# Phoenix: a Java remake of Emperor of the Fading Suns

> Phoenix rebuilds Emperor of the Fading Suns as a Java game using data from the user's EFS 1.4 installation. Its source includes game systems, a GUI, FLC animation handling and galaxy-file readers. The project aims to reproduce EFS.EXE behavior while keeping the original data outside its distribution.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/joulupunikki/Phoenix>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/joulupunikki/Phoenix/blob/394e324901b44b9ff3daf0004ce45e054db411e4/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/phoenix-efs-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/phoenix-efs-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/phoenix-efs-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An EFS 1.4 installation and Java 8 JDK are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires Apache Maven 3.0.5 or later and the separate math dependency.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/joulupunikki/Phoenix/blob/394e324901b44b9ff3daf0004ce45e054db411e4/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/joulupunikki/Phoenix/blob/394e324901b44b9ff3daf0004ce45e054db411e4/README_DEV.md>

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