I read an article on it in PC Gamer giving all the details of how it works and stuff. Apparently you always have a party, if real players aren't in your party your squad comes with you, you can level all your squad members and give them gear and train them in different skills. You spend your time switching between space battles which are 100% strategy, like knowing when an enemy ship is going to drop it's defense shield for more power, then you can bolster all your shields power to where they are going to strike, and then try to strike them where their shield is weak, like in the show. You alternate between ship battles and missions where you get beamed down to do a task with your party, either your squad members or real people. Sounds kind of cool but I feel kinda bad there isn't any talk about exploring and such which I hope it has some of, I don't want to be forced to battle and then mission and battle and then mission in an enclosed environment. Also your guys have like 4 skills depending on what you are, and you can find and switch out the skills you want to bring with you, and you find squad members and buy them and such like pets.