Vaultbreakers: Mathmadman & Seyphir’s Journey to Shatter Limits

Every game has its pioneers—the players who refuse to accept boundaries and instead redefine what’s possible. In Starborne: Frontiers, those pioneers are known as the Vaultbreakers: Mathmadman and Seyphir. Together, they approached the Vault battles with determination, creativity, and relentless testing.

Both players started their Frontiers journeys separately, but fate had other plans. “I first ran into Seyphir in our previous alliance, then moved to Galaxy Guards shortly after him,” recalls Mathmadman. What began as casual collaboration quickly became a shared obsession: solving the riddle of the Hermes/Hayyan Cheat Death compositions.
For Seyphir, the inspiration came directly from his new teammate: “Got inspired by the great Mathmadman. We both like Crocus and so we got in contact and talked and exchanged ideas.”
That spark would soon ignite one of the game’s most influential discoveries.

The duo set their sights on what many considered an unsolvable problem: creating a team that could keep Hermes’ Cheat Death active every single round. For Mathmadman, it became an engineering challenge: “At this point it became a question of generating six instances of crit per round with only four units.”
Dozens of tests, breakdowns, and “what if” scenarios followed. When Mathmadman finally saw success, he sent Seyphir a simple but unforgettable message:

“It worked… IT WORKED!!!”

That run lasted ninety minutes and dealt 84 million damage—a personal best at the time, and the first true proof-of-concept for what would become known as the Vaultbreaker team.

From that breakthrough, the pair turned their attention to the game’s toughest challenges. Antimatter and Thermal Vaults fell first, using the same compositions. But Chemical Vault proved elusive.
“We had no solution for Chemical,” Mathmadman admits. “Almost every double-attacker is Electric.” Xcellence looked promising but failed to deliver. The breakthrough came in the most unexpected place—Tormentor’s passive:

“This unit always lands critical hits.”

“I've never seen such a beautiful sentence before,” says Mathmadman.

Together, the duo crafted a setup that not only conquered Chemical Vault but went on to record-breaking results. Seyphir’s final run hit the milestone that cemented their legacy:

The first billion-damage battle in Starborne: Frontiers history.

Beyond the numbers and the records, both Vaultbreakers emphasize one core message: experimentation. “Try things, even if you think it will fail,” urges Mathmadman. “Just because no one has tried a build doesn’t mean it isn’t viable.”
Seyphir echoes that sentiment: “To all players out there trying to find new stuff: just do it and test things, re-read abilities of Units and also ask for help or ideas!”

The name “Vaultbreakers” now stands for more than just a team—it’s a mindset.
A refusal to accept limits. A reminder that with creativity, persistence, and a touch of flair, players can achieve the impossible.
Or, in the words of Mathmadman:
“If you’re going to set records, you gotta do it with flair.”