It´s only a scan of the rules, the counter and the maps. Okay, that´s what I expected.

But the quality of the scan is worst. At the rulebook you can see that is used (and there are still shrinkwrap examples of the game on ebay), the counter.... uh.

There is a dragon on one counter. And a troll. Maybe. At least that's the rule book specify. You can´t read it on the counter.

I think it is better than Full Thrust (FT is a great game!) There are maybe two reasons: - You play it on hex. I don´t like to mesure every rage etc.

• The ship-rooster are easyer to read. You don´t have to remember what every symbol mean. Shields (and not some obscure triangel) stands for shields.

And it is much better than ACTO. You can create every ship you want... Okay it is not so easy and Astro tech etc. (the old Battletechgame) had much more realism, but half the fun.

Maybe the best star game on the market today (still waiting for Wormhole...) As you can read my english is bad. But I understand every rule, so the must really easy!

Don´t think the book with ~30 shiproster and some backgroud information is worth the price... Full thrust offer more for free... Of course counters for ALL the ships are free to download, starmade is on my opinion the better game (I like the hex). But why I gave this product 5 Stars?? I would said: The Sovereign Stars The Game - 4-5 pages in this book - works on his own or as campain for maybe every Star Battle Game (I tried it for a FANTASY campain. It also works very well!!!) It´s easy to learn, fun, fast, FANTASTIC!

(Sorry for my bad english, I´m from Germany)