The Kickstarter is now underway for the recently teased (and leaked) Satellite Reign, a project from developer 5 Lives Studios that is indeed an homage to Syndicate Wars, described as: "A real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open world cyberpunk city, from the creator of Syndicate Wars." Here's what they plan to do if they raise the £350,000 they seek:

Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game. You control a team of four agents, each with distinct and unique abilities, collectively battling for control of a fully simulated, living cyberpunk city.

The game world is designed to facilitate emergent gameplay, giving you the tools and freedom to play how you want to play, so you can create strategies and scenarios that not even we had anticipated!

Customise your team with the strength to destroy your enemies head-on, or hack into their facilities to manipulate their infrastructure without them ever knowing you were even there.

Will you take down your enemies with brute-force? Covert espionage and infiltration? Or will you use propaganda to influence the citizens of the city and overthrow the controlling powers?

Satellite Reign will be released on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.