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Mods / [0.97.XX] Battlefleets of the Gothic Sector (Space Dwerfs!)
« on: March 01, 2020, 04:32:38 AM »
Current Version: 0.5.2
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Download Linky thing:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ysakg71tail0hmh/Battlefleets_of_the_Gothic_Sector_V0.5.2.zip/file
Compatible with Nexerelin
Yes that sector...
(Disclaimer: I don't have an artist's brain so my art skillz are poo. Let's see what happens!)
A mod to bring Battlefleet Gothic to StarSector. There was a mod to do just this in an old thread that I found. Looked quite advanced really but it seemed to fizzle out. Shame. Anywhoo I thought that BFG would be a fun addition to the Modaverse. There is a bunch of old top down artwork out there that I could use but instead I decided to build this from scratch. This post will be updated as new content comes into being. Below is the lore of Battlefleets:
The First Wave:
Spoiler
The 14th Battlegroup was reeling from a recent skirmish with a group of independents in the sector. An ambush by a mercenary pirate fleet joined the battle and the 14th suffered a loss of one of their prized Paragons. Strategic assessment of the situation by the faction's analysts show that a sufficiently large force could be assembled to overthrow Hegemony and 14th control.
Desperate for a way to contact the Dominion, the 14th's engineers came up with a plan...
One of the dormant ring gates was modified with a large array and thrusters and the perimeter was permeated with hyperspace transition engines. The project took several years and the expense was high, but in the end an entire ring gate was transitioned into hyperspace. Once there, the vast network of thrusters positioned the gate near one of the hyperspace storms. Experimental quantum resonators attached to the ring began to absorb the poorly understood energies.
With a great awe among the those that were on site to witness the event. The ring gate began to activate. But not in the same way as historical data stated it should. With a violent flash the gate ripped itself open. Unknown energies poured out of the gate, destroying several nearby scientific vessels. The 14th pulled their assets back beyond the destructive energies pouring from the gate. Probes with fired into it but those that avoiding the strange energy hit the plane of the gate and shattered upon impact. Debris from the wrecked probes was then thrown back into hyperspace. At this time it appeared the activation of the gate was a failure. Instead it had created some kind of unstable, unconnected wormhole. The powerdown sequence was activated...
...and the gate failed to respond. Instead of shutting down, the gate continued to draw in hyperspace storm energy. What was worse, the stabilization thrusters on the gate itself had begun to fail. Impossibly, the gate appeared to began drifting toward the nearest hyperspace storm.
And then... It happened. With a surge from the gate, the turbulent surface surged as a vessel ripped through and entered hyperspace. It was of a type and classification hereto unheard of in any historical database. Long, with a heavy armored prow and a large amount of weapons mounted on the side of the ship. Hails were broadcast and a transmission was received:
"This is Captain Thurben Wyl of the Emperor's Grace, state your intent unknown vessel".
A short comm exchange then occurred where the newcomer claimed to have come from somewhere called "The Gothic Sector" and that the transition thru the gate had killed both their navigator and caused irreparable damage to their Gellar field emitters, whatever that was supposed to mean.
At this time the gate's drift suddenly accelerated and drifted into the hyperspace storm. The storm flashed, causing every vessel's sensors within a few light years to overload and reboot. Upon coming back online, every scan of the gate found the gate to have vanished.
The newcomer was escorted to the nearest star, where their ship was retrofitted with the necessary equipment to travel in hyperspace. Representatives from the 14th and Hegemony were present to find out more of the newcomer.
"We were part of a screening force chasing a chaos fleet, we were following their wake. And then we wound up here."
"And who is this...Chaos? You where the first and only one to come through the gate."
"That simply means they haven't come through yet."
At this time a scout runner ship entered the system and broadcast on the emergency channel. The lost gate had been found again, over thirty light years away in the center of another hyperspace storm. And something else was coming out of it...
Imperium System:
Desperate for a way to contact the Dominion, the 14th's engineers came up with a plan...
One of the dormant ring gates was modified with a large array and thrusters and the perimeter was permeated with hyperspace transition engines. The project took several years and the expense was high, but in the end an entire ring gate was transitioned into hyperspace. Once there, the vast network of thrusters positioned the gate near one of the hyperspace storms. Experimental quantum resonators attached to the ring began to absorb the poorly understood energies.
