Dunno who's interested, but this is one of my abandoned secondary projects.... quite a neat concept, and this is the set of notes I written up for it.;
(It's set in a single system, which would have allowed abit of familiarity between locations for the player
. I only ever finished 1 model - the Reshef - although the Solaris only needs docking paths. )
Year 0 -
8 years after Capella, the GTVA has opened the node to Tau Sigma, system in Shivan space. 2 years of bloody conflict have captured the system from the Shivans, making a heavily fortified military base for defending the GTVA. As the GTVA prepares to further attack the Shivan systems, a subspace cataclysm cuts off the link back home... and leaves the Terran 7th and Vasudan 12th fleets facing a Shivan onslaught.
This focuses around the frantic attampts to blockade the system, by accessing the Knossos device connecting it to shivan space, and shutting it down - locking the Shivans out....
As the battered forces stand on the brink of annihilation, a small scout group discovers the ultimate weapon - the Prophet. A millenia old, it has lain dormant in Tau Sigma since the Ancients destruction. As the GTVA struggles to bring the Prophet online and activate it's never before used weapons systems.... or face their own annihilation.
Year 10 -
10 years later, and the Prophet stands guard over Tau Sigma. It's immense firepower, coupled with the repair made over 10 years, are sufficient to prevent the Shivan fleet from trying to enter Tau Sigma. In the depths of the system, the remnants of the GTVA fleets are able to build for the future. As the transports venture out to the site of the cataclysm of 10 years ago, and to the old shipyards of Tau Sigma, they discover something.... the remnants of a GTVI installation and destroyer, left from 10 years ago... and those willing to die to protect its secrets - from the Imperium and the Shivans.
As the remnants of the Fleets - the New Imperium - begin to understand the secrets of the GTVIs' Pathfinder project, they realise that it stands the key to their salvation - or their destruction. If it suceeeds, it can lead home. But it can open the gate to the Shivan mega-destroyers - the ships the Prophet was built to stop - the true Lucifer class.
Year 20 -
10 years on, and the Imperium prepares to activate the Messiah - the first ship to use the GTVIs' technology to open the road home.... as the Shivans get through the Knossos and flood Tau Sigma, seeking the technology to open up the Galaxy to their ultimate weapon. If the Imperium fails to get home and warn the GTVA, the cage the Ancients built to hold the Megadestroyers - the knowledge they sacrificed to protect the future - will stand for nothing.
But their plan fails.... even as the wormhole is opened - the route home - a MegaDestroyer somehow manages to get into the system. With the power to destroy a Terran fleet, there is only one hope..... the Prophet must be sacrificed to save the GTVA.
The gimmick......
(clever bit)
Ship designs and textures evolve over time....
- textures become old, worn.
- GTVA style ships are replaced with the Imperium ships, rapidly increasing in sophisitacation and weaponry after the old manufacturing facilities are captured in Year 10 - the very feel of the ships changes
-The Prophet starts off as a barely functional wreck, only to be rebuilt with Terran components (model changes)
- recognisable regions of space, where the appearance changes over time to reflect events in the story
- the black hole type thingie to represent the cataclysm.
- star colours/ nebulas darkened and tweaked to reflect the darkening of mood.....
- NPC characters to amn cruical battleships.
ships;
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Year 0 (Capella +8)
11 models
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-Terran
-Cruiser (Leviathan successor)
- AWACs Jamming ship
- Interceptor
- stealth fighter
- Ursa Mk.II heavy bomber)
-Vasudan
- Cruiser
-Destroyer / Carrier
- Assault/ Space Superiority
- stealth fighter
- Ursa Mk.II heavy bomber)
-Shivan
- SCv Scylla
-Other
- Prophet (damaged)
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Year 10 (Capella +18)
8 models
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-Imperium (T-V)
- Refitted Fenris class
- Control & Command Installation
- Repair Installation
- Light fighter (cheap & crap)
- explorer transports
-Black Nights(?)(GTVI / rebels)
-GTVI dreadnaught (Polaris)
- Black Ops fighters
- Research installation
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Year 20 (Capella +28)
9 models
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- Imperium
- Messiah - wormhole opening ship
- Stealth fighter / bomber
- Advanced bomber
- Corvette
- destroyer (altered Heca?)
- T-V destroyer
-Shivan
- Mega Destroyer
- advanced fighter class
- advanced bomber class
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SFX
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New system nebulas
Subspace cataclysm background / model
Planetary models
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Weapons
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Mega beams - Prophet & Shivan MegaDestroyer
5-10 new fighter primaries
4-8 new fighter secondaries
Advanced capship laser turrets
Improved fushion mortar
