Personally, I prefer immersion in a
game, especially when the story is engaging and the characters are
believable. I don’t like seeing some kind of graphical status
indication appear during conversations or events, and I don’t even
like having a way to check on that through a menu or sub-screen of
some type. In my opinion, it is important to maintain the “suspension
of disbelief” just like it is done when watching a movie or TV
show. If you are reminded that you are playing a game with fiddly
menus and onscreen options, I think it pulls you out of the immersion
to a degree and can distract from your full emotional involvement in
the story. As a result, the Star Legation does not have a fancy
onscreen message bar—it is merely a shadowed area so that you can
more easily read the dialogue text. I have also chosen to reduce all
onscreen graphical user interface down to a single icon in the lower
right of the screen. When you click that icon, a menu screen will
appear so you can save, familiarize yourself with other key commands
(such as a quick save key, skip text key, etc.) My main goal is for
you to lose yourself in the story like you would in a book.
As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.
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