You will be drawn into a web of intrigue secret plots, assassination attempts, intergalactic war. Shop for starship hardware, do favors for aliens, carouse in bars - even play HIVE!, the galaxy's hottest arcade game. Meet and converse with the inhabitants of the Far Arm: Imperial troopers, merchant princes, talkative robots, and treacherous pirates. Every action you take affects your reputation, and who calls you friend or foe. Make a fortune - and a name - trading cargo, bounty hunting, or plundering merchant ships. Authentic spaceflight dynamics push your piloting skills to the limit. Feel the tug of gravity as you whip around a star. Outfit your ship with plasma torpedoes, plasteel armor, particle beams, missiles, force shields, ECM units and more.Įxecute loops, rolls, and spins. Watch combat from cockpit, chase plane, or cinematic camera angles.Įngage cunning foes in heated dogfights, where you'll have to outgun and outsmart your opponents to taste victory. Trek through an astonishingly realistic universe with outposts and mining stations, planets and asteroids, stars and starships - all in spectacular 3D graphics. You hope it wasn't one of their Corsairs you vaporized out there. The orbit will be loaded automatically as the selection is changed, and camera position adjusted automatically to. Later, over a pint of Rigelian in the Lagrange cantina, you listen as a bounty hunter tells of the Scarlet Brotherhood, the most notorious band of pirates in the Far Arm. Visualize the orbits of the planets and more than 150 comets and asteroids in an interactive 3d viewer based on WebGL Key functions: Pick Object: allows to select the Solar Ststem object to be visualized. Spinning to protect your stern, you launch a heat seeker.ĭirect hit: the Corsair bursts into shards. One hits, knocking down your rear shield. You roll hard to avoid the incoming plasma torps.
Suddenly, the klaxon screams out a warning. Dropping out of hyperspace, you lay a course for Lagrange Station.