Out of Pod Experience

Seldon Crisis is a sandbox MMO that allows you to freely travel the galaxy without stargates dictating your movement. You will start your journey with a small fighter craft and some money, starting to work your way towards bigger ships, wealth and influence over other players. It is completely up to you how you will achieve this: Through diplomacy, intelligence, military strength or economical power. Have an impact on thousands of other players in a seamless single shard universe. Write your own story, forge a great empire or cause the next Seldon Crisis.

The game is completely player driven. The economy, politics and even the infrastructure is in the hand of the the users. You are unbound from preset paths and there is no linear progression the player has to go through. You can earn money and increase your character level by crafting,and trading goods between the many sectors of the galaxy and its stations, by hunting pirates and collecting their loot and bounty or by fighing other players for their equipment and cargo.

There will be a huge variety of missions, such as combat, escort, courier and exploration. Of course you can also engage in a combination of those. There are minor factions in each sector, either hostile, friendly or neutral, offering work to adventourus captains. You can also explore the depths of space, where hidden missions and unexplored territories await. The galaxy is a vast and beautiful place. And space is not empty: There are thousands of star systems, planets, moons, nebulas, wormholes and asteroid fields waiting to be explored and exploited. Each sector of the universe offers a unique variety of resources and procedurally generated content.

Chaos Interactive has sprung out of CCP and EVE Online. Some of the team used to work for the Icelandic developer, while the vast majority of them are EVE veterans. The team says that the venerable sandbox MMO has had an impact on their vision of what Seldon Crisis could be. Besides the parallels between the settings, there’s also the open-endedness and player-driven universe, which EVE is famous for and Seldon Crisis is looking to add to.

So, is this a forbidden topic?

And they have Klingon ships, and they have what looks like Twiki and Dr. Theopolis in a jet-pack... It's OK if you steal from everyone equally (then it is homage).

Every space game has to have some version of the Bird of Prey, and a Battlestar, naturally. Enterprise is optional, as is the space chicken from Babylon 5. The Starship Troopers cruiser is also required.

Interesting how many of these games are popping up:
- Limit Theory: http://ltheory.com/index.html
- Star Citizen: (I'm kicking myself for funding that instead of...)
- Elite: Dangerous
- Infinity - Battlescape: https://inovaestudios.com/Battlescape
- Starpoint Gemini 2
- Kinetic Void: http://badlandstudio.com/kinetic-void/ (available on Steam as early access... playable)

I'm liking the trend, but the only one that seems on track is Elite: Dangerous.

Lor'tmak = condor

499EF = bantam

star's end = tengu

Hari Seldon = cane

Dors Venabli = Machariel

wow those ship models are borderline infringement.

Where is the mule?