Humanity reached stars using megacorporation funds to fuel exploration & expansion. You're one of the station architects who's trying to pay off debt taken from one of such corporations. It was the only way to purchase the cheapest ship & equipment required to start fresh, off-earth.

Good management of resources is your golden ticket to freedom & richness. It's deep space after all.

Units
The building block of your base, they work, eat, die.

Trade
As soon as you'll have your dock port - you will start to get visitors offering & needing various goods.

Production
Change one resource into another, more complex one, with the help of devices at your station. Base resources are obtained by mining asteroids.

Quests
Complete Quests to progress through the story.

Tech
To produce more advanced goods, you'll need to get production devices blueprints. Spy on visiting ships to gain them.