

I kind of randomly came across this forum while looking up information about Star Control 2. I've enjoyed the game (and Star Control 1 before it) since I was a little kid and have won the game several times. Recently, I've found myself wondering (and this may sound ridiculous) if it's possible to win the game without ever visiting the Earth starbase...
Impossible? Maybe not? Has it been done before? I don't know, but I've decided to give it a try, and what's the point of doing something so ridiculous without having someone to share it with?

I'm doing pretty well at it so far. The biggest hurdle at the beginning was the Slylandro Probes, since I have no means of giving my flagship extra speed and I can't evade them, so the first order of business was to get to the Slylandro homeworld and get the Probe destruct code. This was made even more complicated by the fact that the game seems to spawn extra Probes if you haven't been to the starbase yet! (Probably to discourage people from doing exactly what I'm doing)

What I did was I went to Alpha Wolf first, a star system that is close to Sol and has abundant life forms, and then flew on until I ran out of fuel. Once the Melnorme visited me, I traded the life form data to them and they gave me enough fuel to get to Arilou space, where I took the natural Quasispace portal the rest of the way to Beta Corvi. Once I got the Destruct Code, I could breathe a small sigh of relief, (I encountered no less than 23 Probes on the way there!) and visited the nearby Rainbow World for an infusion of credits so I can keep getting fuel from the Melnorme. Then, since I was in the neighbourhood, I got the components for the Portal Spawner and addressed the next big hurdle: Getting more crew!
Well, the Pkunk offered the solution to that. I picked up the four Pkunk ships that they offer you at their homeworld and took advantage of the fact that they sometimes regenerate with full crew in combat. What I would do was take the Pkunk ships in to combat with one crew member on board, get them killed, let them regenerate, and then finish the battle with full crew. Then I would recall the crew from the ship and redistribute as necessary. I got pretty good at fighting Mycon with the Pkunk, so they seemed the best candidates for this strategy and now, I have completely restocked my flagship, my Earthling Cruiser, my Spathi Eluder, and all four of my Pkunk Furies with crew! (Of course, that also took a lot of saves and reloads, since they don't always regenerate properly)
So, now with a good source of crew and fuel, I think I'm well on my way to doing this! It's a bit of a pain in the butt, traveling everywhere so slowly, (I renamed my captain to "slow" and the flagship to "slower" as a joke)


If anyone has any comments, questions, or suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
