Description Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building simulation that tells the story of man's first expansion into the stars. A fun and challenging mix of colonization and combat set in the near future.
Features:
• Colony building on planets and asteroids throughout a system. • Manage industries and colonists to grow from a tiny landing unit into a towering city.
• Detailed storyline based on a future-history of Earth. Not everyone is an enemy - not everyone can be trusted. Changing alliances and new gameplay twisting events are custom made for each mission. • Rich single player campaign traced across the galaxy. • Play out important plot events from different sides taking on the role of one of 8 different factions. • Rich Simulated Universe: A gritty backstory that ties in closely with a realistic future history of Earth, technologies and developments take place in a coherent near future sci-fi setting.
• Detailed tech-tree with over 30 weapons, buildings, and ship-mods to discover.
• Design ships: Pick a ship schematic and equip weapons, armour and mods to hardpoints. Then command shipyards to build a fleet from the design. • Cinematic camera views of space battles in planet orbit.
