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  • Awesome Music: "Navy Battle", played for the first time when Jim flees a pirate onslaught to reach an Imperial shipyard in chapter 3.
  • Complete Monster: Admiral Evar is a Procyon war chief-turned-ambassador who uses the guise of seeking a peace treaty with the Terran Empire to cover up his intentions to conquer it. Evar uses a fleet he constructs called the Ironclad to lay siege to the Empire and wipe out countless unsuspecting vessels and their crews, ordering the Ironclad ships to suicide bomb themselves if they ever face capture. Simultaneously using a robotic imposter of John Silver to make pirates across the galaxy more bloodthirsty and endanger hundreds of innocents, Evar personally destroys a Terran escort ship out of petty spite against its captain for having beaten him in a battle years ago. Evar ultimately plans to stage a massive attack on Parliament and kill countless people so he can capture or assassinate the Queen, destabilizing the Empire enough for his Procyon Expanse to invade and dominate the fractured Empire.
  • Genius Bonus: The Procyons are raccoon-like Humanoid Aliens. Procyon, as well as being the name of a star, is also the the name of the genus of three species, more commonly known as raccoons.
  • Low-Tier Letdown: The Warsloop is considered the worst ship in the game. It has less firepower than the Procyon Sloop, less armour than the Pirate Sloop (despite the Pirate Sloop being a modified civilian Sloop), and is more expensive and slower than both. To top it off, the Royal Navy's own Torpedo Boat is faster, much better armed and is less than half the price of the Warsloop. For these reasons, the Warsloop is very rarely selected in open skirmishes by players. It goes to the point that some guides advise to suicide those ships into a black hole as the best possible strategy.
  • No Problem with Licensed Games: Despite being a licensed game, Battle at Procyon is considered an excellent naval combat game, with very detailed graphics for a game released in 2002 (not many games of the time had separate models for showing damage). Battle at Procyon is still played today on Steam, where it has a small, but dedicated playerbase and modding community.
  • Padding: The actual battles are absolutely thrilling, but there is something to be said about how agonizingly slow the traversal is between encounters.
  • Spiritual Adaptation: Battle At Procyon is the closest adaptation to Battlefleet Gothic there was fourteen years before its own adaptation. You have the Space Is an Ocean theme, Wooden Ships and Iron Men tone, and a storyline involving stopping a superweapon fielded by enemies (with Procyon's Ironclads taking the place of the Blackstone Fortresses).

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