It's an awesome space exploration game. It was years infront of any other games when it came out...somewhere in 2001 i think. Its basically a huge universe of planets ans sytems to explore, and you can do anything, trade, pirate, do missions for good guys, bad guys anything. The graphics were also awesome for that time... The best thing is, the game is still very playable. It also has a huge mod community, that is still active. Theres a RPG mod, which reminds me of Project Reality.