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Go to Sirius A and speak with the Yim on Sirius Prime, the Urlon biosphere around Sirius III and the Kzanti pirates you like.-Side with either the Yim and Urlons or the Kzanti. For destroying the two Kzanti ships you can get 1000 RU from the Urlons and another 1000 RU from the Yim. Just be sure not to tell the Urlons about the bounty from the Yim.
Further Reading(To very briefly recap, Stardock and Ford & Reiche were at legal odds over who owns the copyrights and trademarks for the Star Control series of games from the 1990s. To give any more details would require a massive amount of explanation and discussion—which we already wrote a couple of years ago with.
If you aren't familiar with the disagreement—or if you want to refresh your memory—that piece will give you a good, solid grounding on the mess that got us to now.)The settlement's details are public, and Ford & Reiche have a blog post on their site. / Artist's impression of Brad Wardell's beekeeping instructional video. The mead must flowContinued Reiche: 'I think it also is going to come as very unexpected to the fans, although ultimately I very much hope that it brings them back together. Because it was painful to see people who fundamentally both like something we worked on get mad at each other and stay mad at each other.
It's not necessarily going to be what fans expect, because it's a 'more than the sum of its parts' solution.' Wardell was effusive in his praise and excitement about the settlement, as were Ford & Reiche—two parties coming to a simple agreement (with appropriate legal backing) feels like an unprecedented development in the litigious environment of game development. Stardock's Origins title will continue to be sold, and Stardock can produce DLCs and sequels as it likes, so long as those future expansions don't nudge into 'old' Star Control territory with respect to aliens and locations and plots (there are a few caveats around the Arilou, but that's the basics of the agreement).Reiche, in turn, volunteered to spend some time writing some creative ideas for the Origins universe, to give it even more of that classic Star Control vibe.
Perhaps most importantly to old-school Star Control fans, Ford & Reiche are free to continue work on their new direct Ur-Quan Masters sequel—although they're going to change its name away from Ghosts of the Precursors to another title that they haven't thought of yet. (Reiche joked that tentative titles so far include Goats of the Precursors, referencing Star Control 3's space cows; Mask Effect, a deep dive into the history of the Utwig; and possibly The Color Purple, where we finally get to find out why the Melnorme ship's bridge turns purple when you begin trading.). And if the two parties realize that either has developed a story idea that intrudes into the others' territory, they've all agreed to simply pick up the phone and work it out.
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Both Wardell and Ford & Reiche are committed to talking through any potential disagreements and reaching a conclusion amicably, without attorneys. Because no one wants to jeopardize the mead supply. The Settlement of Now and ForeverWardell jumped in then to explain that he and Reiche hammered out the details of the entire settlement in a conversation lasting a couple of hours. The collection of attorneys attached to the case then spent several weeks transforming the quick agreement into a formalized settlement offer. He and Reiche and Ford laughed when recounting the frantic attorneys' cries of 'you can't do that!'
And 'you can't give that away!' They again made the point that the lawsuit process was creatively draining and too combative for the kind of compromise they were attempting to reach. Reiche interjected that the resulting settlement contract is the first contract he's ever signed that included specific language about bees and about how many jars of honey must be exchanged per month for flagons of mead.The agreement also includes some stipulation that Ford & Reiche go into a quiet period for a while, which will allow them to focus on Mask Effect their now-untitled UQM sequel and will also allow Origins and its DLC and sequels to have some more spotlight time before Ford & Reiche begin dropping announcements. As part of that, Ford & Reiche have taken down all the lawsuit-related posts on their blog (which is basically all of the posts) and terminated their lawsuit fundraiser; Wardell has reciprocated by removing similar lawsuit-focused posts.' The manner in which we settled is.
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I think uniquely creative and unexpected, and definitely not the direction the lawsuit was going,' said Reiche.For what it's worth, this lifelong Star Control fan couldn't be happier with how this has all worked out.
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