Taskbar Colony

There is a thin slice of empty space above your taskbar. Someone should colonize it.Taskbar Colony is an idle space colony that lives in a transparent strip along the bottom of your screen. Tiny colonists scavenge, build, and haul cargo while you work, browse, or play. Glance down now and then, catch a supply pod, buy a building, and get back to your day.A colony above your taskbarLives in a slim, transparent, always-on-top strip that sits just above the Windows taskbarClick-through everywhere except the colony itself, so your desktop stays 100% usableStretch it across the whole screen, keep it compact, or minimize it to a tiny stat badgeAn idle economy that respects your dayNine building types, from Solar Arrays to a horizon-bending Terraformer Supply pods drop in, cargo ships return for pickup, and colonists wander aroundNamed milestones raise your rate as the colony grows into a cityOffline earnings keep the lights on for up to 8 hours while you are awayCrew who are actually somebodyColonists arrive with a name and a trade, and drift toward the work they doThey doze at night, notice your cursor, and can be checked on for a moment of their timeThe ones aboard at liftoff are remembered by name in the Colony LogFour systems, not one long curveResearch projects that change how the colony works, not just how fast it goesDirectives you choose from a board and swap whenever you like, never on a timerThe Charter, where prestige stops being a number that goes up and becomes something you spendLanding Sites that change what the ground under a new colony is worthEvacuate. Prestige. Refound.When a colony is rich enough, load everyone onto the colony ship and lift offEvery evacuation banks prestige to spend on the Charter, permanentlyEach colony gets its own generated name and a place in your Colony LogFly a flag over every settlement: pick a built-in, or make your own in the Steam WorkshopAn endgame you build in the skyThe Orbital Ring is assembled one span at a time, each carried up by an evacuationEight spans, then a single ignition you only ever get to watch onceAfter that the sky over every new colony is different, forever It behaves itselfAutomatically hides (and goes silent) when any app runs fullscreen 24 achievements, stats, Steam Cloud saves, and Steam rich presence built inA reduced-motion option for the ambient effects, and the keyboard is never requiredBuilt to sip resources: capped frame rate, no giant overlay, no input lagA very small frontier, right above the Start button.