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http://empireatwar.filefront.com/file/ISD_Vs_Venator;78846 The first, last, and only star destroyer model you'll ever need to find. Ask him tho, if you can use it.

Well, its fixed. The AI just ended up kicking my ass since I wasn't paying attention. They actually build mines. Glitch fixed with a bit of LUA. Now the imps and rebs need something to balance out with the power of the mandos...darn I hate balancing.

This is quite a unique take on an SW mod. Gives you a lot of creative freedom.

Turn up your graphics? I dunno. They were green for me on my old computer because its Graphics card was too wimpy to handle the shaders.

There's nothing wrong with adding new units.

true, true. hope that's not what you really have to do in-game lol.

Ah this took much less time than expected. And I just got an idea. Since I'm not very good at explaining visual descriptions (and I'm not good at picturing things from descriptions), I'm going to post some links to the various ships and people that appear in the story...when I find the time. Well, here's part 2 and 3 of Chapter 3. posted in a separate post because um... its kinda big. *** Date: 14:00 Tsuaga 54, 7052 Location: Surface, Aief, Aief System Stepping outside the main the rear exit into the center hastily-constructed defense, Au'skas surveyed the surroundings. The small valley sheltered the crash site quite well from three sides, leaving only the open valley floor as a viable landing zone for then enemy. This is where we'll make a stand, and where we'll be able to get close enough to see how they look like. The small force of soldiers from the Finder manned the turrets and took cover behind the rocks and set-up walls as the first lander dropped off enemy soldiers and fire suppression fire from its light plasma batteries. The call went up to return fire, and the Finder's rear cannons as well as the machine-gun turrets unleashed a barrage of fire at the unloading craft. A major shell from the Finder's main cannon struck the open frontal unloading section of the craft and threw the departing soldiers into panic - some jumped, some took cover, while others were shredded by defensive fire. The dropship took several more hits and crashed onto the valley floor as smoldering wreckage. The second dropships took shots to its exposed interior and joined the first as a smoking wreckage at the valley floor. "Good work! Gun turret 2-1a through 2-3b pick off the stragglers, otherwise continue fire on those dropships." As the thrid and fourth dropships neared the ground, they reversed their facing so the opening faced the opoosite direction, placing the dropship itself between the soldiers and the defense guns, protecting the soldiers from the Finder's cannons. "They adapted quickly enough. Change of strategy. Focus on the troops that they deploy. It doesn't seem we'll be able to exploit their dropship's weakness further. Everyone, cover! It's charging its main plasma cannon!" The dropships unleashed a wave of plasma fire at the entrenchment and smothered half the turrets and troops under a wave of superheated gasses. Sending Gevran soldiers diving for more solid cover behind the large monolithic rocks that covered the valley floor. The turrets that remained blazed and spewed lead at the charging enemy troops. As the first wave of enemy troops hit cover from the suppressive fire, the real battle began. Both sides were surprisingly evenly-matched - waves of troops landing and taking cover from the suppressive fire. At this rate, we're going to run out of ammunition before we can get off this place. There has to be another weakness we can exploit to gain the advantage. Au'skas surveyed the scene from behind a large menhir. There! A ledge! I can use that to get behind the enemy. Drawing his shotgun, Au'skas made his way to the ledge and too cover behind a low natural rock wall. As he made his way along the ledge,a dropship flew up near where he was. Leaping from the ledge, Au'skas took hold of the dropship's platform and pulled himself inside. It was empty, save for a single pilot in the cockpit. This should take me up to the ship that's unloading troops. Au'skas checked his belt for the detonation charges and smiled. This isn't going to be pretty for them. As the dropship neared the hangar of the large cruiser hanging in the sky, Au'skas set the charges and waited for the dropship to land in the hangar. As the dropship touched town, Au'skas threw the charges onto the nearby hangar wall and went into the cockpit of the dropship. "Yo." Au'skas said as the blew the head off the Zuyaer pilot. Throwing the corpse aside Au'skas stared the the incomprehensible symbols on the control panels and sighed. Right. Language barriers. If this button does what I think it does... The dropship's loading bay door slammed shut, crushing several Zuyains as they boarded the craft to be taken to the surface and sending the few that were onboard into confusion. Now to get out of this hangar before it blows. Au'skas grabbed what appeared to be the method of controlling the ship and pushed it, sending the dropship lurching forwards and into open air. Hearing noises, he drew is magneblade. The confused soldiers in the hold now clued in to the fact that someone else was piloting the dropship and headed towards the cockpit, where they were cut down by Au'skas. An explosion sounded behind him and he turned the dropship around to see smoke belching out of the hangar that the dropship had just left. Au'skas pointed the craft to where the Finder had crash-landed and strated descent. As the dropship made its descent, Au'skas familiraized himself with the various controls of the ship including the targeting controls. Ah, another dropship. Time to give them a surprise. Taking aim at the other dropship, Au'skas hit the fire button and his dropship unleashed a volley of searing plasma fire at the unsuspecting victim, riddiling it with holes and sending it spirialing down towards the surface. These things can't even resist their own cannons! As more dropships flew past, Au'skas fired on each one in succesion and destroyed them, leaving a chain of destroyed hulls on the valley floor. With the last dropship downed, Au'skas landed his dropship by the Finder and hopped out. "Welcome back, captian." "Thanks." Au'skas walked back to the beeping comm station. '[Establishing Connection...Please Wait]' '[Link Engaged]' "Captain Au'skas of the Modified Exploration Ship Finder, this is Minister-General Rishyk of the Council of Elders and fleet command. We have arrived. Standby for retrival." "It's much appriciated, Minister-General. We'll try and hold out till then." "We've gotten the technical data on that scout cruiser. Appears like it can also serve as a high-altitude bombardment platform. Watch out." "We will." '[Link Disengaged]' "Captain, you might want to take a look at that." "Ah. Oh bother," Au'skas said as he gazed up at the glowing heavy plasma batteries on the cruiser, "Take cover!" The entire ground force of the dove and took cover behind various rocks and outcroppings as the valley was blanketed with plasma fire. Those that were unlucky were caught by the blast and disintergrated, those that were lucky saw the heavy plasma batteries on the cruiser explode under heavy fire from an odd looking ship descending upon it. *** Date: 16:50 Tsuaga 54, 7052 Location: Surface, Aief, Aief System. "Everyone all right down here?" Rishyk said as he leapt the two feet from the hangar of his ship to the floor. "Most of use are still in one piece, thanks to you." Au'skas shook hands with the elder Gevran. "Actually, no. Thanks to yourself. Without the technology on the derelict you dragged back home, we'd never have been able to replicate the mass-driver technology found on this here ship." "You give me too much credit, Minister-General." Au'skas replied. "Ah, yes, the projector mechanism on the Flare-III wreckage you were so keen on seeing repaired is right here! Since you were the one pushing for it s completion, I guess its right to let you have it and test it first." The elder gevran turned around and produced a disk shaped object with a hole in the center. "We've even had it rigged so it can play our disks." "Again, you are too kind, Minister-General." "Well, we got a few more Zuayer scum to wipe out over this system. So I'm going to drag your ship back out into space. Everyone best get aboard my ship for the time being." Well, I'm glad to be finally getting off this hellhole. All I need to do now is to find someplace secret to veiw the contents of that disk, now that the player has been restored. The time will come though...

