I played that a long while ago, I thought it was pretty nice. I would've bought the prequel but I hate spending money. Thanks for reminding me about it
At the moment, the redeemable villain. Not necessarily because it is bad, but because it's been handled incredibly poorly in recent years so I have a poor view of it.
If we want to be Uber realists, space battles would take place via rockets and missiles from distances so great neither side can see the other anymore. But that's boring. It is fiction, it takes liberties to be fun