heads. Now it’s ours.”

The wreckage lies on their land and their families' graves, and nobody ever paid. Many units, cheap, built from scrap. A lost unit is replaceable; a lost field is not.

Enter the League
UnitsFewMany
CostExpensiveCheap
ArmourShieldedScrap
EconomyDronesCamps
ClaimAccord, 2039Charter, 2097
One skeleton · two answersWhy both sides share it
  1. MSD TrooperRifle infantrySalvager Rifles
  2. LancerAnti-tankSpike Team
  3. Claims AgentEngineerMechanic
  4. SkimmerScoutRattler
  5. AegisMain tankRingbreaker
  6. HaloArtillerySlinger
  7. Salvage DroneHarvesterCrawler
  8. SovereignSignatureExcavator
The signature mechanic

Debris incoming

In-game · cinematic camera · current build
01

The zone is called

Orbit tracking announces the impact site seconds ahead. Whatever stands there moves or dies.

02

The sky lands

The fragment hits, scorches the ground and throws a streak of debris downrange. Units and buildings in the zone take the blast.

03

Fresh, rich, finite

A new salvage field, richer than anything on the map. It does not regrow. Both sides race for it, and the match turns on who holds it.

412.6km above the belt
Node Zero, the largest fragment still in orbit · decay −0.9 km / day · impact window Q1 2028 · predicted site Nadir crater rim The Fall
Dispatches

From the belt

All dispatches
2026-10-22 · Development

Does the impact change who wins? Not yet.

Four hundred and eighty matches against the gate. With scarce fields the craters pay, but nobody fights over one yet. What the AI has to learn before the gate passes.

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