Seems like I heard about this a long time ago, looks like it's finally about to come out 9/27.
It sounds like a scifi Battlestations game, which would be easily worth $45 if it plays well.
I like the smaller scale RTS games like BSP/BSM and EndWar, I'm glad to see this going along those lines. More fun to get into the action than with a building contest RTS.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/65740/

Says controller enabled too.