With a great awe among the those that were on site to witness the event. The ring gate began to activate. But not in the same way as historical data stated it should. With a violent flash the gate ripped itself open. Unknown energies poured out of the gate, destroying several nearby scientific vessels. The 14th pulled their assets back beyond the destructive energies pouring from the gate. Probes with fired into it but those that avoiding the strange energy hit the plane of the gate and shattered upon impact. Debris from the wrecked probes was then thrown back into hyperspace. At this time it appeared the activation of the gate was a failure. Instead it had created some kind of unstable, unconnected wormhole. The powerdown sequence was activated...
...and the gate failed to respond. Instead of shutting down, the gate continued to draw in hyperspace storm energy. What was worse, the stabilization thrusters on the gate itself had begun to fail. Impossibly, the gate appeared to began drifting toward the nearest hyperspace storm.
And then... It happened. With a surge from the gate, the turbulent surface surged as a vessel ripped through and entered hyperspace. It was of a type and classification hereto unheard of in any historical database. Long, with a heavy armored prow and a large amount of weapons mounted on the side of the ship. Hails were broadcast and a transmission was received:
"This is Captain Thurben Wyl of the Emperor's Grace, state your intent unknown vessel".
A short comm exchange then occurred where the newcomer claimed to have come from somewhere called "The Gothic Sector" and that the transition thru the gate had killed both their navigator and caused irreparable damage to their Gellar field emitters, whatever that was supposed to mean.
At this time the gate's drift suddenly accelerated and drifted into the hyperspace storm. The storm flashed, causing every vessel's sensors within a few light years to overload and reboot. Upon coming back online, every scan of the gate found the gate to have vanished.
The newcomer was escorted to the nearest star, where their ship was retrofitted with the necessary equipment to travel in hyperspace. Representatives from the 14th and Hegemony were present to find out more of the newcomer.
"We were part of a screening force chasing a chaos fleet, we were following their wake. And then we wound up here."
"And who is this...Chaos? You where the first and only one to come through the gate."
"That simply means they haven't come through yet."
At this time a scout runner ship entered the system and broadcast on the emergency channel. The lost gate had been found again, over thirty light years away in the center of another hyperspace storm. And something else was coming out of it...
Imperium System:
Spoiler
Meridian
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The Green Tide:
Spoiler
The ring had been sighted far away from the core worlds by a passing surveying fleet. The Ghost Ring, as it had become known, let forth a burst of energy and vomited out a single object. The fleet was able to catch a single scan of the object before being lost in a hyperspace storm. The mass appeared as a confused amalgamation of ships fused together. The object appeared to have suffered heavy damage, the core of the mass sheared in half with a cloud of debris scattering in all directions.
Once again the Ghost Ring shifted into the closet hyperspace storm and was lost.
Most of the ejected mass was lost to the depths of hyperspace. One single shard, itself still a monstrous fragment, drifted into the gravity well of a star and was pulled into realspace. The shard was thrown around the local star, itself suffering further damage from the star’s radiant fury. The unguided slingshot maneuver led the shard to a remote jungle planet that was itself a moon of a gas giant.
The shard fell into a decaying orbit of the jungle world, eventually falling in a thunderous barrage that was witnessed by no one above the intelligence of the local fauna. The resulting crater left a scar upon the planet visible from space.
From the burning wreckage crawled a single survivor. It stumbled away from the mound of twisted metal. Beaten, battered, and bleeding, it soon succumbed to its wounds.
In time the fires of the crash site died down, leaving a smoking, twisted hulk. The dead body decayed, but unseen to common eyesight, it released spores that took to the fertile ground.
A new threat to the Persean Sector had arrived….
Ork Pirates System:
Spoiler
MorkaGorka
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The Old Enemy:
Spoiler
The independent science vessel Feather of Valor, enroute to a fringe world for a series of planetary surveys, had found itself riding a hyperspace slipstream that was roughly in the correct heading to its destination. The uneventful journey suddenly came to a jarring halt as an unforseen split in the slipstream tore the ship out into regular hyperspace.
"What the blasted was that?" asked the captain after he had picked himself up off the floor.
"Something is redirecting the flow", said one of the bridge officers while frantically tapping at her controls.
The main screen came online, displaying a split in the slipstream that was now a considerable distance behind the Feather of Valor. The tendril was flowing into a large round object that was spinning on itself.
