[1990s]Galactic trading game

It's a game I used to play on PC in the mid to late '90's.

Basically you establish mining outposts on planets and go around collecting, buying and selling the minerals.

Platform(s): PC

Genre: Space/Trading Sim

Estimated year of release: 1995-1999

Graphics/art style: Mostly from the inside of a spaceship cockpit (I think)

Notable characters: N/A

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Gazillionaire, Elite, or escape velocity maybe? Maybe Freelancer, but that was later than your time estimate.
- Sorry it’s not any of those.
  Alien legacy was really close graphics wise but it was more of an exploration/trading sim without the turns.
  
  Ah. Hmm. The only other ones I remember that might be in similar vein that might trip a memory are Fragile Alliance, X: Beyond the Frontier, but those aren't really graphically similar. Hardwar, maybe?
  If you want space fairing, base building, trade empire creating fun, that is the X universe's entire thing though. If you can't find what you are looking for, maybe X3 or X4 would scratch the itch.
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Your description sounds like the Elite series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Encounters
Alien Legacy? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3aFJK3XY6w8
- The graphics are super similar but that isn't the game.
  The one I'm thinking about isn't broken up into turns.
Outpost or outpost 2? Haven't played them though.
- Outpost looks more like a city building sim and this one was a space exploration/trading sim.
I remember playing a game like this but can't remember the name. I think I still have the disks but I can't move right now to go dig out the box and look. Shoot me a reminder dm tomorrow so I remember to go look for it.
- I could swear it’s called galactic something.
  
  Was it Escape Velocity?
  Here's some gameplay footage you can watch.
You would probably have remembered if it was a Star Wars game. But was it Star Wars Rebellion?
Or Master of Orion?
It doesn't fit your time range exactly, and I think it's got such a distinctive franchise tie-in that it would really stand out in your memory if this were it, but I'll throw it out there anyway because it's kind of an underappreciated oddball entry in the series: Wing Commander - Armada. Being a Wing Commander game of course you get to fly all the expected Wing Commander ships (and Kilrathi ones too if I recall correctly!) As the linked video shows, a major part of the game was from a console where you're managing your territory and resources. You're doing that by building mines and shipyards and things on various planets. I don't remember "selling" per se, but you obviously are trying to turn materials into more mines and more starships rather than cash but it's sort of a form of cash.
- Or perhaps Privateer? I never played it but I think it was basically Elite in the Wing Commander universe.

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