A new Universal Combat Twitter account is online with images and tweets indicating that Derek Smart and 3000AD are gearing up for a remake of Universal Combat, the space combat series that followed the company's Battlecruiser series. There is the promise of an official website soon, and in the meantime, the game now has a Facebook page that includes this post on the news:

For a refresher course on the extensive gameplay features in the series, take a look at the UCCE game manual from 2009.

Our goal with "Universal Combat Advanced", the spiritual successor to our long running Battlecruiser series, is to retain all features, while completely overhauling the graphics engine, game world, assets (models, world, terrain, art) and audio engines. In other words, a modern graphics remake of a classic game.

http://www.3000ad.com/downloads/ucce/GAME_MANUAL.PDF