Kardashev Garden

Astral Seed

A Von Neumann Swarm

Coming soon

System view

The swarm

One self-replicating probe arrives in a star system. Every asteroid it mines becomes another probe, and every probe goes looking for another asteroid.

  1. 01

    Choose a system

    Our own Solar System, the twin suns of Kepler-16, or any number of unique systems.

  2. 02

    Set the rules

    Decide the parameters of the swarm. Mining speed, replication time, weapons capacity, even copying errors %.

  3. 03

    Throw disasters at it

    A rival swarm, a stellar flare, upstart natives. See what survives.

  4. 04

    Watch the numbers

    Probe count, generations, the mass eaten in real kilograms and more, live as it happens.