Over time those Mods and the game itself quietly slipped away into the corners of the internet. Even with the sometimes difficult and incomplete tools, and the lack of detailed documentation, a surprising number of Mods appeared for the game during its limited life. Much of that was due to the games high modability.

However for all its quirks and flaws, it has a charm and a tone that is not available in a lot of space sims that drew in a small but passionate base of fans. Unlike other space flight sims such as Freespace, it was often criticised for its more slow pace, questionable AI, and its not always successful attempt to be more than it was capable of being. It allows player to fly fighters all the way up to capital ships in both space and planetary atmosphere through mission based as well as ever changing dynamic campaigns.

Starshatter was a flawed but ambitious space sim from a one man developer studio in th early 2000's. MODS for this small and quirky space sim from 2004. Here you will find a collection of avaialble tools, source code and A repository for the space sim Starshatter: The Gathering Storm.

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