You are the owner of a starship, flying out into the galactic expanse to make your fortune, gather prestige and make scientific discoveries! Hire a captain and crew, warp across the sectors revealing them as you go! Exploring each Quadrant to gather resources, claim them as your own, establish colonies, and gain advantages. This is a science fiction game of mission solving, victory point gathering, with lightweight 3X elements. Explore, Expand, Exploit, but without Exterminate. (No violence please) —description from the designer