) is a 4X turn-based strategy game set in space, designed by Steve Barcia and Ken Burd, and developed by Simtex , who developed its predecessor. The PC version was published by MicroProse in 1996 , and the Apple Macintosh version a year later by MacSoft , in partnership with MicroProse. Despite its age, the game has retained a large fan base, and is still played online.This is the soundtrack for the game, composed by Laura Barratt, and extracted directly from the game files as 22khz .wav, then re-encoded to FLAC for upload.