Eternal silence would be a really really bad game to liken this to. Eternal silence is very basic space combat, there's shitloads of much more advanced space sims and it looks like this is where those devs are taking the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evochron_Renegades Evochron was pretty good. There's more, I cba doing soemthing you can google for your own lazy ass.
"The Specialists was created by Filippo "Morfeo" De Luca & Lorenzo "John_Matrix" Pasini" -Wikipedia "Filippo De Luca: Co-Director, Engine/Game Programmer, Designer, 2D/Effects Artist. Lorenzo Pasini: Co-Director, Business Manager, Designer, 3D Artist. Michele De Luca: Musician, Sound Artist, Designer. Collaborators: Andrew Lee: Debut teaser editing." Their site. YES THIS WILL BE AWESOME AKIMBO SPACE CRUISERS
Yeah, Naumachia looks pretty awesome. But then again, I'm a massive Freespace nerd. This looks like it will be much more high-energy than even Freespace, though.