“Get every working sensor we have on that thing right now,” ordered the captain.
“Is that the...?” asked another of the bridge crew. Despite orders to the contrary, rumors none the less spread about an accident involving one of the ring gates and the event’s connection to the arrival of the so-called “Imperium” and the supposide appearence of some kind of green abhumans that were reported to be destroyed somewhere in the eastern reach of the sector.
As the ring continued to pull in and absorb the energy from slipstream, it begun to spin on itself with an ever greater rate. Also it began to grow.
The Feather of Valor was forced to pull back as the ring spun with blinding speed, growing to such a huge size the the ship had to flee at maximum burn in order to stay out of the way.
And then with a flash that not only destroyed most of Valor’s senser suite but also rendered blind every crew member that was optically observing it, the ring vanished.
In its place was the gravity well for a brand new system that moments before did not exist. The nearly crippled ship limped back to the core worlds and reported their findings.
The Imperium quickly learned of the events and sent a scout ship to the system. It spent nearly 87 days in the system running dark along the outer asteroid belt found there, slowly charting the many planets in-system with deployed sensor bouys.
Their findings confirmed one of the Imperium’s greatest fears. The old enemy has come.
Somehow the ring gate had transported an entire system from chaos space into the sector.
Chaos Home System:
"What the blasted was that?" asked the captain after he had picked himself up off the floor.
"Something is redirecting the flow", said one of the bridge officers while frantically tapping at her controls.
The main screen came online, displaying a split in the slipstream that was now a considerable distance behind the Feather of Valor. The tendril was flowing into a large round object that was spinning on itself.
“Get every working sensor we have on that thing right now,” ordered the captain.
“Is that the...?” asked another of the bridge crew. Despite orders to the contrary, rumors none the less spread about an accident involving one of the ring gates and the event’s connection to the arrival of the so-called “Imperium” and the supposide appearence of some kind of green abhumans that were reported to be destroyed somewhere in the eastern reach of the sector.
As the ring continued to pull in and absorb the energy from slipstream, it begun to spin on itself with an ever greater rate. Also it began to grow.
The Feather of Valor was forced to pull back as the ring spun with blinding speed, growing to such a huge size the the ship had to flee at maximum burn in order to stay out of the way.
And then with a flash that not only destroyed most of Valor’s senser suite but also rendered blind every crew member that was optically observing it, the ring vanished.
In its place was the gravity well for a brand new system that moments before did not exist. The nearly crippled ship limped back to the core worlds and reported their findings.
The Imperium quickly learned of the events and sent a scout ship to the system. It spent nearly 87 days in the system running dark along the outer asteroid belt found there, slowly charting the many planets in-system with deployed sensor bouys.
Their findings confirmed one of the Imperium’s greatest fears. The old enemy has come.
Somehow the ring gate had transported an entire system from chaos space into the sector.
Chaos Home System:
Spoiler
Sin
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The Greater Good:
Spoiler
Independent trader No Hard Days was deep in hyperspace. Having been recently caught a slipstream, the ship was forced off course and rode out the current until it came to an end at the edge of a dense hyperspace storm.
“Captain, we’ve got something on our sensors, every reading is off the scale!” shouted the technical officer.
“Well, bring us in closer, lets have a look,” replied the captain.
View-screens came online.
“It’s the Ghost Ring,” said the comms officer. “It has to be.”
The ring was near the edge of the hyperspace storm, drawing in it’s energy like an invisible vacuum. A strange radiance circled like a whirlpool. Inside of the ring was a chaotic pattern of merging fractals and an ever changing pearlescent kaleidoscope..
Before the Captain could usher a command, the ring patterns flexed inward, A series of shapes were seen inside the ring, before a flash of light engulfed it.
The shockwave impacted No Hard Days with a hammer blow. Sparks flew around the bridge as the ship lost power. The vessel became adrift, just another derelict among the detritus of hyperspace. Repair crews were dispatched. Emergency power was rerouted. Basic systems started being restored.
The ring itself had disappeared, and a strange fleet of unknown pattern was in its place.
No Hard Days began to receive garbled comms bursts from the unknown fleet. They would later be deciphered as sermons, preaching about “The Greater Good”.
Tau Home System:
“Captain, we’ve got something on our sensors, every reading is off the scale!” shouted the technical officer.
