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It is a very nice game that allows you to take your time building an empire of several dozens of planets. An economic, cultural and diplomatic side that can be interesting for any player who is not a fan of the fight. But for me the big point comes from the community and especially "modders", I really advice this game to all those who love fighting space!
 
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Who is he?
Author with bigass selection of published mostly SF books? :p
Chris Nutall, a British scifi/fantasy author whose peculiarity is that he posts all his new books on SB freely while writing them, for beta-reading and suggestions, then removes them to put them on sale. I find the Ark Royal series the most interesting, because beyond the Harrington/Wing Commander space opera feeling, he built up a fascinating world and treats it in a good way. Imagine a world where the nationalists won, where people like Farage, Le Pen, Trump and such all got their way, because they were proven right. A century of 'Troubles' led to ethnostates becoming the norm once again and immigration ending completely, even between Western States. The world is akin to Victoria II in space, where the Great Powers are equal and explicitely above all other 'civilized nations', while a lot of countries collapsed during the 'Troubles'.

But the interesting thing is that... he doesn't shows such a world as an utopia or a distopia. Some things are fucked up, and recognized in-universe as such, like a Royal Navy captain who faced tons of social - but not legal - discrimination since her youth for being black, even though her family has been British since like the 19th century. But it's not the caricatural distopia either, it's kinda working, and neither people nor nations claim to be perfect.

The glimpses of this oh so NOT united Earth, where a First Contact War just gets the Great Powers to make a temporary alliance before going back to the Great Game, are IMO fascinating because of this: their treatment is factual rather than politicized with our modern viewpoint, whatever said viewpoint is. It is a world that feels wrong, but not one that is a caricature. Just for this, it's a good read, as it avoids the pitfall in which fall so many other authors.
 
So, Epic Games has been giving away a free game every two weeks. Last time it was Subnautica, this time it's Super Meat Boy, and next time it will be What Remains of Edith Finch (which is a good story)
 

Get the content pack while you can if you don't have it.
 

Free till 7 AM on March 2nd.
 
So supposedly there may be malware issues with this game. Not sure if that's true or not.
 
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