Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-13088

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Release

Dec 31, 1983

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Simulator

Overview

A highly comprehensive and complex space exploration game. You can chose between several career paths like trading, passenger transport, ore mining, smuggling, cargo transport and piracy. Depending on your career choice you have to outfit your space ship accordingly and in most cases hire an appropriate crew depending on what you are set out to do.

Storyline

During the latter part of the First Stellar Expansion, it became evident that the technology from planets in the Home Cluster could not support the ever expanding colonization effort. The hyperdrive had opened an era of fast, economical travel between the stars. Journeys that used to consume decades could be made in a matter of days. However, the hyperdrive was not without its problems. Its unrefueled maximum range was a major limitation. After 3 or 4 hyperjumps, the ship would be completely out of the inhabited regions, with nowhere to refuel. Its fuel capacity was also part of the second limitation: the so-called "Mass Limit." Stated simpl…