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Battle Thralls: The Trope Namer, these are the races that fight for the Ur-Quan.

They don't damage you though, only throw off your momentum.

Asteroid Thicket: In tandem with every starship battle being centered on a planet, they also all feature asteroids spawning from the edges of the "arena".

The Alliance: The Alliance of Free Stars.

All There in the Manual: The story is never explained in-game.

But Wait! There's More! A Fan Sequel to Star Control II, called Project 6014, is being developed here. In addition, all three Star Control games are available from Good Old Games. Unfortunately, it was made without the involvement of the series' creators, and it was not very well received by the fanbase.Īn excellent - and free - port of Star Control II to modern systems, called The Ur-Quan Masters, is available from this page. Star Control 3 was meant to create a game dynamic that mixed the strategy of the first with the Action Adventure of the second. It also included a Super Melee mode, which allowed you to choose a fleet of up to 14 ships from either game and battle (still one-on-one) against a human or computer-controlled opponent. The game is highly regarded for its engaging story and for the inventiveness and humor of the world-building.

Gameplay follows many RPG tropes, albeit at a different scale: for "character", read "ship" for "party", read "fleet" for "town" or "dungeon", read "planet". The player character travels the galaxy searching for a way to overthrow the Ur-Quan, meeting (and, if conversations went badly, battling) most of the alien races mentioned in the first game, discovering several new ones and sooner or later learning that there are worse things than the enslaving Ur-Quan, and they're about to take an interest in mankind. Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters added a story mode, an RPG/ Action Adventure game akin to Starflight, set twenty years after the Alliance of Free Stars lost the war featured in the first game. The game also included Melee mode, which skipped all the Resource Gathering and territory control stuff, and gave you a team consisting of one ship from each of the races on the side you had picked. The original Star Control was a turn-based strategy game, pitting Earth and the Alliance Of Free Stars against the evil Ur-Quan Hierarchy.

Unlike Space War, there is a range of ships available, each notionally representing a different alien race and possessing a distinct appearance, handling characteristics, and weapons. Star Control is a series of Shoot'Em Up/ Action Adventure games built around space battles modelled on but expanded from Space War.Īs in Space War, a battle in Star Control involves two armed spaceships in a 2D space with a planet in the middle. Attention troper - heed this recorded message! This works page speaks with the voice and authority of the Ur-Quan!