What Chess is to medieval warfare, Homeworlds is to Star Trek and Star Wars. (Even better comparisons are Starship Troopers and Ender's Game.) We've made contact with an alien race, but they are Evil and intent on destroying us, so we must obliterate them first. We are galactic overlords in this epic space opera, commanding fleets of starships, blowing up planets in our wake, and ultimately conquering the universe. And it's all done with little clusters of colorful pyramids arranged upon the table.