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Federation and Empire

Federation and Empire

This had begun as a collection of starships based upon the Star Fleet Universe and other sources and has now evolved into the development of a full complete mod.

What you can expect to see:
9 custom major races to choose:
United Federation of Planets; Klingon Empire; Romulan Star Empire; Kzinti Hegemony; Lyran Star Empire; Hydran Kingdom; Gorn Confederation; Tholian Holdfast; and the Interstellar Concordium.

8 Custom minor races.

Custom technology trees and weapons set up for each race.
Custom player useable shipstyles for every race.

2 Custom Immense Maps: "Federation and Empire" and "The General War"

Custom Campaign: "ISC Invasion"

Starship sets are being developed now and available for use here:

http://library.galciv2.com/index.aspx?a=2985422

I gladly accept ideas for this mod and collect ships that you make to add to the ship sets. Feel free to share your ideas. I'd love to see your screenshots as well.

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Reply #126 Top
Ronin I have been thinking and wanted to ask you what your thoughts were. According to the old SFB game. The Romulan's only had two fighter types. If you use the Z-1 for a Romulan. Do you want only one more made for them. Plus, the Gorn never built fighters. But just bought some of the larger ones from the Fed's. Should I go and try to make some home grown ones?
Reply #127 Top
Actually they used used federation fighers with mercenary pilots, who were a smaller lizzard race that happened to be members of the Federation. There name escapes me right now, but they loved it since they felt they were kin to the Gorn, and the Gorn were cool with it since they are on average 9 feet tall and there was no fast fighter that could be built in a practical manner for them to fly.
Reply #128 Top
Okay....here is a home grown Gorn Fighter. Let me know what you guys think of it.
Reply #129 Top
Looks nice. The only Gorn ships I even remember where in the FASA Star Trek game and they werent to much in that. Where do you get the basic ideas for what you do? They do look super!
Reply #130 Top
I real like the Gorn fighter, pretty much what I though there fighter would look like assuming they had a standard fighter of their own.

I have a few concepts based on what I was able to get on ship designs in Federation and Empires.

Here is the Klingon Tug/Cargo ship




Here is the ZY Klingon fighter.




Here is the D5 war cruiser, Its the design based on the F&E game not the one in the show Enterprise, this one is built after the D7 and is supposed to be a faster lighter version, don't ask me why its a lower number maybe the D's are based on size not model number?




Finally here is the D6 Battle cruiser.




Like I said, Ronin I wouldn't have even gotten back to designing ships againn had your mod not inspired me to play the regular game again. If you want them their yours, if not I can totally understand you have plenty of ships here already.

Reply #131 Top
Well....I guess being a retired Air Force guy helps a little. Was a creative kid. Loved to make drawings of spaceships. planes, ships and other things. As a teen, loved to build models. The spent a lifetime of playing boardgames, Miniatures, and computer games. Of Star Trek, Battlestar, and various military games. Guess the rest of it is just in the blood.
Reply #132 Top
I vote for the D-16 as the starting Klingon Flagship.
Reply #133 Top
Well....I guess being a retired Air Force guy helps a little. Was a creative kid. Loved to make drawings of spaceships. planes, ships and other things. As a teen, loved to build models. The spent a lifetime of playing boardgames, Miniatures, and computer games. Of Star Trek, Battlestar, and various military games. Guess the rest of it is just in the blood.
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Former Air Force myself . . . AF Ronin.

Aggie, I'd like larger sceenshots if I could.



Reply #134 Top
I have know idea why they were so small but I got it now.







Reply #135 Top
Hey AF_Ronin since you gotten such a high response from this you should go over to http://i-mod-productions.com/ to make this into a real mod.You'll get gigs of space to work with and with so many post you should have no problem with recruting trust me you'll be happy that you did.WWW Link
Reply #136 Top
I'll use your Freighter and the ZY Fighter
Reply #137 Top
Hey AF_Ronin since you gotten such a high response from this you should go over to http://i-mod-productions.com/ to make this into a real mod.You'll get gigs of space to work with and with so many post you should have no problem with recruting trust me you'll be happy that you did.WWW Link
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I will make this into a real mod once the ships are done. Thanks. And I do plan to work with I-MOD eventually as I have already recieved excellent encouragement from you guys.
Reply #138 Top
Ok here is the freighter I made borrow design from Aggiejohn.

