Star Wars Rebellion is a grand strategy game of galactic expansion and domination. At the game’s start, players choose to take the role of either the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire. Players must then battle it out for control of the known Star Wars galaxy (up to 200 worlds) through strategic deft and tactical savvy.

There are two major components of the game: Strategic and Tactical.

2. How does the strategic component work?

This is where players make the majority of decisions, including manufacturing, resource management, fleet deployment, mission assignments and exploration. Players are updated on events by their "agents" (C-3PO for the Rebel Alliance and IMP-22 for the Galactic Empire).

3. How does the tactical component work?

When two opposing fleets meet over the same system, the tactical component automatically kicks in. This is a separate game element where players can join ships that have been deployed into task-forces or fighter squadrons, and assign orders or targets. All of this takes place in a real-time 3D space-combat "engine" that is moving as soon as the conflict is joined.

4. How do you win the game?

Each side (Alliance or Empire) must satisfy specific victory conditions in order to win. To win for the Alliance, the player must capture Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine and capture Coruscant, the Imperial capital. To win for the Empire, the player must capture Luke Skywalker, Mon Mothma and destroy the Rebel headquarters (which is randomly placed at the beginning of the game and has the advantage of being mobile.)

5. How important are the characters?

Very. In fact, they form a major part of the game. Star Wars Rebellion is heavily character driven. Each side has dozens of characters – drawn from Star Wars – at its disposal. To help win the game, a number of missions must be assigned to achieve specific goals, such as diplomatic missions to sway a system’s loyalty, sabotage missions to drop planetary defenses (allowing for bombardment) or rescue missions if another character has been captured. By assigning a character to a mission that complements his/her attributes, the chances of that mission succeeding are greatly enhanced.

6. This game has been called a "real-time strategy"? What does this mean?

In the case of Star Wars Rebellion, the term "real-time" merely differentiates the game from "turn-based." Star Wars Rebellion is not turn-based. Instead, game events are in constant motion, meaning that while the player is making decisions and implementing moves, so is the AI or opposing player. Players will be able to pause the game to take a break.

7. What are the multiplayer plans for this game?

Star Wars Rebellion will be playable for two players only over a local area network, modem-to-modem, direct connect or via the Internet on The Zone.

8. What are the minimum system requirements and when will the game ship?

Star Wars Rebellion will be Windows 95 native and will require a minimum Pentium 90 with 16MB of RAM and Direct X 5.0. It ships on one CD-ROM.