Overview X: Beyond the Frontier, or X-BTF, is the grandfather of the X series. Released by Egosoft in 1999 and set in the year 2912, it details the backstory to the X-Universe. Although most of the features in X3 can be traced back to this game in some way, this Wiki is for the later X3 games and is not suitable directly for assistance in X-BTF related issues or for X-BTF reference. For this, see the game manual or Argonopedia. It was succeeded by X-Tension, a stand-alone expansion pack. Gamepl…