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* [[Sequence Breaking]]: There are two major ways to do this:
** It's possible to skip much of the game by {{spoiler|waiting for the Kohr-Ah Death March to begin.}} Why do quests for alien species when you can simply wait for {{spoiler|them to be exterminated, then loot their worlds for [[Plot Coupon|plot coupons]]?}} {{spoiler|You'd be a [[Jerkass]] if you did; that's why.}}
** Additionally, you can finish the story mode without allying with the Earth Starbase. This feature went undiscovered ''to the programmers themselves'' for ''more than ten years''. It also [[Game Breaking Bug|crashed the game]] prior to a special handler being added in The Ur-Quan Masters. Doing this is both difficult and ''extremely'' tedious, which helps to explain why it took so long. See [http://forum.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?topic=1399.0 here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20161118135711/http://onpon4.github.io/other/no-starbase-challenge-guide/index.html here for more information].
* [[Shout-Out]]: There's a ''long'' [http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Influences_and_references "Influences and references" page] on ''The Ur-Quan Masters'' wiki, and it starts with the "This page is currently incomplete..." template, including many references to ''[[Starflight]]''; not only its setting inspired many ''[[Star Control]]'' features, but some of the developers worked on both.
* [[Sidequest]]