you arrive some time after the other colony ship,
and when you get there, you don't see a 'Welcome'
mat..

``You need to establish colonies (which run with a
very simple sort of Sim-city sim), try and find out
what happened to the other colonists by exploring,
and research new and interesting things to help you
to do these two things. Along the way, [spoilers
deleted] and generally wander around the planetary
system. BTW, just watching the planets & satellites
go around the sun in the observatory is fun, and you
actually need to plan trips for closest approach, a
nice touch.

``Anyway, I won it in about 50 hours of game play. I
paid $48 or so, and I feel I got maybe $65 in fun
from it, so it was a good deal for me.''

And Michael Lewchuk responded to Tom's description
with:

``You must research tech to stay one step ahead of
total disaster. There are many and various ways to
end the game, most of them unpleasant. Researching
ways to avoid disaster is very beneficial.
Researching them before you come upon the disaster
is even more beneficial.

``You build colonies out of 4 types of buildings:
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