Title screen.

The training tutorial -- destroying a decommissioned freighter.

Setting up a multiplayer game.

The Interstellar Concordium -- one of the two new species included with SFC2.

The main strategic game map.

A nice touch: each race has its own rank insignia, campaign ribbons and medals. Pictured here is an up-and-coming federation's officer I-love-me board.

Repair and resupply; each cost you prestige points, which you earn after successful missions.

Shopping for a new vessel; you can have up to three at any given time, but you must first earn enough prestige to buy one.

Two Federation cruisers assaulting an orbital shipyard.

A Federation dreadnought and battlecruiser finish off a poor Klingon cruiser.

The same Federation dreadnought and battlecruiser now facing two Orion Pirate vessels; notice the space station in the background.

In a nauseating nod to its late 20th century American counterpart, the Federation finds itself facing a war on drugs...

The mission debriefing. Wow! 450 prestige points!

Ah, the Klingon D7 Battlecruiser! The mainstay of the Klingon fleet.

A Klingon destroyer poking at the shields of a Federation police escort.

An overhead view of a melee between three Klingon cruisers and a Hydran convoy; the Hydran cruiser at bottom is about to be destroyed.

Two Klingon cruisers finishing off an ISC carrier.

The classic Romulan War Eagle.

A Romulan destroyer defends a freighter against an approaching Federation vessel.

A Romulan cruiser and two dreadnoughts assault a small Mirak fleet.

A Romulan dreadnought inflicting internal damage on a Mirak battlecruiser.

The same dreadnought's right front shield is pierced by a phaser barrage.

Schematics on a Gorn dreadnought; not much subtlety there -- just raw power.

A Gorn light cruiser fires a plasma bolt at a space monster.

A Gorn assault freighter (!) and a light cruiser firing upon an ISC freighter.

A Gorn task force engaging a small Romulan vessel; nice planet!

Feline races seem to find themselves in the pilot seats and at the helms of many starships in science fiction; here we have a Lyran frigate.

In-mission communications are moderately humorous at times.

Aaaagghhh! The crew of this Lyran frigate says its prayers as it prepares to be incinerated by a salvo of Mirak missiles.

The ESG (Expanding Sphere Generator) makes the Lyrans very distinctive and different to play.

Explosions in SFC2 are glorious.

More fireworks. An asteroid-like space monster converts a Lyran frigate into floating debris and dust.

The other feline race, the Mirak (Kzinti), rely heavily on missile-armed ships, with often devastating effectiveness.

A Mirak cruiser fires a spread of missiles at an Orion pirate heavy cruiser.

The ISC, the new bad guys, sure have pretty ships.

A planetary scanning mission for the ISC's War of Pacification.

Ships in SFC2 are rendered in loving detail; pictured here in close-up is an ISC frigate.

And, finally, the Hydrans. Not the easiest species to play, but their penchant for fighter fighters (almost every ship is a carrier) makes them formidable.

A Hydran battlecruiser and dreadnought (unfairly) facing a pair of Lyran cruisers; the battlecruiser is beaming marines over to one of the Lyran ships.

Firing a fusion beam and hellbore simultaneously at another hapless Lyran cruiser.

An unintentional shot across the bow of a Federation cruiser.