Necro-Bump again. This story is taking waaaay longer than I expected, since I had it all planned out already. But, nevertheless, its taking forever. Chapter Three (PART 1)...gotta finish part 2 of CH3 today, and start CH4. ============================== Chapter Three: Deathtrap Date: 13:40 Tsuaga 54, 7052 Location: Bridge, M/ExS Finder, Crash-Landed, Aief, Aief System "Is everone alright?" "It appears so, captian. Our engine block is down and our nullspace trraverser damaged. The forward missile tubes and cannons are blocked." "Can you give me an update on where we are on the surface?" "Somewhere in the mountainous northern hemisphere, wedged between two mountains at the end of a valley." "Is the communication working?" "Its up, but we can't get a lock of our own position to report." "Open a connection with main fleet command." "Yessir." '[Establishing Connection...Please Wait]' '[Link Engaged]' "Minister-General Rishyk of the council of elders and fleet command, this is Captain Au'skas of the Exploration ship Finder. We have been crashed onto the surface of Aief and have a battle report." "Good. Send it." "sending now..." "Recieved, thank you for the technical data on their cruiser. We can now have scientists work of finding a weakness from the data you provided. We have dispatched a second fleet carrying the one of the new weapons found at Irii-2, they should be able to conduct an surface sweep for your ship as soon as they finish dealing with the scout cruiser and any reinfocrements it may be getting." "Thank you." '[Link Disengaged]' "Sir, scanner reading shows a fleet of unidentified ships has arrived." "Is it ours, or theirs?" "From the velocity and size, it would be there's. One of them is splitting off from the main fleet and heading for the surface." "Deploy a perimeter of turrets and bunkers around the rear of the ship, and get the technicians to repair the hangars. If they find us, we're going to have to hold them off until either our fleet arrives or our engines are back online!" "The one that broke off has launched several ships roughly the size of our ship. They appear to be headed for us." "They're probably carrying landing forces, I want you to get those defenses up now! After hearing the report from that cruiser we damaged, they might be more prepared for us now." "We're on it." "I'll meet you outside." Au'skas headed for the armory and retrieved his triple-barrel shotgun, magneblade and a few detonation charges. He prefered to use the ranged weapons that was used by the marines before the space age, but the new close-combat magneblades proved effective in the simulations. This would be the first time they would be put to the test against an enemy assault force of unknown strength. Things were simpler when all we fought was each other, but at least now, our race is unified by a common goal...

Thank you for finally killing off a major character. But noooo not mara. I agree with all of AT-At's points tho

pssst broken link.

I've uploaded the partially-completed warlords mas conversion to filefront. If anyone objects, I'll take it off. This is NOT done by me. AT ALL. I repeat, I have NOTHING to do with this, just rehosting it. Codeuser did them. Download both parts, or you'll be missing the icons and possibly a few textures lolz. http://files.filefront.com/Warlords+Models+Part+Arar/;7848200;;/fileinfo.html http://files.filefront.com/Warlords+Models+Part+Brar/;7848242;;/fileinfo.html Gone Gone and Gone by request.

Ok let me rephrase. The sabotage ability requires a full system spy that allows you to see ground structures. In the base game,... For the empire, its the probe droid. For the rebels, its R2D2 and C3PO. For the consortium, its corruption. So, yes, no corruption = no sabotage, unless you gave something else the full system spy ability. I sabotaged without corruption by giving defilers the full system spy ability, thus allowing them to sabotage off the at, regardless of corruption, but then, they couldn't corrupt...

Hmmm, i forgot to post here after I played it. The camera is waaaay to sensitive, I can't zoom up on any of the ships without overshooting by a mile (I got rly dizzy). Some of the features like directly controlling the ship is fun. though it might be too much to micro when there's an actual major battle... The plane-flying thing's nice tho.

Yea, that's a nice engine. But still, why is it still stormtroopers?

Nope. I've sabotaged without corruption before. All you need is a system spy that can reveal the planet's structures, though the ZC lack anything of the sort, so they rely on corruption, which does reveal all.

Wait, mine are 2x e-geforce 7600GS Plays everything on high, no lag...then again, I did blow quite a bit of money...

i thought a missing bracket would show up as a syntax error on the built-in XML parser...

Well, yea you can make them immune to effects like racketeering cash and stuff, but you can't make them immune to sabotage.

Didn't do that yet. the problem still is that the mando AI refuses to build mines!

Oh that 5 minute long thing was annoying. so many ads! they cut after each ep and show 5 mins of ads. That was REALLY stupid.

I think I have two of those...

The skin is colored blue. The tan-ish lines are the alpha, though you can see them at all because the base skin is black. lol. I should fix the alpha on that and in cons interdictor. EDIT: I have found the source of this problem. I have (hopefully) fixed it. The thing was, I forgot to put a line the the BuildRefineriesSpace plan LUA and as a result they don't build mines. The upgrade LUA states that when they accumulate X credits to upgrade tech. BUT, since they don't have any mines, they don't get enough credits to reach that amount since the same LUA tells them to build ships every now and then. Now that I fixed the no-mine-build problem, hopefully they will tech up to capitals. (the most they ever tech up to was acquiring venators. When I built mines and left my hard AI ally alone, it eventually teched up to capital ships and ended up kicking the other two hard AI's (censored) since they were still spamming venators and interceptor frigs. Update later... EDIT 2: gah, now they're even more stupid than before! They tried to rush me with Ion Vettes, Crusaders, Vipers and Light Frigs. They blew all their money on those too. lolz.so at the end, all they did was send their free units at me :S

Good choice....well, actually that's debateable, but... Have fun while you're here.

yea, pretty much...well, the actual corrupting thing Many things can be tweaked like how it affects different factions and stuff. Oh, well, you can MAKE a new corruption map work fine...its just that it takes a looooot of LUA to get it to work (more than I understand). Didn't z3r0x make a new one from scratch?

Reskinned FoC models... so...petroglyph made them. Hue/Saturation in photoshop is FTW. i just noticed that the mando symbol on the interceptor frig is upside down...ooops. Better go fix. Didn't eveyone use CR90's? - from the empire to rebels to random space pirates.