Starship Horizons Knowledge Base

Starship Horizons is a multi‑crew starship bridge simulator. One machine runs the game; everyone else joins from a web browser on the same network or over the internet, and each player takes a console — helm, weapons, engineering, and so on. There is nothing to install for players.

This knowledge base is in three parts.

Getting Started

How to run the server, how players join, and how a Game Master sets up and runs a session.

• Running Your First Session — from launching the server to a crew in their seats
• Joining A Session — what players do
• Consoles And Screens — every station the game can serve, and what it is for
• Hosting Over The Internet — ports, public addresses and firewalls
• Running A Session As Game Master — the GM console during play

Standard Roles

What each bridge officer actually does, panel by panel, and how to be good at it.

• Standard Roles — how consoles, vessels and roles fit together
• Captain · Flight · Tactical · Operations · Sciences · Engineer

Technical Reference

For people building content and for people extending the client.

• Modding With Hydra Studio — the editor suite: modules, missions, vessels, maps
• Client Architecture — how a console page is assembled and served
• Widgets — the unit of client UI, and how to write one

A note on older entries

This knowledge base has been rebuilt. Entries written for earlier releases are still present and still reachable, but they are not linked from the Directory and some describe systems that no longer exist — the mission XML element reference in particular was last revised in 2016 and does not match the current file format. Where an older entry and a linked entry disagree, the linked one is current.