Outside of Stardock's plans to develop a Star Control prequel, the original lead developers of Star Control 2 had recently announced their plans to begin work on Ghosts Of The Precursors, a true sequel to Star Control 2 (we don't talk about SC3), officially minus the branding, but set in the same familar universe.
It had seemed too good to be true, and both Stardock and the original dev duo (Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III) seemingly had the situation in hand. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case today, according to this new Ghosts of The Precursors dev-blog post.
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In summary, it's bad news for everyone. While the Ghosts of the Precursors developers initially questioned Stardock's absolute ownership of the Star Control rights from a bankrupt Atari (the purchase was apparently for just the Star Control name and some concepts involved in Star Control 3, which we will continue not talking about), it seems that Stardock have returned with a sucker-punch and are doubling down.
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