X is a science fiction space trading and combat simulator series created by German Developer Egosoft. The series is set in the X-Universe where several races populate a number of worlds connected by jumpgates. The games feature free roaming gameplay with trading, combat, empire building, and missions; leading to the series' phrase Trade, Fight, Build, Think.
Story
The fiction behind the X series is provided in the games themselves and in four novels by series fictional writer Helge Kautz: Farnham's Legend, Nopileos, Yoshiko and Hüter der Tore (The Keeper of the Gates). Farnham's Legend is ...