Sea of Stars Early Access update - 8/4/2014

Today's update is a pretty big one! Among other things it adds another race: the mysterious Tchorak. Their technology, if you can call it that, is very different from anything else in the galaxy and makes them a particularly tough adversary. Here's the full change list:

• added the Tchorak, an enigmatic race of magma-dwelling rock creatures with molten asteroid ships and unique weapons

• added a fighter craft for the Klakar homeworld defense, and textured their trading vessel

• added texture scale/resolution settings in procedural texturing for very small/very large objects

• added scripted Klakar trading vessel

• added Klakar summoning beacon for quick trades and combat reinforcements

• added some more names for large Garthan and Zorg ships

• added indication that travel time is uncertain when traveling through nebula without the calculator

• additional engine features to accommodate new weapons, e.g. missiles with curved paths

• grouped pause and escape buttons in combat UI

• added indicator that items were left behind on a planet

• added indicator that a new ship was added to the palette (blinking)

• changed Zorg fighter so the gun doesn't stick out as much

• changed credits font

• new Tan Ru image

• new music/ambient for several location

• fixed dragging items from ship to store not swapping properly

• fixed radar blips being very quiet when the camera is far away

• fixed escape button behaving oddly when combat is paused

• fixed being able to install two repair systems

• fixed right-drag on a ship not rotating combat view

• fixed alliance request window getting stuck if there were more than one enemy to ally against

• fixed alliance not affecting other allies (e.g. Klakar might attack friendly Muktians)

• fixed a bug where destroyed ships could survive with zero hitpoints if you escaped before they exploded

• fixed ship management screen lighting so it no longer depends on map orientation

• fixed the game continuing if your last ship is a fighter (Ripcord). This now ends the game.

• fixed missing cobalt torpedo sound