Defend the Station. Save Humanity.

In the 29th century, humanity has discovered faster-than-light travel and begun a rapid expansion across the galaxy. FTL is risky under the best of circumstances, but with the discovery of alien life, opposition has become the norm. Heavily armed outposts are now required to ensure humanity's safety across the dark expanse of space.

Orion-6 is the most critical outpost in the galaxy, guarding a heavily trafficked FTL pathway through the Orion gateway. Positioned at the edge of known space, you are the station commander. Defend against relentless waves of alien attackers, pirates, and environmental hazards. The whole of space seems determined to destroy everything humanity has worked to accomplish—starting with Orion-6.

Manage your resources, upgrade your weapons, and strategically place turrets to repel the onslaught. Every decision matters. Every second counts.

How To Play

Your mission is to defend Orion 6 from waves of increasingly difficult enemy and evironmental attacks. Master the stations mechanics to ensure humanity's survival:

Controls

• Mouse: Aim your weapons at enemy targets
• Left Click: Fire selected weapon / Select turret
• Number Keys (1-4): Quick-select weapon types
• R: Refill resources (debug mode)
• Space: Pause game

Station Resources

• Hull Integrity: Your station's health. If it reaches zero, game over.
• Shields: Absorb damage before it hits the hull. Regenerates over time.
• Energy: Powers your energy weapons and your shields.
• Supplies: Ammunition for projectile weapons like bullet turrets, rockets and floating mines.
• Enermy Detection: Helps you determine where your enemeies are gathering and manages early attack warning systems.
• Power Your primary power core hadnles everything. Research and develop better power production to survive the onslaughts ahead.
• AI Core: Everything is for nothing, without the AI core. Use it expand your potential in all apsects of your station.

Enemy Types

• Boarding Craft: Fast, weak ships that try to connect to and take control of the station.
• Interceptors: Quick fighters that orbit close and harass, and clear the bombing paths.
• Fighters: Balanced combat ships with moderate firepower and agressive AI, allowing extreme evasion and comabt.
• Cruisers: Heavy ships that perform devastating fly-by attacks, with an array of advanced tactical weaponary.
• Command Ships: Massive vessels that coordinate attacks from afar, launch devistating long range weapons and always the source of your greatest threat.
• Asteroids: Random storms of seemingly endless showers of rock and metal that wreak complete havoc on your stations.
• Solar Storms: Intense radiation storms, that can severly reduce your ability to carry out your mission.

Technology

• Orion-6 has any expansive technology tree, explore the options and put your resources where you like.
• For those who like to pull the trigger, expand weaponary, shielding, pwoer capicity, ammo production, and storage.
• For those who like to automate, expand AI logic systems, power production, detection systems, weapon automation, and let your stations handle the battle.
• For the tech junkies, crawl through vast options for evolving your station from a defense output, to a thriving fortress and trade route.
• Orion-6 offers many ways to play and many ways to evolve.

Tips

• Focus fire on boarding craft - they deal massive damage if they reach the station, and can take over your ssystems.
• Balance energy weapons over projectiles when possible, to protect your shield defenses.
• Watch your resource levels and let them regenerate during battle lulls.
• The command ships are always the biggest threat to your mission - take them out to disrupt enemy coordination.
• Nature and the whole of space my be the cause or asteroids and solar storms, but your enemies will definitively take advantage of every opportunity.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2025

Information We Collect

Orion 6 is designed with your privacy in mind. We collect minimal data necessary to provide and improve the game experience:

• Anonymous gameplay statistics (scores, progression)
• Device information for optimization purposes
• Crash reports to fix bugs

How We Use Your Information

Any data collected is not personally identifiable.

• We collect zero data about you, so we can not sell or pass on any information about you.

Data Storage

Your game progress is stored locally on your device. Optional cloud saves may be implemented in future updates with your explicit consent.

Contact

For privacy concerns or questions, please contact us at: privacy@orion-6.com

Credits

Development

• Game Design & Programming: TC Nelson - Orion 6 Team
• Engine: Godot 4.5

Art Assets

• Space station designs - VTrixDev
• Enemy ship sprites - VTrixDev, Quicky
• Explosion effects - Mikael
• Nebula's and Planet backgrounds - Mikael

Audio

• Music - Suno Original compositions guided by TC Nelson
• Sound effects - Epic Stock Media, TC Nelson

Special Thanks

Thank you to all our playtesters and the Godot community for their invaluable feedback and support throughout development.

Tools Used

• Godot Engine 4.5
• Aseprite
• Audacity
• Claude AI (Development Assistant)