From the GSB website:
Single or multiplayer?
The focus of the game is singleplayer, but the game has an element similar to the 'massively singleplayer' aspect of Spore, in that a player can design his/her ultimate fleet for a given mission, then 'challenge' another player through our servers. The challenge data is uploaded and the player is notified that an enemy fleet is available to kick their stellar ass. They can then battle against this new 'enemy' fleet, and stats on how many attempts were needed to ensure victory are stored and displayed back to the challenger. In this way, you can play against your friends in a sort of 'play-by-email' method, but without the email :D We will release more details on this closer to launch.
New information on multiplayer system
The GSB website has been updated with information about how the multi-player challenges will work
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