If anyone is left alive out there...I have finally done it. I have wrapped up, tied off, and closed up any remaining holes in Unstable Space, and packaged what we have into a playable (hopefully) beta release. I decided to take this on about 4 months ago, after giving up any hope of ever seeing any progress about 4 years ago. There were no coders, so there was no hope, and the project died.

But I didn't give up. I always thought that one day I could come back to it and maybe teach myself to code, and finish the game. And so that is what I did.

* Buy and Sell goods for transport between stations and star systems
* Explore and discover new star systems, lpoints and routes between stars
* Mine and prospect for ores throughout known and unknown space
* Smuggle legal and illegal goods past police or through unstable space routes
* Pirate goods from legitimate traders and resell them to fences or black market stations
* Collect scrap metals and components from battlefields to resell at refining stations
* Accept and collect bounties on notorious criminals, do-gooders or military units
* Hire and command wingmen to help you trade, explore, mine, smuggle or pirate
* Build alliances with factions and make enemies of others
* Purchase or trade in spaceships
* Outfit your own ship, or the ships of any of your wingmen
* Discover secret bases and sources for military or experimental weaponry

In addition, Unstable Space simulates life in the Middle States to a degree not seen previously in Independence War 2, or many other space sims:

* Cargo is real and individually and physically represented and manipulated in game
* Capsule Jumps between systems are pilotable simulations rather than cut scenes
* All ships are fully simulated and live in the Middle States much like the player
* Factions are involved in an on going cluster-wide struggle, with no pre-determined outcome
* Players can own mining stations
* NPCs pilot the same ships and weapons as the player
* Missiles are mostly nuclear and extremely deadly
* And much more

Where from here? Well, I am going to try and give as much bug fixing support as I can, over at the Torn-stars.com forums. I will try my best, but I can only give limited support. This project has already sucked my lifeforce down to the bare minimum. However, if a few people got into it, or even wanted to keep tweaking US and i-war2, I might make a few post release addons. New ships, cockpits, new types of NPC ships, more career paths, Bounty hunting missions etc. However, more likely than not I will just put on my shades, and walk away in slow motion as everything explodes behind me.