Ever wanted to rule the galaxy? Now's your chance!
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction. Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves) is a target of opportunity.
Utilize your silver tongue to twist other Empires into submitting under your galaxy-class wit with a complex and full-featured diplomacy system or wheel-and-deal your way to supremacy.
Research deadly new weapons, new engines, shields, and more with a research web whose contents are shuffled with every game.
Explore vast interstellar phenomenae such as black holes and asteroid belts and exploit them for yourself or destroy them to deny your foes.
Match your wits with up to 10 online or LAN-linked opponents, save the game when dawn breaks, and boot it back up at dusk. It isn't over until you say it is!
Mod the game to suit your playstyle! Your weapons, your ships, your rules. Almost the entire game can be modified entirely through an editor as simple as notepad. Easily add new models and particle effects to the game with a robust set of out-of-the-box developer tools.
Features
* Vast, Procedurally Generated Galaxies: Choose however many systems you desire - limited only by the speed of your CPU. Rich, diverse planets whose type, size, number of moons and other characteristics vary makes every game unique.
* Intricate Ship Design and Exciting Combat: Massive ship battles fought in real-time with particle effects and directional damage with full simulated Newtonian physics. Individual ship components can be compromised, destroyed, disabled, repaired and renovated.
* Unique Research System: Explore a web-like research system with unexpected discovereies around every turn. Choose between a structured, static web or a highly varied web each game.
* Easy to Use Interface; Complex Gameplay: Govern your planets with a simple, yet powerful interface to customize the behavior of your worlds. Customize the GUI via scripting to add new windows or change existing interface behavior.
* Engaging AI Opponents: Choosen from various levels of difficulty, with optional 'cheating' AIs. AIs will adapt their ship designs and strategies to counter yours.
* Extensive Modding Support: Modify data files and scripts in any editor. Use developer tools to create particle effects and configure imported models. Smart use of AngelScript allows users to create entirely new game modes, gameplay and online experiences.
* Multiplayer: Co-Op, Team and Free-For-All: Play with as many competitors as your server can manage, with drop-in-drop-out compatibility over LAN or Internet. Multiplayer games can be saved, played in single-player, and then brought back into multiplayer.
* Original Soundtrack by Artem Bank.
