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The ultimate goal with Origins is to вЂњbring back the open universe space adventure/exploration genre.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s a tall order, and it is not exactly a unique goal. The upshot of all of this is that Origins will tell a story of a new race inhabiting the same multiverse as the original Star Control games. There is another reason, too: the story is 25 years old, and new players are not typically going to be well versed in it. Any changes they make would potentially cause rifts in any future timelines.

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There is a reason for this reticence on the subject of using the existing lore: while they were able to purchase a license to use the aliens and lore of the initial versions, they do not own the rights to those properties. I say вЂњreimaginingвЂќ becauseВ Stardock has distinctly stated that they do not intend to just rebuild the existing Star Control world. Stardock Entertainment bought the IP and publishing rights for the original Star Control trilogy from Atari a few years ago and has begun a complete reimagining of the Star Control franchise. After the 1996 release of Star Control 3, there was an abortive effort to bring out Star Control 4, but it never seemed to get off the ground. This resulted in a game that had to tiptoe around the canonical lore of the first two iterations. With Star Control 3, Accolade outsourced the development of the game and distanced themselves from the original dev team. It also had a two-player mode that concentrated solely on the combat aspects. With the addition of a story-driven exploration/adventure game that included diplomacy and resource gathering, players had a great deal more to concentrate on than just the melee battles of the first version. Version 2 was also published by Accolade, and it went far beyond the battle scenarios provided in the original. There were at least two sequels to Star Control, imaginatively named Star Control 2 and Star Control 3. Battles tended to be close-up affairs with the two players orbiting around each other like reluctant boxers in a ring, firing weapons at each other until the opponentвЂ™s ship was depleted of crew. Fleets were comprised of seven ships, each with unique weaponry and other capabilities. Well, more accurately, it was fleet-to-fleet combat, albeit one ship at a time. There wasnвЂ™t much to it by the standards of today-no in-depth story to be told, no planetary systems to be explored, no economics or commerce to support trade routes, nothing but ship-to-ship combat.

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The original Star Control was published back in the early days of the 1990s, an era when the PC was just starting to attract game developers and the venerable Commodore 64 was fading into gaming history.

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The Star Control series has a long and storied history.

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