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This is the illustration on of the version of the game I have. The ring of the ship seemed to me to have more of a circular cross section and that's how I modeled it. (Thanks to Nyrath for providing this high resolution scan of the illustration, which I used with photos of my models to recreate the box art.) StarForce described a future history of humanity reaching out into local interstellar space, and making first contact (and war) with a number of alien species. FTL (faster than light) travel was accomplished by human crew members with psionic abilities amplified by artificial intelligence. The distinctive rings of the starships and the fixed Star Gate installations housed the psionic AIs. Space combat was relatively non-violent, consisting of telepathic disruption of the enemy's crews. One of the things I especially liked about the game was that the space volume on the map represented real astronomical data showing the layout of nearby stars.