The user interface changes its styling depending on the race you've chosen and your adviser voices change with respect to the races established behavior. From here the player can see which ships are available to deploy in a system, trade routes, spatial anomalies, star types and all the information needed to govern your empire. Gameplay In the beginning, there was SolĪt the start of each game the player is presented with a zoomed in view of the galaxy, this is enough to see the home and neighboring systems. The game was published by 4x veteran Microprose. The game starts with each race owning a handful of colonies and ships with which the player must use to colonize / conquer the rest of the galaxy in a turn based scenario. You can pick from 1 of 5 empires established in the television series, you can choose the tech level of each race, the shape of the galaxy, how many minor races and events can possibly occur.