One of the best kept secrets about Gratuitous Space Battles is that it's actually quite funny. From the names of some of the ships to the comments that pepper the status reports, developer Cliff Harris has stealthed a sense of humor into an otherwise deadly serious, deadly addictive strategy game about fleets of space ships blowing the ever-lovin' crap out of each other.

So when he decides to sell a little downloadable content called "The Tribe", it's worth taking a look at his backstory.

The Tribe are a race of galactic pacifists and hippies, hoping to live a dreamlike 'chillaxed' existence between the stars. Depressed and generally given 'bad vibes' by the existence of constant stellar war, they have decided to bring peace to the galaxy by the simple, clean and somewhat ironic route of total eradication of all other life forms.

For six bucks, you get a faction with a completely different lifestyle that includes 11 new ships, powerful short-range kinetic weaponry, and enhanced repair modules, which they really need because their ships have less armor and shields, relying instead on stronger hulls. As Harris puts it:

This means Tribe ships seem to be on-fire and falling apart for half the battle.