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1. Director -Patrick
2. Writers - Jager, Fearra, Skyfox, Anic, SA, brookeview, Vegeta, Patrick, Mag
3. Graphic Artists- Fearra, Skyfox, SA, Patrick
4. Engineers - Fearra, Anic, SA, brookeview, Vegeta, Patrick, Mag
5. Programmers - Fearra, SA, brookeview, Vegeta, Patrick
6. Musicians - SA, Vegeta
7. Testers - Jager, Fearra, Anic, SA, brookeview, Vegeta, Patrick, Skyfox, Talon Karrde
EF-Global Republic of Earth-GRE Ares-style ships. Normal ares sizes. Ares-speed hyperdrive.
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A misunderstanding during a minor conflict, caused Russia to launch an ICBM at India, starting a nuclear war which left much of the developed world a radioactive wasteland. The following economic recession caused a global depression lasting almost a decade. The remaining nations formed a loose economic confederacy to fight the recession- the GRE. The leaders of the GRE were of course not satisfied with their weak economic power, and the sovereignty of the nations has slowly eroded and the GRE took over. The Republics ministries of Economy and Defense now control most of the power in their respective sectors and the GRE military have taken care of any holdouts to absolute GRE power. Several recent amendments to the Republic charter have had the disturbing effect of concentrating power into the hands of a privileged few...
CF1-Syn'iena Faction-SF slow, tough, ships, one with an optional siege mode that takes 25-45 seconds to activate, and is extremely powerful once completed. Ships are large sized.(80x80 - 192x192 ?) No hyperdrive. Weapons short range but flak style, heavy cannons, some weak missiles.
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Declared their independence from the GRE in 2872 AD. The main home planet of their system is called Syn'iena witch in their language means safe place.
CF2-The Free Worlds of Jados-FWJ Low shields, but fast and equipped with long-range guided weapons. Also small. (24x24 - 96-96? ) hyperdrive
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Declared their independence from the GRE in 3590 AD. The main planet in the Proxima system was named after Jados P. Anderson. The crew owed him their lives, for the colony ship #2 New Horizons would have exploded if he hadn't crawled back into the engine section and manually shut the reactors down. However, Anderson received too much radiation from being too close to the nuclear reactors, and died. He sacrificed his life so that his crew could live. They named the planet in his honor.
Barbarians-(unnamed) Decently fast, very little shielding (maybe a quarter of the norm) and very big guns. They also have a large variety of transports.
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The barbarians were once a pirate group, but their organization was so effective that they began aiming for bigger and bigger targets. Now it raids cities and stations, and occasionally convoys. The barbarians let lone ships be, as they don't consider them worth the effort. Their raids are well organized and rarely fail. They've also invented cruise missiles, which are actually ships with warp drives. Upon production, they fly for their target and detonate. They are very powerful, and are often used by the barbarians for support fire during battles.
CF3-Centaurian Peoples Republic- CPR Have some fast, tough ships with powerful short range guns and no cloaks, and some slower ships with plenty of long range support weapons. So their up-close ships would duke it out with enemy fleets, while their support ships rained fire in from a distance. The support ships should have more powerful guns, compared to their prices, but ones that aren't very good for close-up combat. Their support ships should have cloaks.
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Inhabiting the richest planet in the system, the Mycenians were in the CPRs way. Forty years after the colonists arrived in the system, the Mycenians turned down a treaty that would have made them slaves to all intents and purposes. Two weeks later, CPR troops attacked Mycenia. The campaign was brutal and swift. The technology of the Mycenians was roughly equivalent to 2001 AD Earths, far less advanced than the 22nd century technology of the CPR. The standing Mycenian forces were quickly destroyed, and the resource-rich equator of the planet was rapidly fortified against any assaults on the strip-mining operations there.
P-National Fighters for Free Trade-NFT Fast, low shields, powerful weapons, and big(to hold captured cargo) ( 64x64 - 144x144) no hyperdrive(havent managed to steal one)
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Pirates are in all systems. One pirate group realized that a probe, when designed correctly, could withstand the forces of FTL and travel to other systems. They had also been developing communications for coordinated attacks and such, so they sent probes out, with the plans for their interstellar communications devices, to the most likely places for pirate outposts in the other colonized systems. The probes were all eventually found, and the communications established. All pirate groups, from then on, freely shared technology, effective ship designs, and piracy tactics. They also worked together when the humans still on Earth invented useable FTL and spread to other systems.
Aliens-Centaurians Old CF3 tech, bent of extermination of humankind for revenge of their early slavery to CF3
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They also group all humans into one, and consider them all dangerous and warlike. When they see ships of other human groups, they attack them, as they think that they are just the same as CF3. Also, their ships are slightly worse than CF3's, as their tech was captured a while ago, and new versions of it have come out since.
Miners Union:Go on strike in Sirus. They don't have enough protection from pirates. The military is sent in to break up the strike, and things go violent. Ships are very maneuverable, but not fast, they're tough but have weak guns, no stealth, but instead mine asteroids. These extra resources means that they can mass-produce ships much better, lack of stealth means they can only hide by staying near asteroids. Their transports are just rejigged astrominers. there are a variety of different miners. They also have tractor beams (for holding asteroids in place) on some of their ships.
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It's time for a new challenge.
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/benedwards/.cv/benedwards/Public/Ares1.2/StarsAreFire%3AC4.sit-binhex.hqx")The Stars Are Fire(/url)-A TC for Ares
...And so the human race reached for the stars, unknowing of the dangers that awaited them...
(This message has been edited by Skyfox (edited 01-25-2002).)
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