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Nice art!

I played the original in ASCII characters in 1978! I discovered that if you fired phasers with a negative value, you gained that amount of energy, and so did the enemy! This led to my strategy of placing the ship on the edge of an enemy sector with full shields, firing -100,000 (or something), waiting for the now powerful return fire to obliterate my shields and systems, then limp by impulse drive into the adjacent sector (which you could do), find a base, recover, then blaze away with the power of the Gods! Bit hazy on the details, but as a kid I thought it was pretty cool to discover this 'hack'.

Thanks for the warp drive down memory lane!
 

Got to Day 30 before the crash. I gotta say it's really nice to see a new idea, this is such a simple and fresh take, and really fun... and I've been gaming since 1978! Would love to see this developed further.

Brilliant!