Editing Star Control (section)

== Ghosts of the Precursors ==

The maybe-sort-of sequel to Star Control II, should it ever be made. With the toys-to-life fad playing itself out, Activision has apparently allowed Toys for Bob to get back to work on Star Control.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20180223033807/https://www.dogarandkazon.com/ ...except then Stardock sued Toys for Bob] claiming that they didn't make Star Control and that [[Bullshit|the whole franchise is totally theirs because they pried the trademarks from Atari's cooling corpse]], after 4 years of assuring Toys for Bob that they weren't going to lay any claim on the content of the previous games because they didn't and don't own the copyrights to their content. They also attempted to trademark almost every name associated with the classic Star Control games (and very specifically "Ur-Quan Masters") in a blatant assassination attempt against both Ghosts of the Precursors and the Ur-Quan Masters source port. [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/an-extended-interview-with-star-control-creators-fred-ford-paul-reiche-iii/ You can learn how Toys for Bob created the series in this extended interview.] You can also read Stardock founder Brad Wardell (under the alias Frogboy) try to defend his company's actions on the UQM fan community forums [https://forum.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?topic=7396.0 here.]

On June 11, 2019, both parties announced that they [https://web.archive.org/web/20190718022602/https://www.dogarandkazon.com/ settled out of court], where Stardock keeps the ''Star Control'' name while Toys for Bob keeps the setting, races and lore under the ''Ur-Quan Masters'' name. Currently, the true sequel to Star Control 2, now tentatively known as '''The Ur-Quan Masters 2''', is in development.