[Puke]

ah, its totally like that, just missing the party aspect. get to run around on a planet, or on a base, or on a ship. get to fly the shuttles, get to fly the ship. get to do quests with aliens. its a shooter. its a flight sim. its a rpg. its a trading and economic game. it walks the dog, it mows the lawn.

anyway, perhaps you are more after something along the lines of Traveller or Mega Traveller. computergames made after the pen-and-paper RPGs of the same name. did a really good job, manage your party, run arround in cities, upgrade your ship, go to different planets and fight off pirates and aliens. you might be able to find old copies on abandonware sites.

or maybe you just want to make a SE4 mod for Runesword or Dungeon Odessy. only thing you woud be missing is the 3d space combat, though you could have 2d tile based stuff.