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"Picture this. I'm cruising around warp 6 towards my unsuspecting target. As I approach, I drop to impulse and the shields automatically raise. My scanners update constantly to show my target's course. Seconds later, I scan as my ship automatically sends a volley of missiles, re-shields and re-cloaks all in one fluid motion. Next!"
-- Commander Shadow of The Scarlet Brotherhood (Keith Johnson)

What is GECP and who needs it? In short, it is a front-end for Mike Murdock's MajorBBS game, Galactic Empire, that aids the avid player with navigation and combat. GECP simplifies navigation and combat, provides some automatic defense features, and keeps your last SCAN in a window onscreen so you can see the movement of ships easily. It automatically aims phasers for you so you rarely miss a shot, and its auto-orbit feature prevents crashing your expensive ships into planets. It simply is a must for anyone who takes Galactic Empire seriously.

Galactic Empire is a great game, but has two major drawbacks:

• It throws large amounts of data at you, which you must read and process quickly, before it scrolls off the screen.
• Your playing skill depends greatly on your ability to quickly and accurately type a large number of different commands.

• Processes much that data for you, and displays the resulting information in fixed positions onscreen, readable at a glance.
• Provides a large number of easily-remembered hotkeys for most commands, many of which also use other information GECP has gathered behind the scenes.

• GECP v2 - Cross-platform rewrite. This version requires Java 8.
• GECP v1 - Original DOS version. This version can still be used in DOSBox.

Other Galactic Empire links

• Galactic Empire wiki
• Galactic Empire source code