Yes like battletech sourcebooks. Everything you need as far as Force Composition and organization, systems controlled, and businesses will be presented to you. In each source book would ships specific for each realm, the general layout of the books is finished, we just need to write the books. As far as the ships specific for each realm go, the descriptions given there will also be the tech descriptions in the ships table, actually, that was how this whole thing got started. A 400 year history for each realm will be needed, The Demo and Episode 1 take place in 2764. Episode 6 will take place in 3060. So between each Episode the source books will be redone with the new histories added, the new ships specific, etc etc etc.
After Epsiode 4, a new line of source books will also be needed, but that's another story for another time.
Mission designers is just what it sounds like....people to come with the **** we will be building. These are important because of the non linear nature of the mod.
The abreviations are for the four main groups of the mod.....The GTVA has created principalities, and in the end, the GTVA is no more, but the four principalities are......
TEC Terran Coalition
VAC Vasudan Commonwealth
LIR League of Interplanetary Races
VAI Vasudan Imperium