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From: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge)
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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll # (Infinity - 6): Bring It Back!
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:54:49 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>	In this age of sequels, reboots and remakes, what 
>	forgotten intellectual property would you like to 
>	see revived?

Alien Legacy.  It's an MS-DOS game from 1994 where you're the leader
of a colony ship sent from Earth to a distant solar system.  You end
arriving after a second colony ship that was sent after you, but was
slightly faster than your ship.  However the thriving colonies that
second ship should have had up and running are nowhere to be found.
Instead you're back to the original plan of setting up new colonies from
scratch while also having to solve the mystery of what happened to the
colonists who arrived befor you.

There's plenty of space colony simulators out there, but none that I know
of have you colonizing an entire solar system with multiple colonies.
In Alien Legacy, you're encouraged to set up multiple colonies to
take advantage of differing planets' advantages in producing food, ore
and energy.  The planets orbit the sun the way you'd expect them to,
and this mean travel times between planets can vary widely.

It's similar in feel to Starflight and Star Control 2 where you're
exploring an unforgiving and mysterious universe, but you're limited to
a single solar system and with much different mechanics.

I'm not looking for an Alien Legacy 2 or an Alien Legacy HD Remake, but
just a space colony game where you can set up multiple colonies across
an at least somewhat realistic solar system, and have a good reason for
doing so.

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