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Fantastic game. This is a game that gives you control over many characters in the Star Wars universe, both movies and expanded universe. No one is safe from your excellence or ineptitude. The characters in this game can killed, permanently, or incapacitated or they can excell in several different areas of tasks that you can put before them. If you send a character on a diplomacy mission and this is successful that characters diplomacy skill will increase. You start off with a handful of characters and then you take the time to recruit others to your cause. Some characters may specialise in certain skills, Ackbar is fantastic leader and ship researcher, Lando is good in several areas, command, espionage, combat. You can even discover force sensitive characters that you can train to be jedi over time. This is a game where your imagination can really help immerse you in the universe. In this RTS you can speed up the clock or slow it down when you need to take the time to implement many commands. In this game you have to manage constructions yards for equipment, training facilities for troop recruitment and ship yards for space ships. All resource management can be managed by you if you wish or you can have help from your droid assistant. Combat can be handled with an autoresolve option or personally. The orders that you issue to your fleets and squadrons are relatively simplistic such as attack capital ships or fighters, approach by left flank or right etc. You also have full 3d control of the battlefield camera so you can view the effectivness of your orders. There is a love/hate relationship with many people for this game which I've never truely understood. This game allowed the player to choose the faction he/wanted and told them to go to town. To be able to use characters on missions without knowing that they would ever return is an exciting concept to me. This game is truely an original hidden gem of a Star Wars game and I recommend it.