Flight manual

• Click canvas — pointer lock steering. Arrow keys — keyboard steering.
• W / S — forward / brake-reverse. A / D — strafe. Q / E or Space/C — vertical.
• Adaptive speed — like Space Engine, the speed you select is a ceiling. Actual speed is proportional to the distance to the nearest planet, moon, the Sun or Saturn's ring plane, so a surface is always about 3 seconds away at full throttle (Flight panel → approach time). You slow down smoothly as you arrive and speed up as you leave; close to a surface the limit never drops below 400 km/h. Arrival eases onto the 10 km clearance and never bounces. LIMIT in the HUD shows the effective cap.
• Starts at 1 billion km/h maximum. Wheel up/down changes it by about ten times per notch; hold Alt for fine adjustment. The MAX FLIGHT SPEED slider spans 0.36 to 1 trillion km/h. [ / ] divides/multiplies it by ten. X brakes. Speed is relative to the active planetary frame, shown in the HUD. Very high speeds are illustrative warp travel.
• Relative movement / gravity [G] gradually shares the movement of nearby planets, moons, asteroids and locally rendered system planets. Saturn's rings also provide a local co-orbiting frame; close visible ice chunks can become individual references. Inward attraction depends on physical size, not debris magnification. Fly outward to escape; adaptive speed grows with distance. Heading and altitude remain free. G disables attraction and fades out the motion assist.
• Ring debris size — exploration magnifies chunks 25,000× for visibility; physical size uses metre-scale grains. Ring dimensions and orbital rates are unchanged.
• Minimum clearance is 10 km above rocky surfaces; gas giants use an illustrative cloud deck. Inward flight eases to a stop there; sideways and outward flight stay free. Sky colour and star visibility change with altitude and daylight. Orbital assist does not rotate the camera or select an altitude.
• Surface geometry is simple in this phase. Detailed mountains, rivers and vegetation come later. Confirmed exoplanet ground appearance and atmosphere are illustrative/unknown.
• 1–8 — warp to planet. 0 — home view (Earth). N — body-name labels. F — clear view / restore controls.
• Navigate → explore uncharted region — visit a new procedural galaxy. Repeated voyages explore all six directions.