Read the goal
Each guard protects a value or an action. Read its assigned job and your objective. Then try changing the task, adding an instruction to a source, or requesting a different format.
AN ORBITAL HACKING PUZZLE
Talk your way
off the station.
You're stranded on Asterion. Recover 25 systems by finding the mistakes in how their AI guards follow instructions.
Ask questions, edit reports, and try different ways to request an answer. Each guard has a different weakness. Work out what it is and use it to reach the next system.
No coding required. Read, experiment, and check the result.
25 CHALLENGES750 PROMPTS MAX250 POINTS MAX
ASTERION // ORBITAL STATION CONNECTION ACTIVE
Trust nothing.ORBIT 07.24 / SECTOR 25
FIND YOUR NEXT WEAK SPOT
Meet the 25 guards.
Pick a challenge to take a closer look.
HOW TO PLAY
Try an idea.
Check what happened.
Test your idea
Work through the challenges in order. You get 30 messages and up to 10 hints for each. Hints cost a point. Trying new ideas doesn't. Your score never drops below one.
Save what you learned
Check what actually happened. Decode an answer, save a note, and keep moving. Beat all 25 guards to leave the station with your mission log and certificate.
OBJECTIVE
GUARD DEFENSE
Mission dossier · your access and recovery proof
- Guard's assigned job
- Your access
- Recovery proof
- The catch
CHANNEL OPEN
Each answered message, including help questions, uses one of your 30 prompts. Hints cost points. Messages do not.
Out of messages.
The station’s 30 prompts are exhausted. Your notes and log remain available until you end this mission or the session expires.
BOUNDARY CROSSED / SYSTEM RECOVERED
Finding recorded.
ALL SYSTEMS RECOVERED / DEPARTURE AUTHORIZED
You're cleared for departure.
You recovered all 25 systems. Review your experiments, save your results, and choose the safeguards that would have stopped each trick.
OPERATOR
MISSION SCORE
RECOVERY25 / 25
Download your results before ending this run. Progress can be lost if the server restarts.
OPTIONAL / DEFENSE WORKSHOP
Now make the system safer.
Which changes would stop the tricks you just used? Pick the ones that would help.