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4	''[[http://www.saintxi.com Light of Altair]]'' is an Indie Space FourX game made by Saintxi, a London based company.
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6	In it the player leads mankind's expansion into the stars, from building the first colony on the Moon, to traveling to vast voids between the stars, fighting the rival factions in a clash of goals and expansion.
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8	With a simple, straightforward colony management, and self resolving space battles, the game manages to be fun, without a clutter of features or micromanagement.
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10	Featuring a Campaign mode, the game follows the player as it is hired to build colonies for different factions across the Solar System, and eventual escape from the [[OneWorldOrder UEO]], Earth’s united government, and it’s strict and supremacist methods.
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12	A sequel has been since announced and currently undergoes beta-testing, by the name of Moon Base Eridani.
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16	!! Tropes:
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18	* AlienSky: Most planets have either nearby sibling planets, several moons, or are in orbit around a Gas Giant.
19	* ApocalypseHow: Continental. The back story tells how the world started to get worse, and then Europe is hammered into radioactive dust.
20	* AsteroidMiners: One of the buildings enables to mine orbiting moonlets.
21	* AsteroidThicket: While not impacting on space travel, any planet located inside an asteroid belt will give the impression that this is occurring.
22	* ArbitraryWeaponRange: Straight, all weapons have a max range, including lasers and missiles.
23	* BabyPlanet: The smaller planets and asteroids looks small enough to walk around, even considering the lack of scale of the game.
24	* CoolStarship – The Genesis and the Exodus deserve special mention.
25	* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Averted and placed straight, while planets are clearly visible from one another, travel time takes months of gametime. Even with best thrusters.
26	* DeflectorShields: A researchable Armor Choice against lasers.
27	* KillSat: What China deploys to force the USA into accepting a World Government.
28	* OneWorldOrder: The United Earth Order.
29	* OurWormholesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Many star Systems have one, but you are not using it until you stabilize it]].
30	* SceneryPorn:
31	** The game has gorgeous skyboxes in every star system.
32	** [[spoiler: It IS a secret goal of the first mission to look around, zooming to galactic view and back.]]
33	* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale
34	* SpaceClothes: Mostly Elize’s uniform.
35	* SpaceIsNoisy: In battles.
36	* SpaceStation: Any planet with a city can have one.
37	* StandardSciFiFleet: A simplified one.

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