In theory, we don't have to use the official Adastral servers - there's nothing special, and people should be able to host their own backends for their own games, or in the case that the official servers are down.
There's no code to support this in the client however, and exactly what an alternate server would entail in terms of security hasn't been fully discussed in the dev team. This may be pushed back to beta 2, or even post release.
In theory, we don't have to use the official Adastral servers - there's nothing special, and people should be able to host their own backends for their own games, or in the case that the official servers are down.
There's no code to support this in the client however, and exactly what an alternate server would entail in terms of security hasn't been fully discussed in the dev team. This may be pushed back to beta 2, or even post release.