Tropes used in X (video game) include: Tropes 0-C Not to be confused with X 1999, X the Nintendo tank game with the same name, or the punk band X. X3: Terran Conflict has its own wiki here. To date, only Dominion, Rogue, and Farnham's Legend have been translated into English. Last but not least, Egosoft has released a number of novels set in the X-Universe. Named after the ship that is the focus of X: Rebirth, Albion adds a Stock Exchange to the game, as well as progressing the story to the massive interstellar war that was brewing by the end of X3: Terran Conflict. To the fanbase's rather abrupt surprise, they then announced a new "expandalone" game using the X3: Terran Conflict engine, Albion Prelude, mere days before its surprise release date. Recently Egosoft announced a revamp of the series via the next main series game, X: Rebirth, due out in 2012. The only reason you can't destroy everything is because the game engine tries to keep the economy balanced and will slowly recreate destroyed stations if need be. It takes a hell of a lot of military resources, and it'll probably break the economy unless you supply it with that race's goods yourself, but nobody's actively stopping you from doing it. You can also do things that you're not really meant to do, such as almost completely wiping out a race from the universe. You can just play through the plot, content to stay in your puny little fighter and not straying much farther than your starting sector, or you can create a universe-spanning trading empire, all but controlling the economy and with enough military power to squash all who dare oppose you. In Albion Prelude, the cold war goes hot with the destruction of Earth's orbital defense station. Terran Conflict reunites the long lost Aldrin colony with Earth, destroys the Kha'ak Hive Queen, and sees a rise in tensions between the Argon and the Terrans. The Terrans establish tentative relations with the other races, but try to remain isolated-hence the game being named Reunion. The entire Terran Fleet, completely forgotten by the rest of the universe, streams out of the jump gate and curb stomps the Kha'ak. The Paranid activate their jump gate in Heretic's End-which links to Earth, right as the Kha'ak are jumping into the sector to try and destroy the Paranid jump gate. After the Kha'ak planet killer is destroyed, a Precursor shows up and begins secretly aiding the Paranid in building a jump gate. A few decades later in The Threat, the Kha'ak show up and their first act in the universe is to destroy everything in the sector President's End and nearly destroying the planet in Omicron Lyrae. The Earth pilot, Kyle Brennan, helped prevent the Xenon from blowing up a planet with their M0 Planet Killer in the first game, Beyond The Frontier. However, the Jump Drive locks onto the X-Universe and promptly breaks down, stranding the pilot (and protagonist) in the X-Universe and indebted to the Teladi, who helped repair his ship. The Terrans, completely isolated from the X-Universe, build a ship with the first Jump Drive, to try and reach Alpha Centauri. The Argon begin exploring the X-Universe, and discover the peaceful Boron, the Paranid, the Split, and the Teladi. They name themselves the "Argon" after R. Gunne crash lands his frigate on Sonra-4, an earth-like world, and begins restarting civilization with his crew. Nathan R.Gunne, a Terran commander, lured the Terraformers past Earth's jump gate into the X-Universe, then destroyed the jump gate behind him to isolate the Terraformers (now dubbed the Xenon) and to save Earth. Not long after, the Terraformers show up in force, and begin terraforming everything in sight. About a hundred years later, after the mission was complete, Earth sent out a command for the Terraformers to self-destruct. Earth built a fleet of self-replicating and self-evolving Terraformer ships to make the worlds habitable for humanity. All the planets discovered were totally absent of intelligent life. However, in a midflight test, the Earth jump gate locked onto a random gate not built by humans - they had discovered the X-Universe gate system. Long before the events of the games, Earth built the first jump gate and launched it towards Alpha Centauri. X: Rebirth (2012) reboot of the series (not yet released).X3: Albion Prelude (2011) expansion pack for Terran Conflict.X: Tension, (2000, expansion for X: BTF).A Wide Open Sandbox space combat/trading simulator series by German developer Egosoft.
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