 Fragile Allegiance is essentially a remake of Gremlin Interactive 's 1994 Amiga game K240 , with the graphics and user interface revamped for the improved PC hardware available at the time . The core gameplay elements of K240 are retained ; the game is set in an asteroid belt , the Sci @-@ Tek blueprint system replaces research and the player is tasked with building up a successful mining operation . Many of the buildings , ships and missiles have the same names and functions as those in K240 and in both games there are six alien races competing against the player . The soundtrack for the game was composed by Patrick Phelan who also composed the soundtrack for K240 . The game was released in 1996 and competed against other empire building titles such as Ascendancy and Master of Orion 2 . 
