Dreadnought “The Obsidian Crucible”

It looks obsidian. Shining far away, the Obsidian Crucible actually projects darkness which cancels out E&M rays even on the visual spectrum. The sparkling shine comes from a captured hero’s ship of light inside it cannot kill, so it obscures it with darkness and holds the hero in captivity for God knows how long.

The Obsidian Crucible doesn’t cast a shadow… A shadow needs light.

Haunting.

It shines like obsidian… but within, it cages what it cannot destroy.

From afar, it appears like polished obsidian, eerily reflective—starfield and nebulae bend around it.
At its core, if you look closely (or zoom in during a cinematic), you can faintly make out a blazing, angelic white ship—the Ship of Light—ensnared in swirling bands of void-stuff.
Its light is muted, barely able to pierce the anti-photon shell that entombs it.

On occasion, the light pulses from within as the imprisoned ship struggles—causing a temporal flicker or an unexplained, ghostly flare of hope during battle.

The captured Lumina Ascendant is rumored to be still alive and destroying The Obsidian Crucible could bring the order and peace to the galaxy from one of the last known champions of light. The Dreadnought Class Obsidian Crucible has not yet been bested… And those who do live to tale the tale explain how all visible colors are lost as you near, then the black and white… dims to darker shades of night then the void noise begins.

You descend into the shadowfield. Eyes and instruments scream blindness. The black star gleams in silence… and then you see it: a fractured brilliance, barely pulsing. A soul not yet gone, held in chains of night. And you wonder… can light be caged forever?

One of the 32 Dreadnought Class Capital ships in Starfighter General.

2) Networking that pushes the envelope where no networking has gone before. People laugh at this like it is impossible to innovate, but I marketed it to Midway in 2003, and they laughed too. Meanwhile it was working in house as a Tekken style(3d fighter) MMO with part of what today is known as rollback code. Midway's manager was mocking what is today's standard thinking rollback and such was impossible. Infinite action players same zone, limit only by video card and other hardware, networking ain't a limiting thing anymore.

4) First MMO designed for late game. Everyone enjoys mmos until power capped and then get bored.
There is no power cap to begin with(just a log log logarithmic progression), but there are many many many other end game design elements to make it so want to keep playing end game! The grind is there, but better and more fun things are around too! You can build up a super big fleet and it get destroyed to pieces and you start over again. You have a power floor level that you can't go below so you're always building permanent power, but temporary spikes of power surges and galactic dominance for fleeting moments give a rush. The larger the fleet, the larger the fleeting moment.

8) PVP bounty system. Everyone can PVP at all times. Stakes are low if your ship explodes. If you get attacked without declaring aggressive mode or an opponent to duel, the aggressor gets a bounty on their head in accordance with the damage dealt to you. If this bounty gets high enough, and they get caught, they will be put in jail. When they log on for the next few hours or days, their character can play only in jail, and visitors come see him and such. Enjoy roleplaying being a prison inmate, or just use a different crew member on your account. Developing many crew members is a thing for when you fly capital ships.

10) Omnipotent roleplay: Earn your right into a a movie anime by great roleplay! Live game masters in about 6-12 months after the content updates roll through. We bias people with Founder's RP tokens some and good manner role players who stay in character(we have chat logs and even game logs). This promotes good role play even when not live GMing. Who doesn't want to bring their friends to a movie and surprise em with their own character in it? So stay in character for a better game! https://www.starfightergeneral.com/live-role-play/

Punky-Pulpy action, Levels, stats, skills, talents, items, fleet amassing, and great apocalyptic space plots, trippy Lewis Carrol level Mad Hatter humor along the way. It's really weird to see how this synergizes from a game design standpoint. Players naturally want to level up and power up... That's the twink min maxer in all of us. So when humor, plots, intrigue, or NPCs getting your blood boiling to action vs them happens, you get stoked, rewarded, happy and tossed off your axis. Then when resolved, you look back and get serious about powering up. The core of a RPG gamer is always powering up, it is something we can't get rid of, but the core of a game designer is to get you out of a spreadsheet mindset temporarily... And then you appreciate both more. So tacky humor, along serious pulp action and serious leveling up game mechanics... It is like a symphony of fun.

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