Called it the G-7 Honorable Trade class.

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Had to make up a mining ship from scrap so here is a Penal Mining Ship the S-10 Rura Penthe:

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Reply #139 Top
Neat, thanks for the nod on the ships too, I can send you the fighter if you want but really its not a overly complicated design, The Klingon fighter design is simple and easy to mass produce, according to the F&E history.

Hay Ronin, also I was thinking, a while back someone made a Star trek the animated series mod, it wasn't much but it could give you a jump start on race images and logos, might save some time.
Reply #140 Top
Neat, thanks for the nod on the ships too, I can send you the fighter if you want but really its not a overly complicated design, The Klingon fighter design is simple and easy to mass produce, according to the F&E history.Hay Ronin, also I was thinking, a while back someone made a Star trek the animated series mod, it wasn't much but it could give you a jump start on race images and logos, might save some time.
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Seeking permission at the moment to be allowed to use the actual pics owned by Star Fleet Universe games.

Anyway I am posting the Klingon 2nd edition pack right now. I just tested the Player Useable shipstyle:

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As you can see these are the 3 starting vessels. A D-16 for your surveyship(note that there is no survery module visible however it will still survey), S-10 mining ship; and G-13 Colonyship.

Reply #141 Top
SWEET! Ronin.....now that you are done with the Klignon update. What race are you going to work on next? Thought that maybe, might make a few ships or fighters for you to look over.
Reply #142 Top
Gorn and Romulan ships please. Probably going to start on Gorn next.

This was the final list of uploaded Klingon ships:

Tiny Classes:
ZY Starfighter
Small Classes:
K-22 Bird of Prey; and K-17 Deathstalker
Medium Classes:
D-2 Stingtongue; D-11 One Wing; D-16 Swiftwind; L-9 Saber; and L-42 Great Bird
Large Classes:
D-4 Predator; D-7 Painbringer; and D-32 Stronger Bird
Huge Classes:
B-1 Kahless; B-10 Invincible; and L-13 Fatman
Cargo Classes:
G-6 Catapult; G-7 Honorable Trade; G-13 Qapla; S-10 Rura Penthe; T-5 Throne Seeker; and
T-12 Carrier of Doom
Reply #143 Top
If I ever post a race pack and you still wanted to submit something to me that's still okay.

I want to add expansion packs.
Reply #144 Top
Ronin......Okay, If you want to use the Z-1 Zoran as a Romulan fighter. Go ahead. I will see about making another fighter to go with it. Also, I had and idea of a Gorn Constructor ship. It would look a lot like the Brontosaurus-Stegosaurus in its setup. Could even do a Miner Ship version from it too. What other Gorn ships would you like to see?
Reply #145 Top
Well I....when I saw Ronin's Shuttle craft. I just could not resist trying my hand at a SWAC Shuttle. Hope you like it. What you don't get to see is the animation that I added to it.
Reply #146 Top
Nice, go ahead and send any Gorn you like.
Reply #147 Top
I had just downloaded the first version of the Federation ships. I built a few ships. Not sure if Ronin would want to add this later on. But here is the Gettysburg, A destroyer that I built.
Reply #148 Top
Okay...will work on those ships then.
Reply #149 Top
Exhausted from the Federation at the moment. Think I have like 26 ships posted currently. Still eventually I want to add an expansion pack that will include: fighters; more ships; and mobile starbases.

Ronin I have been thinking and wanted to ask you what your thoughts were. According to the old SFB game. The Romulan's only had two fighter types. If you use the Z-1 for a Romulan. Do you want only one more made for them. Plus, the Gorn never built fighters. But just bought some of the larger ones from the Fed's. Should I go and try to make some home grown ones?
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I know Lyrans got their fighters from Klingons and Gorn got theirs from Federation but I want individual race fighters. You might play a game with the Gorn but no Federation, how do you explain having human starfighters?

Reply #150 Top
Okay decided not to do too much for the Gorn. They need some tiny ships and atleast 6 Cargo type vessels. Here are the tiny ones I'm including.

First the Gorn shuttlecraft: Gecko
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Gorn Starfighter: Claw
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And since according to SFU the Federation sold the Gorn some fighters here is the Federation F-18 Hornet II now designated G-18 Serpent
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Now for my cargo ships.