Anyone who's ever started pre-warp in a game of Distant Worlds: Universe[0] knows the hopelessness. Pirates with FTL ships pop in, destroy your outer gas minin

Anyone who's ever started pre-warp in a game of Distant Worlds: Universe[0] knows the hopelessness. Pirates with FTL ships pop in, destroy your outer gas mining stations. You scramble your planetside navy, which begins to burn toward your system's equivalent of Jupiter. They'll be there in 4 months. In a matter of seconds, the pirates zip out beyond the Oort Cloud. Your navy are currently half-way between Earth and Jupiter, and, at that moment, the pirates pop-in next to your Earthside starport and have their way with your home base. You call your navy back, even as you know it'll make no difference. (On the flip side, later, once you unlock warp and can zip across your star system in seconds, you feel like a god. Repeat with interstellar travel.) 0: https://store.steampowered.com/app/261470/Distant_Worlds_Universe https://store.steampowered.com/app/261470/Distant_Worlds_Uni...