An original design document, dated 22 March 1995, was posted online by Mike Dailly on 22 March 2011 [REF].
Gary Penn, creative director of DMA at the time, cited Elite as a major influence, "But I'd been working on Frontier, which is very different and there were definitely other people on the team who had things like Syndicate, Mercenary and Elite very much in their minds as well.