![]() ![]() ![]() Word of God reveals this was the trope for United Earth of Override, but things have been formalizing into something more similar to The Federation in the time since the Voinian invasion was beaten back, at least regarding interstellar matters (the colonies, foreign policy, the United Earth Navy).The Alliance: A rebellion against their respective “empires” in both the original and Nova (and, in the last case, also the anti-Bureau alliance the Rebellion makes with the Polaris and the Heraan House in almost all the storylines.Breaker: As one forum commenter put it, "the AI doesn't use any techniques more advanced than 'charge', 'charge in a group', or 'fire missiles then charge'." This means that the player can always get more out of their ship than the AI can, and three techniques in particular for abusing the AI have become so well-known they've acquired names (see Attack Pattern Alpha, below). Earth is an Insignificant Little Blue Planet. ![]() Humanity exists, but we're still using Soyuz. The knup-knup are a sentient race under observation that has only gotten to basic tool use, but no missions involve them at all. The Krypt are derived from the former Vell-os ruling council, making them a human offshoot instead of true aliens. They only have any role in the Polaris storyline, and a small one at that. In addition to the mysterious Those Who Came Before Nova has the Wraith north of Polaris space.There's still one last alien cruiser floating around out there, though. Classic had aliens in the backstory, but humanity wiped them out after they tried to do the same to us.That combined with Zerg Rush, below, makes combat turn out like jousting. 2-D Space: That's how the game plays out, although Nova attempts to give 3-D graphic effects to a 2-D platform.Several Spiritual Successor games have been produced by fans of the original, including: ![]()
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