Each faction has its own technological tree and exclusive racial features that strongly differentiate their advancement style. You will enjoy the Sword of the Stars experience by playing one of the four races: the Sol Force human upstarts of the space age, the insect swarm of Hivers, the reptilian Tarkas Imperium or the mysterious Liir dolphin-like creatures.

The only part resembling a storyline comes from the rather scarce map descriptions so don?t expect any cutscenes, in-game movies or Star Trek warlike introductions because they aren?t here. Unfortunately, there is next to no story implementation in the game and Kerberos developers managed to reach this performance by having no single player campaign whatsoever. Thus, they came to develop weapons, stronger and faster ships, eventually coming to wield the Sword of the Stars and walk among the four races as rulers, not as slaves. The Tarkas, Liir, more and more races joined the fight for galactic supremacy and humans were forced to adapt, in a universe where weakness means extinction. Later, humans found out they were hit by just a small nesting fleet, only a teaser for the great swarming alien power. Who could have guessed that this shattered the veil of anonymity that for so long protected humans from the rest of the alien races? Without warning, nor demands, the Hivers attacked first, swift and deadly, almost obliterating life on our home planet. The first colonial ship took years to be built, as Nova Maria hosted the greatest minds our planet ever gave, joined in an effort to claim what for generations we thought it was ours. Mankind's early dream of space dominion saw their fulfillment with the discovery of Nod drive propulsion.

Late during the 21st century, humans made a great technological breakthrough which enabled them to escape Einstein?s cage and reach for the stars. In what appears to be a rather old game concept, Sword of the Stars brings us the thrill of building up lasting space empires out of nothing and the inevitable power struggle against enemy alien nations. Lighthouse Interactive launched the game in the US and Canada on August 22, 2006, only to continue with the steadily release in localized versions all over the world during the following months. Kerberos Productions developers bring us Sword of the Stars, an economical strategy and tactical space combat hybrid placed in a Sci-Fi universe where survival of the fittest is the law.

Sword of the stars gameplay