Deepest Blue

It's 2121, the Seiddab war a distant memory.  At lone pioneer ship encounters a strange automated ship while prospecting for precious resource.  The Seiddab are back. Scans reveal the truth hidden for 100 years. The Seiddab are not an alien race but the result of an early automated attempt  to colonise deep space. Originally programmed to explore space, mine resource  and build bases for human occupation the AI has mutated and sees humans as competitors for vital resource. It's war across multiple star systems connected by warp  paths.

The player can fly scouts, fighters, freighters, miners or warships ranging from destroyers to space carriers, or let their own pilots undertake missions. These range from deploying bases or munitions, pioneering, mining, freight or military actions. The players ships earn credits to build more ships. The player can take over control of any of their owned ships at any time. Players can modify or design their own ships.  

The player plays alongside npc ships that can act cooperatively or alone. The player can send their ships out on solo missions, group them in a squad or join with AI ships. Squads can join together to form fleets. The fragile space infrastructure needs to be protected against the relentless onslaught of the Seiddab.

The game plays out across multiple star systems each with a network of sectors joined by warp paths.  A create game feature is included to enable a random scenario with the required number of systems, factions and development.  Other featured include save/resume game, and soon mutli player play over a local or remote network.

The author Steve Turner is a veteran games developer known for a string of successful games on the Spectrum, C64, Atari ST, Amiga PC and Playstation with his company Graftgold. This game has been developed entirely by Steve Turner  rather than a development team.