Star Ace

Star Ace is a science fiction role-playing game published by Pacesetter Ltd in 1984 in which players take on the roles of rebel pilots fighting against an evil empire.

[1] Chill, Timemaster, and Star Ace were all built around the same house system and were all released by Pacesetter within a year.

and what the heck, you'll hear the sound of lasers roaring through the vacuum of outer space as flaming engines propel you at speeds far greater than that of light.

Swan found the rules easy to learn, "but not particularly conducive to role-playing, because PCs advance more quickly as a result of violent encounters than from interacting with other characters."

[2] In his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, Lawrence Schick suggested that the game was greatly inspired by the Star Wars movies.