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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares 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 Master of Orion and Master of Magic. The PC version was published by MicroProse in 1996, and the Macintosh version a year later by MacSoft, in partnership with MicroProse.
Chi 2 Orionis (Chi 2 Ori / χ 2 Orionis / χ 2 Ori) / k aɪ. t uː ˈ ɒ r aɪ / is a B-type blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion.It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.63 but being quite distant, and heavily extinguished it burns with the greatest absolute visual light magnitude among stars in Orion within the near reaches of the galaxy, 0.9 of a magnitude brighter than Rigel.
The Orion developers, they say, set themselves the task of creating an inexpensive, simple and affordable consumer PC with good graphics capabilities, and they succeeded. In the minimum configuration (without color, with 64 kb RAM), ORION contains only 42 microcircuits, in the standard configuration (128 kb) there are only 59, and expensive or ...
Master of Orion (abbreviated as MoO) is a turn-based, 4X science fiction strategy game in which the player leads one of ten races to dominate the galaxy through a combination of diplomacy and conquest while developing technology, exploring and colonizing star systems. Sometimes described as a scifi-themed spin-off of classic Civilization, the ...
Gameplay. Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars is a turn-based strategy game that lets players take control of one of 10 playable races who can compete or coexist with other AI controlled opponents across vast galaxies. [ 7] Players can also design a custom race. [ 8]: 17. In the game, players manage their empire, colonies, technological ...
Star Trek Starfleet Command II: Empires at War (known in North America as Starfleet Command Volume II: Empires at War) is the sequel to Star Trek: Starfleet Command and the second in the series of real-time space combat games, developed by Taldren, Inc. and published by Interplay. A stand-alone expansion pack was released in June 2001 titled ...
Orion: Prelude is a first-person shooter and online cooperative multiplayer game, developed and published by Spiral Game Studios for Microsoft Windows. In the game, armed players work together to defend generators against dinosaurs. The game was conceived in 1998, by developer David Prassel, and was originally launched as a Half-Life 2 mod ...
Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, [1] and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions behind the craft. [2][3] Early versions of the vehicle were proposed to take off from the ground; later versions were ...