Star Control 3 is an action-adventure game developed by Legend
Entertainment and published by Accolade. The third and final official
entry in the Star Control trilogy, the game was released for MS-DOS on
September 24, 1996, and Mac OS in 1998. It features a single-player
campaign combining space exploration, alien dialogue, and ship-to-ship
combat; the player engages in top-down battles between starships with
unique abilities. To create this sequel, Accolade hired Legend
(president pictured) after series creators Paul Reiche III and Fred
Ford decided to pursue other projects. Legend was selected for their
familiarity with Star Control and experience with interactive fiction
writing. They designed the game in consultation with fans, replacing
features from Star Control II that had received negative feedback. Star
Control 3 was considered a critical and commercial success upon
release, but later suffered from comparisons to the award-winning Star
Control II.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_3>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
Raja Muda Hashim, the uncle of Bruneian sultan Omar Ali
Saifuddin II, conceded land to British adventurer James Brooke,
establishing the Raj of Sarawak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_of_Sarawak>
1877:
At the Battle of Shiroyama (depicted), the decisive engagement
of the Satsuma Rebellion, the Imperial Japanese Army defeated rebel
samurai of the Satsuma Domain led by Saigō Takamori.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiroyama>
2019:
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled that
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's advice to Queen Elizabeth II that
Parliament should be prorogued was unlawful.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_controversy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tellurian:
1. (formal or literary) Of or relating to the earth; (specifically,
chiefly science fiction) inhabiting planet Earth as opposed to other
planets.
2. (mineralogy) Of a mineral: containing tellurium.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tellurian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They
are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their
full extent.
--Horace Walpole
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole>