My overuse of the word "ship" aside, is there actually any Colony Wars/WCIV/Prophecy stuff available? Those games had a lot of designs I really liked.
Probably you should PM Novachen in that case.
I agree, but it may be out of Act 0, it will appear in Act 1 or later. You might be referring to some races other than the Battura, Vishnans, Bosconians and Sadeen.
Anyway, it's three months to Act 0's release date. FREDding is progressing as always.
bryan is it a coincidence that the release date for shattered stars part zero happens to also be the release date of mortal engines the major motion picture
In some way, yes. It is because for two reasons. Firstly, it's set in the same universe as it is trying to merge that into the FS universe, along with the 2004 re-imagined BSG (see Diaspora), and by a lesser extent, the UGSF series (Galaxian3, Starblade, Star Luster, Bosconian and Star Ixiom). Secondly, there's a proposition: If the major Mortal Engines motion picture's sequels happening, Part One will be set centuries after the events of Act Zero/Part Zero. If the Mortal Engines movie sequels don't wind up happening, the first part will be set shortly after this demo, but it depends. Let's see.
Well, we have at least three different time eras from the Wing Commander Universe with complete fleets (I-II, III-IV, Prophecy-SO) with its own models for FS2... aswell we there are complete Starlancer and some Freelancer Fleets, too.
And many B5, Star Trek and Colony Wars Ships are also available for FSO
And also there is this BSG stuff.
So i think, that there are unlimited possibilites for own races already .
And reused fleets were already used for new races in some other mods like Dusk Wars, League of Free Worlds etc. before.
I know that Wing Commander Saga has pretty much all the WCIII ships and a few WCIV ships, and Woolie Wool recently posted a bunch of WCI and WCII-era ships, but this is the first I've heard of a complete set of WCIV ships or any Prophecy ships. I haven't seen any Colony Wars ships, either. Do you have any links handy?
Not yet. However, I've got a load of UIMS and Battura ships at the moment. Most of the UIMS ships are based on Galaxian3, Starblade and Star Ixiom. Some of them from Diaspora/BSG. Some of them are unique. As for the Battura, they are from Star Ixiom. I guess some guy will take note of this and make a post about this on Dragon's Lair Fans forums.
As for FREDding, Missions 1 to 2 are moved to Missions 3 to 4 to make way for easy missions disguised as training missions to help get players to know more about the mod, the universe, etc. There are a lot of work done on Shivan/UIMS hud gauges. Other than that, nothing at the moment, and I'm on track to release this demo by December.
Why are you so bent on trying to cram seemingly every sci-fi property ever into the same continuity? Have you ever considered all these stories are separate for a reason?
This is an epilogue to the FreeSpace saga. Blue Planet is merely a logical conclusion to it. And the 2004 re-imagined BSG (of which the Diaspora is based on) was since revealed to have took place more than 150,000 years before the present day. Plus, I wanted to answer some of the
questions about the Cylons at the end of the series finale: What happened to the newly liberated Centurions? What happened to the Raiders? How long has the cycle been going? Did an advanced race of humans and/or cylons discover independently evolved humans on other worlds, such as Kobol, before? Could these have been the Lords of Kobol, whose conflict with humans was caused by seeing their own mistakes repeated? Did Lee's decision to stop the construction of what could have been the new City of the Gods stop the cycle?
These are the questions I wanted to answer. The UIMS may be a perfect answer to three of the questions.
As for the other three, they must have something to do with FS1 Alpha 1's, Admiral Aken Bosch's comments and the Blue Planet tech room description of the "Great Darkness".
FS1 Alpha 1 says of an advanced race of humans and/or cylons discover independently evolved humans on other worlds, such as Kobol, before:
Without the Shivans, someone would have discovered the Ancients in their infancy, and eliminated them, just surely as they eliminated countless billions of others.
Similarly, Admiral Bosch says, speaking of a future species (the mod I'm focusing on right now) and a cycle, as well as civilizations:
How close did we come to being a footnote in the history of a future species that would happen upon our ruins ten thousand years from now? Would they indulge in the fiction of their own immortality until the Shivans came for them, and how long had this gone on?
What if there had been countless races, stretching back into infinity and like the nine cities of Troy, each civilization had been built on the rubble of the one that came before, each annihilated by the Shivans.
Due to a longer time scale between BSG and FS, I consider all these stories are separate, chronologically.