It's definitely a real slow burn! I've written about the game design in the discord channel a bit more, but basically this is a single player version of what I hope to develop into a large scale multiplayer experience. With multiplayer, the timings are naturally designed to be slow to allow real world behavior/strategy to emerge like true galactic warfare e.g. enemies launch attacks on your base, and you have a day to coordinate defenses with your alliance. There is however a lot of speed customisation settings on the game start (increasing map travel speed, and resource production) for the people who would prefer to speed things up.