Thank you for agreeing to meet me, Commander.

Have you met the head scientist? I hate him.

I... haven't met him yet. Should I?

Don't, he's an arsehole. They call me "Commander" but won't let me fire him. "He's a genius", they keep saying. I don't believe in geniuses. I believe in good teams. He insults the engineers in every report. It's not even funny! I want to lock him in the workshop and tell them he's a strikebreaker.

...Because they're Soviets? Your organisation is unusual. It’s 2009, the seventh decade of the Cold War, yet you're working with both powers to stop the alien menace.

Yeah, Xenonauts 2 is a modern UFO .

UFO?

Oh, right, you’re like 9 or whatever. So, in 1994 there was UFO (aka X-COM). Build bases, shoot down UFOs, land soldiers to shoot them and reverse engineer their stuff. In 2009, Goldhawk started on Xenonauts , a modern interpretation of that idea. But Firaxis beat them to the post with XCOM , a remake that was...…