“Well, bring us in closer, lets have a look,” replied the captain.
View-screens came online.
“It’s the Ghost Ring,” said the comms officer. “It has to be.”
The ring was near the edge of the hyperspace storm, drawing in it’s energy like an invisible vacuum. A strange radiance circled like a whirlpool. Inside of the ring was a chaotic pattern of merging fractals and an ever changing pearlescent kaleidoscope..
Before the Captain could usher a command, the ring patterns flexed inward, A series of shapes were seen inside the ring, before a flash of light engulfed it.
The shockwave impacted No Hard Days with a hammer blow. Sparks flew around the bridge as the ship lost power. The vessel became adrift, just another derelict among the detritus of hyperspace. Repair crews were dispatched. Emergency power was rerouted. Basic systems started being restored.
The ring itself had disappeared, and a strange fleet of unknown pattern was in its place.
No Hard Days began to receive garbled comms bursts from the unknown fleet. They would later be deciphered as sermons, preaching about “The Greater Good”.
Tau Home System:
Spoiler
Kororvesh
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Ship stuff:
Imperium of Man:
Spoiler
Imperium reskins done by Bloodtrailkiller
Misc Support Ships:
Spoiler
Light Cargo Transport:
Light Fuel Transport:
Heavy Cargo Transport:
Heavy Fuel Transport:
Universe Mass Conveyor:
Light Fuel Transport:
Heavy Cargo Transport:
Heavy Fuel Transport:
Universe Mass Conveyor:
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Fighters:
Spoiler
Fury Interceptor:
Marauder Bomber:
Star Hawk Bomber:
Thunderbolt Heavy Fighter: (Source Sprite Donated by FunkyCirno69)
Marauder Bomber:
Star Hawk Bomber:
Thunderbolt Heavy Fighter: (Source Sprite Donated by FunkyCirno69)
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Escort Ships:
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Cobra Destroyer:
Firestrom Frigate:
Sword Frigate:
Falchion Escort:
Firestrom Frigate:
Sword Frigate:
Falchion Escort:
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Light Cruisers (Destroyers):
Spoiler
Dauntless Light Cruiser:
Endeavour Light Cruiser:
Defiant Light Cruiser:
Endurance Light Cruiser:
Enforcer System Control Cruiser
Endeavour Light Cruiser:
Defiant Light Cruiser:
Endurance Light Cruiser:
Enforcer System Control Cruiser
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Cruisers:
Spoiler
Dictator Cruiser:
Dominator Cruiser:
Gothic Cruiser:
Lunar Cruiser:
Tyrant Cruiser:
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BattleCruisers:
Spoiler
Mercury BattleCruiser:
Mars BattleCruiser:
Jovian BattleCruiser:
Orion BattleCruiser:
Overlord BattleCruiser:
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Capital Ships:
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Apocalypse Battleship
Emperor Battleship:
Oberon Battleship:
Retribution Battleship:
Nemesis Fleet Carrier:
Vanquisher Battleship:
Victory Battleship:
Emperor Battleship:
Oberon Battleship:
Retribution Battleship:
Nemesis Fleet Carrier:
Vanquisher Battleship:
Victory Battleship:
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Bonus type
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Avenger Grand Cruiser:
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Weapons:
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Anti-Ship Missile: 
Plasma Torpedo: 
Macrocannon: 
Twin-Linked Omega Bolter: 
Twin-Linked Heavy Lascannon 
Plasma Cannon: 
Plasma Battery: 
Lance Battery 
Sunbeam Lance Battery 
Mars rotary Macrocannon: 
Stygies rotary Macrocannon: 
Disruption rotary Macrocannon: 
Plasma Torpedo: Macrocannon: Twin-Linked Omega Bolter: Twin-Linked Heavy Lascannon Plasma Cannon: Plasma Battery: Lance Battery Sunbeam Lance Battery Mars rotary Macrocannon: Stygies rotary Macrocannon: Disruption rotary Macrocannon: [close]
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Ork Pirates:
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Fighters
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Dakka Jet:
Fighta Bommer
Wazbom Blastjet
Eavy Bommer
Grot Bommer
Mega Bommer
Fighta Bommer
Wazbom Blastjet
Eavy Bommer
Grot Bommer
Mega Bommer
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Frigates:
Spoiler
Brusia:
Scrapa:
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Destroyers:
Spoiler
Crusha:
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Crusiers:
Spoiler
Ork Karrier:
Snapa Battlecruiser:
Basha Light Crusier:
Supa Basha Heavy Cruiser:
Ork Rok:
Ork Rok (High Metal Content):
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Capital Ships:
