# Weekly Star Atlas Newsletter #226 Published April 20, 2026 by Funcracker. _Welcome to our 226th newsletter on Star Atlas! This weekly newsletter, published by Aephia Industries, focuses entirely on the development of this ambitious game. Here, we attempt to aggregate all the newsworthy tidbits revealed, primarily by the team, throughout the past week._ --- Last week, we got our first glimpse of **Ship Configurations** in the upcoming **SAGE C4**. Meanwhile, in Holosim, the **Superphoenix** event went live, giving players their first chance over the past few days to take on the ECOS Titan ship. On the governance side, **PIP-31** opened to fund Star Seekers 2 and will remain open for voting for two weeks. Lastly, applications are now open for players looking to take a seat at the table in the first official **Embercoil RPG campaign**. _Let’s dive in!_ ## SAGE C4 Possibly the highlight of last week: During the [Atlas Brew](https://youtu.be/FZpxASMc8XA), José (Lorewriter) showed off a video demonstrating Ship Configurations in SAGE C4\. This is a major slice of upcoming gameplay that we had not seen revealed before. Check it out: [Star Atlas - SAGE C4 - Config Bay Reveal \[WIP\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5qWpa_XZd0) ## Holosim The main story for Holosim Season 1, Chapter 2, last week was that the **Superphoenix** event finally left test-state ambiguity and became a real, live event. The official post framed it as a cross-faction boss event running from **Friday, 17 April at 0:00 UTC through Tuesday, 21 April at 0:00 UTC**, with repeated encounters across all faction territories: **Akalma Exile** for MUD, **Pavo Passage** for Ustur, and **Zenith Door** for Oni. The Superphoenix and its support fleets spawn and move toward a target sector, with damage counting toward the quests **Breaking the Wings** and **Fall of the Superphoenix**. John (Product Manager) filled in the operational details on Discord: the event rotates every **three hours,** and each run should last about 1.5 hours, with extra defenses spawned around **Pavo** while the team tuned things for the weekend. The team has logs for everyone who hit the support fleets and the titan, so retroactive kill credit can be awarded after the fact. John also said a **single hit** on the support fleets and a **single hit** on the **Superphoenix** should be enough for quest completion, with the **Pavo** rescue path acting as a fallback while bugs were being sorted out. ### Chapter 2 – Part 2 When the Superphoenix event ends, a leaderboard snapshot will be taken for the **first prize pool**. **Mining achievements** still earn **zXP** through the end of the chapter, but they no longer count toward leaderboard placement, while **combat achievements** affect the leaderboard but do **not** award zXP. The second half of Chapter 2 is now expected **before the end of the month**, bringing a rebuilt combat-focused leaderboard, a new in-game store, and in-app purchases, followed by a second prize pool. [Atlas Brew #200](https://youtu.be/FZpxASMc8XA) added a few roadmap details. John said that **after the Superphoenix event** and **the launch of the in-game store** (where additional crew members can be acquired), the Holosim codebase will get its own dedicated repository. It is currently part of a monorepo for the entire play-portal website. This new repo will then become the platform for **Chapter 3** development. That same split also brings the first limited form of **mobile accessibility** to Chapter 2: not a fully mobile-optimized Holosim, but enough to open the app on a phone, dock ships, manage crew, and do some crafting. The key point is not “Holosim mobile” as a standalone product. The key point is that the post-marketplace branch is becoming the bridge into Chapter 3 infrastructure. ## DAO Updates Last week, **PIP-31** moved from teaser to live vote. The proposal asks the DAO to fund **Star Seekers 2**, a community-built mobile game set in the Star Atlas universe. ### PIP-31: [Star Seekers 2 — Mobile Game DAO Funding Proposal](https://govern.staratlas.com/proposals/e71fb1a7-6d19-4565-8ff8-b4e79a3f8c16) > This proposal requests 13,000,000 ATLAS from the Star Atlas DAO Ecosystem Fund to complete and launch Star Seekers 2, a cross-platform mobile space-combat game inspired by the Star Atlas universe, on both iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Structure: * **Requested funding:** 13,000,000 ATLAS * **Structure**: 1-off PIP * **Author**: PG Metaverse OG * **Voting Opened**: Friday, April 17th * **Voting Closes**: Friday, May 1st (end-of-day UTC) Early results (\~2 days in, \~9.0M PVP committed): * **For**: 55.4% * **Against**: 44.6% ## Embercoil Campaign The biggest lore development of the week was not a wiki page or a fiction drop, but the launch of **Embercoil**, Star Atlas’ first official live **tabletop RPG campaign**. An [application form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePWziE2heIVP9dpgNIDZqaYL6aBQFeS9T9coiS36PIoqwPxA/viewform) is now open for players who want to join the first campaign, with a deadline of **April 27**. During [Lore Keepers #20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3rnW3hFcw), José described Embercoil as a **podcast-style, live-play RPG** set in an unexplored corner of the Star Atlas universe, with community members joining the cast. More importantly, he said the outcomes of the campaign will become **canon** in Star Atlas lore. José also said the system itself was designed from scratch for this setting rather than being a simple _Dungeons & Dragons_ reskin, and that if the project works, he would like to publish the **campaign books and supporting materials** later as official Star Atlas products. He even floated the idea of broader community participation in the show itself, from concept art and map creation to music. ## Sneak Peeks **Pathfinder Studios** posted some never-before-seen concept art of the [Busan eyes for a Moment](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0lyml8) ship that they produced: ![Star Atlas - Busan Eyes for a Moment [Old Concept by Pathfinder Studios] ](https://assets.aephia.com/wp-assets/6d8f2f473d0bf1c82963792cdfd19e8086cd94f390561fbce746ebf295baa7c3.png) Star Atlas – Busan Eyes for a Moment \[[Old Concept](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0lyml8) by [Pathfinder Studios](https://www.artstation.com/pathfinder_visualdesign)\] ![Star Atlas - Busan Eyes for a Moment [Old Concept by Pathfinder Studios] ](https://assets.aephia.com/wp-assets/8e9e3d50ee4773c889bb40c540e0ddcd99fb9d44611c4dae2b60570ca8f4fea3.png) Star Atlas – Busan Eyes for a Moment \[[Old Concept](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0lyml8) by [Pathfinder Studios](https://www.artstation.com/pathfinder_visualdesign)\] In addition, during the Atlas Brew, some concept art was shared of vzus drones: ![Star Atlas - vzus drone [Concept Art]](https://assets.aephia.com/wp-assets/46f5247ebf0b9d6c3601ed9b8faa812483d0701491cc749a0f514472f278c483.png) Star Atlas – vzus drone \[Concept Art\] ![Star Atlas - vzus drone [Concept Art]](https://assets.aephia.com/wp-assets/7b14869ba428510e7f1c8ef6be9be9929454d6b82b1c1ddc30f2439e36330fd6.webp) Star Atlas – vzus drone \[Concept Art\] ## DAO Casters – Subscriber Raffle If you read this far, we have a surprise for you! As part of the **Star Atlas DAO Casters Program**, we’re able to give back to you, our readers, with a total of **360,000 ATLAS** in prizes! If you’re subscribed to the newsletter, simply [fill out this simple, short form](https://forms.gle/zPefnTP9aNHYNUSB8) within the next **7 days** to enter the raffle. We’ll randomly select **5 winners**, and each will receive **72,000 ATLAS** (\~13 USD at the time of publication). _That is it for this week! Thanks for reading, and until the next!_