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Some planets are plagued by natural dangers such as lightning storms, earthquakes, or lava, which can damage or destroy landing modules. Each planet is unique in the type of minerals and metals it is formed of. The player has to send a landing module to the planet and then guide it around the surface as it picks up materials found earlier with a scanner. Raw materials are found on the surfaces of planets and moons throughout the galaxy. Successfully completing a quest for an alien race may also result in their combat ships joining the fleet. These include purchasing smaller ships to accompany the main one on its travels and participate in combat hiring crew members, which effectively act as the hit points of the ships and upgrading the main ship with enhancements that improve its speed, maneuverability, and combat efficiency. It is possible to buy fuel, as well as improve the player-controlled fleet in various ways. Raw materials are used as currency to make purchases in the starbase. The main starship is the Precursor vessel and it can be used to travel between star systems, which uses up fuel.

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Aliens can be dealt with diplomatically, through a series of dialog options, or engaged in combat.Īlongside the main plot objective, the player also configures and upgrades his fleet in a role-playing fashion. Outside the sphere, encounters are rarer. Within the sphere, the aliens have a controlling presence and their ships will venture freely.

These are represented on the starmap by a sphere of influence. Throughout space are different alien civilizations. There is also a starmap available which shows the entire galaxy and allows the player to set the ship on auto-pilot to any star. Space is treated as two-dimensional and presented in a top-down view. While in deep space, the starship can approach any star it comes across, and then the player can guide the ship around its system and land on its planets and their moons. The main objective is to gather as many allies as possible, though only a few alliances are required to complete the game.

Each species has its own personal traits and would usually require the player to exploit conversation trees or perform different tasks to convince them to join. The game's main focus is on exploring a vast galaxy consisting of numerous star systems and interacting with various alien species populating it. Unlike its predecessor, it has a heavily plot-driven, quest-based structure reminiscent of role-playing or adventure games. Star Control II is a hybrid game based on exploration, space combat, and ship customization. The captain contacts the starbase commander and finds out that the only way to defeat the Ur-Quan is to convince other races populating the galaxy to join them in their struggle. The surface of Earth is glowing red, devoid of life, and a few humans are locked in a starbase orbiting the planet. Upon return, the captain of the ship discovers, to his dismay, that Earth has become one of Ur-Quan's slave planets. The survivors of this research team had come across the controls to a Starship factory and used it to build a Precursor supply vessel, one of the largest vessels in the galaxy. However, unknown to the Ur-Quan, a small research vessel had been lost during the war while sent to a distant star system looking for evidence of the ancient Precursor race. The Ur-Quan armada systematically hunts down the alliance races and imprisons them onto their homeworlds. Not an American user? DescriptionFollowing an ongoing war with the alien Ur-Quan race, the Alliance has lost.

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