Open Realm of Stars

Open Realm of Stars is an open source 4X strategy game. Developed
using Java. The game requires at minimum Swing and Java 7 to run.

Explore the galaxy

Move your fleet in a randomly generated galaxy. Encounter other species, and find new planets to colonize. Explore mysterious space anomalies.

Manage your own planets

Manage your planets gain access to better buildings and ships. Population management is key to acquiring more culture, research, metal and production.

Have diplomacy with other space faring races

Make friends and enemies while traveling to outer realms. Form trade alliances, and defensive pacts to establish technology trade with other races. Make good diplomatic relations all other realms and win voting for ruler of the galaxy.

Deep space combat

Fight enemies with customizable ship designs. Ship components have their own hit points and energy requirements to use them. Components will be rendered useless if hitpoints are depleted or energy requirements are not met. This makes space battles dynamic. A lucky shot by allied ship to an enemies fusion reactor will make them immobile on the battlefield. Fleets with advanced technologies have significant advantages, however luck or number of ships can sway the battle in your favor.

Conquering the planets

Conquer enemy planets. Drop bombs to clear out enemy troops, then deploy your own ground troops to seize control.

Leaders

Each realm can have unique characters called leaders. These leaders can act as governors, fleet commanders and rulers. Each of the leader will gain perks which give bonus(negative or positive) on task they are performing. Leaders have limited life span and they will die for old age, but new ones can be replace the old one. Some rulers can have heirs which will eventually replace parents. These leaders can have also internal power struggles in certain government types.

The history

After a game players are given a quick overview of major galactic events and how other realms did during the game. There will be also history events of all major events that leaders did during their time in the game.

Features

• Randomized galaxy with three different starting placements
• 10 different space races to play
• 15 different government types to play
• Any realm can start as ancient realm even human player
• Random events
• Planetary events
• Space anomalies
• Space pirates
• Privateering, trade fleets are actual ships which can be privateered
• Diplomatic relations between realms (War, Peace, Trade war, Trade Alliance, Defensive Pact and Alliance)
• AI remembers how it has been treated and will treat others accordingly
• Galactic Olympics to influence to other realms
• Technology can be traded in diplomatic trades
• If two realms are in alliance they won the game together.
• Possibility to fake military power in the galactic news (Can be lower or higher)
• Espionage ships and espionage missions with leaders
• Leaders acting as rulers, governors and commanders
• 6 Different technology branches each with 10 levels
• Each new technology will give either new ship component, ship hull or planetary improvement.
• All ships are designed based on currently available technology
• AI does not cheat and each AI is trying to make their own realm as strong as possible
• Turn based space combat
• Planets can conquered with troops and bombs