[cackfog]

hi, looking for an old game, mid 90's i think, i have this realy vivid memory of it but cant remember the title, here goes

your character was taken aboard a spaceship (i forget why, but i remember u weren't there by choice), your only companion was this wierd little alien head hologram thing that gave you advice, there where various screens (rooms) within the ship for differnt purposes. The main objective was to seed four (i think four) different species throughout the galaxy and guide there development in such a way that the balance of power is always even ( i seem to recall the manual saying this was nearly impossible, i certainly couldnt do it but i was only a kid ). Your ship could travel forward and backwards in time aswell as to any star system in the galaxy, allowing you to alter the historys of each species to aid them (or to stop them becoming too powerful).

A few detials i remember very well;

The rooms in the ship where the main control room, galaxy/time line viewing room, some sort of fuel room, and a landing pod that could be used to fly down to the planets you'd seeded(although i could never work the damn thing).

when the ship was low on fuel you would have to go into orbit of a gas giant, it was quite a cool little animation (for its day) from the fuel room, if you stayed in orbit too long the ship would start to take damage, the window would crack etc..

I remember there was an underwater race, they went extinct early on in their development so i traveled back in time to the piont they all died out and comunicated with them, their leader told me they were bieng eaten by giant crabs (or something), he said there warriors spears weren't enough as they would have to stab the crabs three times to kill them, by choosing the right options in the conversation you 'invent' the trident, saving the underwater people from the giant crabs, you could also then take the trident and travel further back in time and give it to them earlier in their history, making them more powerful in the future.

anyway, sorry for the realy long description, i've been looking for this game for nearly a year and i'm starting to think i dreamt it!! but if anybody can help me it'll be you guys, thanks in advance, good gaming!

Cackfog