Who protects the protectorates Image credit: Starlance Studios If you have been hankering for a new scifi singleplayer real-time strategy game - specifically, one in which the charm of your human protagonist is inversely proportional to the quality of the mechs - spare a few moments for ZeroSpace . A collaboration between Starlance Studios and Ironward, it puts you in charge of a galactic "Protectorate" army made up of units from various species or factions, and invites you to splattergun swarms of grumpy arachnids, while navigating "through political turmoil in the Orion sector". It's out in early access on 20th July. Aside from top-down Starcraft-style combat, Zerospace offers branching dialogue in the Mass Effect vein, with players confronted by such philosophical dilemmas as "mission comes first vs maybe it would be bad if all of my soldiers died", to paraphrase the one bit of dialogue from the trailer, below. I hope this isn't what they mean by 'navigating political turmoil'.…