Take missions from planetary governors for cash rewards and honors.
Try a little trading, by buying high, selling low and swiftly going out of business. Travel between solar-systems via your jump drive, exploring. Dominators invade and destroy all life, but we'll get to them a bit later. Other space ships go about their daily business - Pirates, pirating, Traders, trading, Diplomats, diplomatting.
Planets rotate around stars in perpetual motion. You play an eponymous Space Ranger, looking down on a two-dimensional view of the solar system you're currently in. In terms of the structure, it's essentially a more complicated turn-based Pirates set in Space. It's almost as if someone escaped from the Wario Ware design team, snuck off to Russia and performed a putsch at an unwary strategy game developer. This is a game made with absolute, brilliant disregard for the accepted conventions of gaming niches. It's also the sort of game which makes me think that the tongue-in-cheek post-genre label I made up for the Darwinia review was actually onto something. But sober-minded reviewers give the latest merely competent game in a big franchise ninety percent because it exists, so to hell with them. And it's not that it doesn't have enough flaws for a more sober minded reviewer to kick it down a little. Because it might be just because it's precisely aimed at my soft spots - emergent situations, freeform universes, sheer quirkiness, and being constructed by an underdog developer in the middle of nowhere (Vladivostok, apparently). Essentially, the game's amazing, but I had to put myself in quarantine for a week to make sure it's actually something I have to recommend to the world.
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