This is a list of all the known races to inhabit the Star Control Universe, organized according to their amount of interaction in Star Control II. Major Races edit These are the races that you may encounter in The Ur-Quan Masters.
Stardock and the two creators of the original game series this past week agreed to a settlement resolving the legal dispute over ownership of the franchise and its intellectual property.In by, the former adversaries will now collaborate to produce new stories and content for future games and downloadable content for the existing Star Control Origins.Fred Ford and Paul Reiche, who designed Star Control and Star Control 2 for Accolade in 1990 and 1992, had claimed ownership of the copyrights to the sci-fi action and strategy classic, and Stardock claimed ownership of the trademarks. The two had sued each other in late 2017 and early 2018, with Stardock calling Ford and Reiche’s — billed as a direct sequel to Star Control 2 — a trademark violation. In reply, two creators disputed Stardock’s purchase of the franchise from Atari’s bankruptcy in 2013. Ford and Reiche also said that the trademark Stardock claimed was bogus, a duplicate filed by then-owner Infogrames (which later renamed itself Atari) in 2003.But in the agreement announced June 11, the parties came to a resolution that “honestly and truly an amicable settlement.” Reiche said he called Stardock Corporation chief executive Brad Wardell directly (acknowledging Wardell had asked them to do that earlier) and the two worked it out.That’s quite a hatchet-burying for litigation that began on very personal terms, in very confrontational ways. Stardock’s disparaged the two developers’ actual contribution to the series’ creation; Reiche and Ford had used their ownership claim to have the original games, and ultimately to get, shortly returning to Steam. Stardock of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s provisions (commonly understood as a takedown demand to YouTube, Steam or some other purveyor of copyrighted work).The terms of the settlement have not been made public but both sides are free to discuss them.
“We figured out what we wanted in just a couple hours of talking,” Wardell on Star Control: Origins’ official website. “The rest of the time was the lawyers smithing out exact, agonizingly precise verbiage. That took much longer.
Usually these things claim to be amicable but it’s just both sides trying to spin things. In this case, it really was amicable.”So deep was the legal bro-ing out that the settlement even contains “a section in which I’ll be working with Paul on beekeeping,” Wardell said. “He’s going to send me some mead, I’m going to send him some honey.” Wardell has experience with this trade in his spare time.Reiche, for his part, said he’s always wanted to try raising bees to make his own mead. That broached a conversation in which the two realized “we don’t like fighting, but we love creating,” Reiche said. “So can we step way outside the box and settle our dispute through positive, creative actions rather than continuing to beat each other up?”Reiche clarified that “no money changed hands” and that Stardock “will create new games in the Star Control franchise. Paul & Fred will create new games in the Ur-Quan Masters franchise where Ghosts of the Precursors is set.”To differentiate the two, Reiche “volunteered to create a few new alien races for Origins,” Reiche wrote, while “Brad offered to help Fred and Paul with technology.” More to fans interests, “ Star Control, Star Control 2 and will be coming back for sale by Stardock.” The two sides will split the royalties 50/50.More details on the resolution are available from Ford and Reiche, but the settlement does appear to be as comprehensive and good-natured as described. Star Control: Origins, which launched in 2018, is available for PC on Steam and GoG.com.
Wardell said its first expansion, Earth Rising, is coming later this fall, with Stardock and Reiche beginning work on a new Star Control game around that time.
Star Control: The Ur-Quan Masters
Star Control
Mankind is about to be wiped off the face of the galactic map. A savage clutch of alien races called the Ur-Quan Hierarchy has become the 'evil empire' of the 27th century- ruthlessly invading interstellar neighbors. Humanity is next on their list. Your job is to make sure that they don’t succeed. The entire Alliance of Free Stars battlefleet awaits your orders.
Star Control II
Arguably the greatest space adventure ever made for PC, this game is rich with humor and memorable characters. You start in a nearly empty space-ship, but as the game progresses, you can upgrade it with many modules that affect the vessel's attributes. You can discover new stars, meet new alien races, wage wars, and boldly go where no man has gone before you. A truly exceptional exploration game that that has influenced the entire industry. While playing this gem, it's really fun to observe how many of its gameplay features were copied by modern AAA titles.
Star Control: Kessari Quadrant
Star Control 3
Deep in space, somewhere in the Kessari Quadrant, you stumble across a catastrophic realization - the universe is on the brink of destruction. Now you must race to save thousands of worlds and billions of lives from total annihilation. An epic adventure of intergalactic strategy and diplomacy begins.
Taking a slightly different track that diverged from the Star Control 2 formula, it got excellent reviews though some of the hardcore Star Control fans weren't entirely thrilled by the innovations. Journalists, new fans of the series, and hardcore fans alike all agreed on one thing, though: this game's story is great.