I don't know if other players have felt this way, but the prelude made absolutely no sense because I had no idea on the context of the specific ships or the particulate threat. I had yet to associate any of the units with anything, so it was just kind of like, "okay, that happened."
The prelude was much more dramatic after I realized what the units did and had an idea about how much of a threat there actually was. So, I suggest that you go through the tutorial first. And then it cuts to, "A long time ago..." or something and then you see the prelude. After you've gotten to play around with the game a bit. Really my only comment on the game so far, I'm not far into it.
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