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Smasha Battleship:
Shreadda Battleship
Ork MegaRok:
Shreadda Battleship
Ork MegaRok:
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Orky Weapons:
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***** AntiFighter / Point Defense:
Dakka Kannon:
Flakka Kannon:
MegaFlakka Kannon:
**** General Pew pews:
Kannon:
BiggaKannon:
Thumpa:
BiggaThumpa:
**** Rokkits
Rokkit Launcha:
Rokkit Autolauncha:
Rokkit Launcha Battery:
Grot Launcha Battery:
****** Big Gunz
Supa Kannon:
Zzapp Gun:
Supa Thumpa:
Barrage Kannon:
Dakka Kannon:
Flakka Kannon:
MegaFlakka Kannon:
**** General Pew pews:
Kannon:
BiggaKannon:
Thumpa:
BiggaThumpa:
**** Rokkits
Rokkit Launcha:
Rokkit Autolauncha:
Rokkit Launcha Battery:
Grot Launcha Battery:
****** Big Gunz
Supa Kannon:
Zzapp Gun:
Supa Thumpa:
Barrage Kannon:
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Forces of Chaos:
Spoiler
Misc Support Ships:
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Chaos Freighter
Chaos Fuel Transport
Chaos Heavy Freighter
Chaos Heavy Fuel Transport
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Fighters
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Lightning Fighter
Swiftdeath Interceptor
Hell Blade Fighter
Hell Talon Fighter Bomber
Doomfire Bomber
Harbinger Super Heavy Bomber
Swiftdeath Interceptor
Hell Blade Fighter
Hell Talon Fighter Bomber
Doomfire Bomber
Harbinger Super Heavy Bomber
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Frigates
Spoiler
Idolator Raider
Infidel Raider
Iconoclast Destroyer
Infidel Raider
Iconoclast Destroyer
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Light Cruisers (Destroyers)
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Damnation
Brimstone Light Carrier
Brimstone Light Carrier
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Cruisers
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Carnage
Devastation
Murder
Pagan
Slaughter
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Heavy Cruisers
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Acheron
Hades
Styx
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Grand Cruisers
Spoiler
Repulsive
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Capital Ships
Spoiler
Despoiler Battleship
Desolator Battleship
Corruptor Super Carrier
Planet killer Reproduction
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Chaos Weapons
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Plasma Torpedo
Lance Cannon
Lasburner
Chaos Mars Pattern Macrocannon
Chaos Stygies Pattern Macrocannon
Chaos Disruption Pattern Macrocannon
Chaos Plasma Cannon
Chaos Twin Linked Heavy Lascannon
Chaos Twin Linked Omega Bolter
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Tau:
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Misc Support Ships:
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Courier (Cargo and Fuel variants)
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Fighters
Spoiler
Razorshark
Sunshark
Barracuda
Tigershark
Tigershark AX-1-0
DX6 Remora
Manta
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Frigates
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Castellan
Defender
Messenger
Orca
Warden
Defender
Messenger
Orca
Warden
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Destroyers
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Emissary (Bor Kan Configuration) and (Dal Yth Configuration)
Emissary (Sa Cea Configuration)
Emissary (Sa Cea Configuration)
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Cruisers
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Hero Starship
Hero (Tol Ku Configuration) Starship
Merchant Starship
Merchant (Dal Yth Configuration) Starship
Protector
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Capital Ships
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Custodian Battleship
Explorer Starship (and Explorer Bor Kan Configuration)
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Tau Weapons
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Tau Burst Cannon
Tau Blaster
Tau Railgun
Tau Heavy Railgun
Tau Ion Cannon
Tau Fusion Blaster
Tau Fusion Collider
Tau Fusion Eradicator
Tau Pulse Ordnance Accelerator Cannon
Tau Seeker Missile
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Demiurg sub-faction:
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Battleship:
Stronghold
Crusiers:
Bastion
Citadel
Fighters:
Demiurg Fighter
Barge bomber
Weapons:
Demiurg Mining Torpedo
Demiurg Mining Missile
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Mod is a work in progress