Starlancer

Starlancer was a military space sim made by Chris Roberts in collaboration with his brother Erin Roberts.

It was made by Warthog Games and Digital Anvil which Chris Roberts co founded after having left Origin Systems in 1997.

it told the story of a war in this solar system between familiar Earth nations.

The team working on Starlancer was the same team that had been working on Privateer 2 at Digital Anvil, and afterwards started Warthog Games. The core of that team moved on to become Traveler's Tales Fusion, and has since been brought into the Cloud Imperium Games family to work on Squadron 42.

The game introduced a video broadcast and a virtual newsletter informing the player about what's going on in the war, helping to see the bigger picture.

There was a Dreamcast version released.

Martin Galway worked on the speech and sound effects.

Freelancer is the sequel to Starlancer, taking place some 800 years later.