I wonder what, if any, this means for Origins?

Yea, we're pretty excited.

It doesn't affect Origins either way.   What it does do, however, is help people better understand why we had agreed not to use the aliens.  While Stardock does have a license to the setting, characters, etc. Paul had asked us not to use them to leave the door open for them to one day return.  That was 4 years ago.

Now, those efforts have paid off. 

If I wasn't at work I would be screaming til I was out of breath at this news.

This is awesome news. I was a little twitchy about having backed when I discovered the Toys for Bob guys were also wanting to do something in the future, but this eases my mind - and explains why Stardock have taken the approach they did.

This is such wonderful news! All the asking nicely, begging, pleading, petitions, threats, etc are finally paying off in a big way!

First Star Control:Origin is on it's way, and now this announcement!

It's time to *play* you *happy campers*!

Good lord, what rock have I been hiding under for the last couple days? This is amazing news! Thanks Brad and Stardock for letting this come true! 

Good. I can feel your Juffo-Wup. I am Juffo-Wup. Take your Juffo-Wup! Strike me down with all your Juffo-Wup, and your journey towards the Juffo-Wup will be complete!

In the long-run the Star Control multiverse will include gateways to many different universes including licensed Sci-Fi universes.

This is excellent.  This is the idea I had for the story of my 7DS (7 Deadly Sins) universe.  A universe in which all sci-fi genres could exists.  This is how I explained having Star Control races such as the Kzer-Za and Kohr-Ah Urquan meet and fight races from the Sins universe, along with Empire from Star Wars, the Antarans from Master of Orion and my Atlantians from my own design, coupled with using ships from Star Gate and other genres.  I made it my own "cannon".  Its a universe where everything and anything could exist.

That being said, using the multiverse model for the new Star Control means that I can do the very same thing in the new game, and have "official" Star Control races battle against Star Destroyers once again.

One question...will we be able to import models, or do they need to be made inside the game engine like Galactic Civ?  If we have the ability to import, especially "mesh" or other formats that are easily available, it would greatly support to the modding community and the game overall.

Thanks for the awesome updates.

DANMAN

Question that I haven't seen addressed/answered yet.

Since the SC rights are now owned by Stardock.  Does the "Activision permission" mean that this newly announced sequel will be under the SD banner with Paul and Fred on loan to SD, or are the rights being licensed to Activision (or someone else) from SD for them to work on it elsewhere?  Or is this question spoiling an upcoming announcement?(*)

Good news - although my SC memories are all from console (Sega Genesis).

cheers, and cheers to doing right by the fans and creators,

-tid242

ps: (*) if the above question is getting at disclosing an announcement you're not ready to make, or fueling speculation you don't want right now with respect to new game announcements, or licensing agreements, you have my full permission to editing this post down to just my 'good news' comment.  cheers

Ah, interesting.  Thanks for the fast reply Rhonin.

What is this ? ? ? ? i'm usually first at hearing the news here when it breaks now i'm the LAST....!

This is truly Astounding news i am beyond stoked ! ! ! ! !

I don't beleive this  ! ! ! Paul and Fred coming back to continue this masterpiece is The Best news i've heard in over 20 years ! ! ! ! !

I have to say THANK YOU SO MUCH SO VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH, but then again it's always just been natural for them to come back and continue what is truly fundamentally part of who they are, and i can say it with full pride and respect, this was the best game in Human history, for the Masters to come back and continue their Long awaited journey back home,back where they have always belonged back to STAR CONTROL....IS The BEST News in gaming I've ever heard.

The Legacy LIVES ON !!!

Now i even want to more play Star Control ORIGINS as a build up to Paul And Fred's Sequal.

It's a win win, now more people even would want to play SC ORIGINS as well ! ! ! And then they get a comeback from the Masters Paul and Fred as well with their Sequal.... It's raining sunshine and rainbow worlds again ! ! !  Yes it TRULY IS, i have been waiting so direly long for this day to arrive ! ! ! !

Congratulations to the team from Stardock and Paul And Fred from Activision for deciding to Continue this Masterpiece, it's a Win for Every single one of you and us ! ! ! ! !

Hmm, I'd hope to see them release a standalone on the back of Stardock's engine, to be published by Stardock.

But I'm sure for reasons of personal or business, this has already been discussed and shot down (most likely a non-compete from Activision).