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ORION: PreludeNewsORION | 25 Year Anniversary
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ORION | 25 Year Anniversary

ORION: Prelude · published 25 Aug 2025, 15:52 UTC

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First and foremost, this is a very special day. The quarter century celebration for Orion, originally announced on August 25, 2000.

That is absolutely wild to think about! With the first commercial release ("ORION: Prelude") starting development back in 2009 and releasing in 2012. It's been a crazy adventure so far and it's brought me a lot of experience, learnings, opportunity, perspective and I am very appreciative for that. The good, the bad, the ugly; I've certainly seen and learned a lot, all of which compounds and culminates into what I want to do next.Secondly and very importantly; Hello. It's been some time. I apologize for the lack of communication and I know some folks may be wondering if I have plans for anything more with Orion. The short answer is:
Yes.The long answer is:
The story continues...

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2025 QUESTIONNAIRE

We’ve put together a 2025 Questionnaire that will help us analyze additional perspectives. If you could take a few minutes and answer the questions there it’d be a tremendous help.
https://forms.gle/fxJWThvaT6Cv6NDM8

STEAM SALE (25 YEARS)

We have also put together a Steam Sale across all legacy Orion games to celebrate. This is a week long discount from August 25 - September 1, 2025 (10am PST).

[ ORION: Prelude @ Steam ]
[ Guardians of Orion @ Steam ]

ORION @ DISCORD

Feel free to join and share the Orion Discord. Interact, react, suggest and discuss: https://discord.com/invite/cY5XHC3

Thank you to all!
Happy 25th birthday, Orion.

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