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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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