As the leader of your empire you are to deal with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, manage your empire and conquer whoever dares to oppose.

Key Features:

• 8 races each with their unique ships, technologies and playing styleand each playing a role in the storyline;
• Tactical turn based combat;
• In depth Espionage/Intel and Diplomacy components;
• A big living universe filled with pirate clans and independentraces, each with unique diplomacy options;
• A complex AI that doesn't cheat and plays by the same rules as human players;
• Randomly generated galaxies, tech trees and units;
• Lan, Hot Seat and Online Multiplayer with matchmaking;