I haven't finished the campaign yet but what I've seen so far is on brand with the right vibe, great soundtrack, that old HW feel that I've enjoyed for decades. The HW story has always been a bit like a cool sci-fi anime, and with that in my mind I am enjoying it quite a bit so far.
Perhaps I'll update my opinion later with more time in-game, but so far I am extremely satisfied with it and my purchase. I'm smiling at all the callbacks to older story beats, loving the environments, and the graphics make the lovely space vistas shine. I stayed up entirely too late last night playing through the tutorial and first few missions and I am hooked.
Highly doubt it would be a religion, at least none of the majors on Earth. Maybe, but honestly they seem more concerned with discovering the afterlife than our universe.
For generation ships - that's a loooooong way out. I can see space habitats, even mobile ones, made from hollowed-out asteroids spun up for gravity, ferrying folks around in-system. But without a magic constant acceleration engine like the Epstein drive or FTL travel, it would simply take too long. By the time the ship got to alpha centauri, it would be like 10k years later. Let that sink it. That's longer than recorded human history. If you think a society in a bubble could stay stable for that long... there's simply no way.
Do YOU think humanity will ever build generation ships? Why, or why not? And if yes, which fictional generation ship would be the closest to reality, if any?
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