> Stars!! Finally another living human who has heard of it.

There's dozens of us, dozens!

I had a game key for a while and then lost it. So any time I dust it off to play it's the shareware version. The shareware version has pretty high limits so you can just get to "unmanageable endgame".

One of my pet peeves, especially later in the game, is there's no way to upgrade fleets. So if you've got a long lived fleet it'll be way below your current tech level. Woe follows if you forgot it was the only defense for some far flung yet important planet.