ABOVE, Autonomous Battle Above Endor, is an agent-based simulation of a battle between starships of the Rebel Alliance and those of the Galactic Empire from the well-known Star Wars movies.

It was originally written in 2004 as a 3D and AI playground by a group of Computer Science students at the University of Applied Sciences, Aargau, in Brugg-Windisch as project work for their 4th semester Software Engineering course.

The program is written in Java using Java3D, with the source code available from the GitHub project page.

Documents (in German)

Screenshot of ABOVE right after the program start


Screenshot of an exploding starfighter in ABOVE


Screenshot of ABOVE with simplified starfighters for slower systems