Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Lightspeed Edition

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Lightspeed Edition combines the original game with the Combat & Customization, Diplomatic Diversions, Loot’em Up and Morale Booster updates, plus new features and optimizations. On the edge of Terran space, you reclaim Halcyon 6, a derelict starbase left by a mysterious precursor race, and rebuild it as the New Terran Federation’s base for research, exploration and diplomacy. A mysterious alien force is heading for Earth, and the station offers the Federation its best chance to form alliances, develop technologies and find a way to stop the invasion.

Rebuild the starbase

Using resources salvaged from the station and gathered from nearby star systems, you build facilities to improve production and technological capabilities, or construct ships to extend your control over the territory. Assign crew to facilities to increase their output, or place them aboard ships, where they contribute to combat, missions and events.

Explore and fight

Send fleets to nearby star clusters to confront emerging threats, complete missions for alien factions or secure bonus resources. Tactical ship and ground battles resolve hostile events, help establish a foothold in the sector and bring you closer to defeating the enemy mothership.

Story events draw on factors such as the rooms you have built, alien diplomacy scores and officer traits or skills. They can offer multiple choices and lead to combat, timed bonuses or penalties, changes to officer attributes, or other in-game events.

Lightspeed changes

The campaign is streamlined for faster progression and a tighter, action- and adventure-focused experience that takes about 12 hours, depending on your play style and pace. Progression is also faster across the economy, starbase, resources and officer levelling.

Officer progression adds six subclasses, three Prestige classes, a new skill tree and over 20 new Prestige and Epic powers. A new ship loadout and configuration screen lets you customize and save ship loadouts before combat. Vice Admiral is a new difficulty mode that slightly increases difficulty across the game.

Combat changes include over 25 new alien faction space combat abilities, more combos for players and enemies, increased faction weaknesses and resistances, and other balance adjustments. The interface has been overhauled for readability and usability, with quality-of-life improvements throughout the game.