Notes on Armada for the Dreamcast

Spoilers! Armada is a neat game might be good if it had anything in it. Unfortunately, with only one town, linear ship upgrades aside from a mere four module slots, two mission types, and one side mission type mean it runs out of interest long before it runs out of game time.
Leaving aside whatever troubled development and budget issues aside, what was that ending? All five people who ever finished that game had to run to the internet just to find out if it was actually over or not. If you can't end with a bang, at least end. The only NPC with a real resolution is the guy who's going to open a restaurant.