First Steps
When you enter My Galaxy for the first time, you pick a character who represents you in diplomacy, messages, and the story of your empire. There is no wrong choice for beginners.
After that you receive your own solar system and, inside it, a home location — your headquarters (HQ). The system is yours at start; other players start in their systems. Open the map, find your base, and click it to open the location menu. Construction, research, shipyard, storage, and more start here.
Two weeks of newcomer protection apply only in this home system — time to stand up energy, production, and population. Gates work immediately. If you leave the system, protection does not travel with you.
Recommended first actions:
- Look over your solar system — sun in the centre, planets, moons, stations, wrecks, asteroids, and jump gates at the rim.
- Open your HQ — see which buildings you already have and read the build list (not every building fits every location).
- Open Quests in the main menu. The card shows a picture and a number. Finish the number, the reward arrives once, and the next task from the game appears.
- Build colony ships and expand quickly. The gates are open. Claim new worlds early, not after the home system is full.
- Keep water and plants in surplus. Supply has to hold. If either one goes negative, citizens turn unhappy.
- Raise the main line: regulit, crystal, silicon, metal, and aluminium each to at least +250 per hour.
- Watch the population. Bring mood to at least 60 and keep it there.
- Open the main menu (burger icon, top left) — quests, maps, messages, and settings.
- Bookmark this guide — for quick reference.
The two weeks of protection apply only at home. Outside it, supply and the main line already need to be in surplus, or the new world starves before it stands.