What is Starbound II?

After the succesful release of Starbound in 1994, we received numerous suggestions for how to expand it. The result, we added them all! After six years of blood sweat and tears, we believe Starbound II to be the most comprehensive strategy game ever made. In our quest to make Starbound II all things to all people, each feature can be turned on or off allowing complete tailoring of your playing experience. Try it, you'll like it!

Starbound II is available in two versions, the direct download version and the CD version. The game play is identical, however the CD version contains superior graphics, including hundreds of quick-time movies.

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Prologue

Caged by the speed of light, struggling to contain famine, pollution, and inter-species war, scientists and politicians alike struggled with inadequate solutions to your people's problems, knowing societal implosion was imminent. One giant flash, a brilliant purple haze sweeping across galaxy after galaxy, changed that forever. The flash unlocked the solution to breaking the speed of light, for those who knew where to look. Based on a macroscopic application of basic quantum mechanics, your race uncovered the secret of the leap drive. Finally, your cage had been shattered, and your race was free to make its home amongst the stars.

Despite the protests of a vocal minority, defense spending was slashed to begin aggressively funding colonization efforts. With burgeoning access to the almost unlimited resources of space, many predicted the end of poverty, hunger, and war.

They were wrong.

Your race was not the only one to uncover the secret of the leap drive that fateful day. Almost twenty years after colonization of the nearest galaxy was initiated, your entire space presence was slaughtered. Only luck and fate saved your home world from destruction. After the carnage, traces of several distinct types of leap signatures were detected. This, combined with bits of wreckage found at the nearest colony, hints that at least two, possible more races were involved in the fighting, at least one clearly bent on the annihilation of your species. Your industry prepares for war. Your children train for combat. Your soldiers ready themselves for death. You have been chosen to lead what is left of your race back into space to confront the unknown evil that exterminated your defenseless colonies. As your people scream for war, you know that you must tread carefully. With your limited resources, you cannot afford to fight on multiple fronts. Maybe, just maybe, one of the new races will be an ally against the unknown enemy. Maybe, just maybe, your race will survive.

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Features

Planetary Development

• Terraform the surface of new planets. Convert the atmosphere to your liking, and then send in the colonists.
• Build planetary structures to effect issues such as planetary defense, research, manufacturing capability, population growth, happiness, and pollution.
• Develop technology in six different categories, Weapons, Shields, Detection, Movement, Ship Production, and Manufacturing Efficiency.

Ship construction and deployment

• Choose from among multiple ship types, each with a different array of weapons, technology, and storage capacity.
• Design new ship classes to meet your specific needs.
• Choose real-time or calculated combat between opposing fleets.

Planetary Combat

• Land invasion forces on a planet while your opponent deploys defensive troops to defend.
• Choose real-time or calculated combat between the invading and defending forces.
• Target structures or troops for orbital bombardment.

Trade and Diplomacy

• Form and maintain alliances and treaties with alien races.
• Exchange information and trade goods with alien races.
• Influence populations with propaganda, gather information and sabotage crucial targets with a network of spies, sow the seeds of civil unrest, and watch opponent empires crumble under their own weight.

 - (PsiScape Software)

Download Starbound II for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver