Starpoint Gemini Warlords is a hybrid space simulation, real-time strategy, and role-playing game developed by Little Green Men Games and released in 2017 for PC and Xbox One. Players take direct control of a spacecraft while simultaneously managing war fleets across a large star system populated by more than 60 factions. Combat ranges from one-on-one skirmishes to large-scale fleet engagements in planetary orbit, with enemy forces occasionally bolstered by warmasters who can shift the tide of battle. Outside of direct combat, players construct and upgrade a headquarters station, research new technologies, build infrastructure across captured territory, and expand a gate network to accelerate fleet movement. A campaign mode follows a group of exiles settled on the fringe world of Phaeneros, while five additional free-roam scenarios offer alternative starting conditions. Ships — drawn from a roster of nearly 90 vessels ranging from gunships to carriers — can be extensively customized with weapons and enhancements. Three character classes, a hybrid option, procedurally generated missions, and diplomatic and trade mechanics round out the experience.
The A’Shriari devastated the solar system, central territory of the Empire. In that whole chaos, the Starpoint to Gemini was reopened. First the remnants of the once glorious Empire came into Gemini, but the all-out war that soon followed decimated the faction, and caused the Empire to perish, once and for all. What was left were small pockets of Imperial loyalists, too weak to have any impact on the global Gemini politics. The second wave of exiles changed that. In the months following the last war thousands of humans from the Solar system fled to Gemini, seeking refuge from the A’Shriari aliens. They were not greeted with joy. Instead they were sent to a barely habitable planet in the outer Gemini region called Phaehana. There they built for themselves at least some sort of a meager existence. They call themselves the Solari Concord, casting away any connection to the hated empire, but at the same time honoring their Earthly heritage. Thousands more joined them on the planet of Phaeneros. It was time to think ahead and carve a place for themselves among the twin suns of Gemini.
