Well, it's a pretty complicated game (confuses the hell out of me honestly, I had to get a friend put a lot of it into context).
I wouldn't really know how it differs form Eve since I haven't played that either, but it sounds like a pretty original game. You get your four main "classes," which is diplomacy, explorer, combat and worker (mining and all that, resources).
Cool thing with this is, since the planets are random generated you could find literally thousands of planets, too many too even list, and each one with unique properties. For anyone with a brave cap, they've released a combat prototype. I've downloaded it but trying to set it all up, I'll edit it letting you know how it is once I'm finished.
