Starship Corporation: Jarheads in Space

Iceberg Interactive and Coronado Games have released a major update for their starship-building sim Starship Corporation, currently available in Steam’s Early Access program. The ‘Military Update’ expands the players options when diplomacy has failed and deeds need to follow words. Enabling players to equip their starships with new military modules, the update prepares your crew to counter the many dangers in space.

Unlocking new weapons and fuselages are done as per usual, via expensive research and experimentation. Additionally, several new rooms have been added, including the basic cannon, advanced cannon, smart missiles as well as the rail gun. New contracts to build exciting new ships are also now available.

The update also gives you access to new contracts, from small police patrol vessels over to gigantic Battle cruisers. For more information on Starship Corporation, head on over to the its official Steam page.

Official Press Release

Haarlem, The Netherlands – January 17th, 2016 – Iceberg Interactive and Coronado Games have released a major update for their starship-building sim Starship Corporation (PC), currently available in Steam’s Early Access program. The ‘Military Update’ enables the player to equip their starships with much needed military might, to counter the many dangers in space. While you progress and build your starship, you can now unlock all weapons and fuselages needed for the interplanetary military-industrial complex. Simultaneously, several new rooms have been added, including the basic cannon, advanced cannon, smart missiles (take those meteorites down!) as well as the railgun. New contracts to build exciting new ships are also now available.

David Murent, lead developer at Coronado Games says: “Development takes a big step forward with this Military Update. There is a lot more to be discovered, most importantly the final missing piece of this game: the strategy elements to unlock new markets in the galaxy map. However, for now we will focus on fixing issues that may pop up with today’s big update, so keep the feedback coming!”

Some highlights of the Military update are:

added new military fuselage ‘Portador-818’
added new military fuselage ‘Mäger-Y’
added new contract ‘Police Cruiser’
added new contract ‘Border Patrol Vessel’
added new contract ‘Battlecruiser’
added new contract ‘Missilecruiser’
added new rooms: Basic Cannon, Advanced Cannon, Auto Cannon, Rapid Fire Cannon, Long Range Cannon, Railgun, Basic Missiles, Smart Missiles, Cluster Missiles and Drone Missiles