TCR STA2 Project

posted on March 24th, 2010, 11:45 pm

This project will add a new race to Star Trek Armada 2 called the Tereanan empire.  And make a few modifications to the stock models and weapons.

The Tereanan empire is Earth in origin and shares much of their space with the Federation.  Tereana is allies with the Federation and can provide more tactical support to their allies than the Federation can.  Tereana's excessive use in metal means that trade is invaluable.  Tereana still uses latinum and dilithium, but only in research and in the construction of planetary shields.

This new race is transwarp capable and has more ships and stations than the Federation.  And the overall firepower on some ships will be able to provide sufficient resistance even when outnumbered by the Borg.  Watch out for the transwarp networks and defence stations though.  They will tear your ships apart if you are the enemy.  Here is a list of extra stations and ships.

• Transwarp Network - This structure is armed and can have up to 8 individual gates on it.
• Transwarp Gate - This creates a single transwarp conduit from the gate to a target location.  It can be built by itself or appended onto a transwarp network.
• Defence Station - This station can be built to help defend your stations against attacks.  More powerful than the defence turrets, it can usually take out an enemy before the enemy has a chance to return fire.  This thing is expensive.
• Class-B Constructor Ship - This ship constructs transwarp gates and the defence station.
• Cruiser type 4 - In addition to the standard 3 cruisers, this one is used to provide light tactical support and is capable of at least matching a cube's firepower.
• Repair Vessel type 2 - This ship is used in combat to help repair allied vessels.  This ship is capable of delivering a punch to the enemy, but nothing more.  It shouldn't be used alone.
• Battleship 3 - This cube-shaped vessel is slightly bigger than a Borg cube, but is used to easily take out a Tactical cube.  This vessel can be used to provide heavy tactical support and is expensive to build.
• Battleship 4 - This rectangular-prism shaped vessel can wipe out an enemy base within seconds.  And can do a pretty good amount of damage even when outnumbered.  Expensive to build, but it's the best ship to have for your fleet.
• Anti-Matter Missile - This weapon will destroy anything that ends up in its shock wave.  Packed with anti-matter, if you destroy this missile, you better be ready to run!  Otherwise, you'll wipe yourself out.  Literally!

I'll be updating the stock units size, weapons, and shielding capabilities to make it more like what it is in star-trek.  This time, the statement "We are the Borg!  You will be assimilated!  Resistance is futile!" might end up being true.  The size updates may not come until later because the Borg units will have a size increase of a factor of about 4 or 5 and the planets and nebulae about a factor of 5 to 10.  Which means that the maps will need to be about 5 to 10 times bigger than before.