 Fragile Allegiance is an open @-@ ended 4X real @-@ time strategy ( RTS ) game from Gremlin Interactive , released in 1996 for MS @-@ DOS and Windows 95 . The game begins on May 25 , <unk> as the player begins their employment with TetraCorp ( a large interstellar megacorporation ) who have set up a new asteroid mining franchise operation in the Fragmented Sectors . There are six alien races competing with <unk> for these resources . Beginning with one building and one million credits , the player is tasked with building up a successful mining operation to sell as much ore as possible to the Federation . Diplomacy is crucial to the success or failure of this franchise operation as the players colonies begin to encroach on one another . 
