Looks like Alpha Centauri in space to me!
The campaign is straightout boring too, you'll press that turn button a million times before you get any research done or build anything useful. I thought the fighting scenes would be slightly neat to see but those too are just a bunch of stick shaped soldiers shooting laser beams and ships blowing up with cheesy effects. I was hoping that later on in the game's campaign you would AT LEAST still have all the research you did in the previous mission, but NO. You'll have to wait years and research all the same stuff you had before. All over again. I really wanted to like this game, I really did, I was looking for a turn based sci-fi strategy but this really wasn't it. The more I kept playing the more I kept thinking the old Alpha Centauri was much better and probably still is. I mean come on, I know that nothing really happens in the galaxy but can't you make some effects that distract you or something? The whole thing is based on this big black board with ok planets and suns, but nothing else is there, no asteroid fields, nebulas, views of far away galaxies in the background, nothing.
I hardly ever don't like a game, but this one was very dissapointing.
If you're looking for a sci-fi space strategy game I'd recommend Egemonia, really nice views and gameplay though it came out a few years ago. It has all those elements of research, warfare and economy that make these games pretty neat.