Game Play -
 
- 1-10 Players - human or computer
- 256 color graphics
- Supports higher resolutions such as 800x600 and 1024x768
- Multi-player support for play by email across all mediums
Game Setup -
    
- Completely customizable game setup
- Custom races with unique racial advantages
- Player definable winning conditions
- Detailed score system to rank players against each other
Technology -
     
- 55 different tech areas with more than 10 tech levels each
- Over 250 different components to be used on ships
Worlds -
     
- Thousands of different worlds to explore and colonize
- Completely random galaxy creation for each game. Have up to 100 solar systems with 15 planets each!
- Colonize each planet and build different facilities to help your empire
- External Events such as rebellions, disasters, and more!
Combat -
 
- Detailed space combat - either strategic or tactical
- A Combat Simulator where you can try out new designs before buying them
Interface
- Simple Windows 95 interface makes learning easy
- Extensive on-line help with beginners tutorial
- Not just your simple point-to-point space game
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Ships -
     
- Create your own ship designs - as many as you want
- Draw your own ship pictures and empire icon
- Get new ship pictures created by other players in our ship styles library!
- Retrofit ships to use the latest weapons
- Detailed orders can be given to each ship which removes the montony of moving each individual unit.
- 18 different ship sizes
Units -
  
- Fighters which can launch from bases, carriers, or planets
- Troops which can be landed on a planet and take it over
- Mine fields which can destroy entire fleets
Operations -
 
- Intelligence operations such as espionage and sabotage
- Detailed politics with different relations offering their own advantages
Computer Opponents
- Challenging computer opponents(AIs) with unique personalities
- Over 10 different AI personality types to interact and ally/combat with
- Each AI uses a unique strategy and weapons specialization
- AIs that don't cheat!
- AI Ministers which you can set to run portions of your empire
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