# Prospect: a local server for The Cycle: Frontier

> Prospect is an unfinished local server emulator for The Cycle: Frontier. An injected Windows component hooks the client’s PlayFab URL function to redirect requests to localhost, and a C# API contains handlers for Steam-ticket login and user data. Local redirection is implemented; authentication, lobby functionality and CloudScript remain unfinished.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/AeonLucid/Prospect>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/AeonLucid/Prospect/blob/0b75b1b100d899a3257f6e4a62ac8b5a6b271a2a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/prospect-cycle-frontier-server-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/prospect-cycle-frontier-server-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/prospect-cycle-frontier-server-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A copy of the specified The Cycle: Frontier closed-beta build is required.
- **Prerequisites:** The setup opens src/Prospect.sln in Rider or Visual Studio and launches the game through Prospect.Launcher.exe.
- **Limits:** The README marks authentication, lobby functionality and CloudScript as unfinished.
- **License:** AGPL-3.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/AeonLucid/Prospect/blob/0b75b1b100d899a3257f6e4a62ac8b5a6b271a2a/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/AeonLucid/Prospect/blob/0b75b1b100d899a3257f6e4a62ac8b5a6b271a2a/src/Prospect.Agent/main.cpp>
3. <https://github.com/AeonLucid/Prospect/blob/0b75b1b100d899a3257f6e4a62ac8b5a6b271a2a/src/Prospect.Server.Api/Controllers/ClientController.cs>

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