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I'm busy playing (and more often then not, still losing) the game and after not really getting into any of the civs have created my own custom civ for theme purposes. I tried to keep them within the games realm of possibility, tell me what you think and feel free to post your own.
Name: Imperial Order
Homeworld: Imperium
Ship Colors: Dark grey hull, Golden yellow trim
Leaders: Abe Dralok, Nihkos al'Thanos, Vyaeton Kelthak, Culgar Vrokahn, Leo Falkieri.
Description: A united Earth is a new thing, before the Hyperdrive's blueprints were leaked and spread Earth was pretty much ruled by multi-national corporations. These corporate city-states basically controlled the nations as their puppets, putting profit above all. The days of these corporate giants was numbered though. With growing population the people became harder and harder to control so they searched for a way to solve this and still keep control.
Naturally starting a war or two would work, but would be bad for profit. After careful examination they decided colonizing space would work best. The five great corporations combined their talents and set about on this monumental task. Many years and countless fortunes went to this task. In the end they succeeded in inventing the Hyperdrive, the engine that changed the galaxy. However in their success they had hastened their end. The profit and time devoted away from maintaining their corporations losened their grip on the worlds governments.
With a renewed movement for one government and stricter corporate regulations the corporations enacted a desperate plan. They began transporting their loyal employees using the new hyperdrive technology to a planet they had found capable of supporting human life. They managed to hide it for awhile but eventually it was discovered what was going on, and it only spurred the anti-corporate tide.
These corporate masters and their workers abandoned Earth, leaving it in a wave of revolution after revolution that would continue for a hundred years. Eventually one government gained control, unititing Earth under one flag. Meanwhile the corporations were busy setting themselves up as the rulers of the new world. They established a fuedal like society on the world they dubbed Imperium with the corporations serving as great and minor noble houses.
The heads of the great houses choose among themselves to to pick an Emperor to lead the new world. Not all were happy with this turn of events though. One of the corporations that had been essential in developing the Hyperdrive had been stuck with the title of a minor house and given little involvement in the day to day running of things. Feeling betrayed they turned on their fellow corporations, stealing a ship and fleeing the planet.
Returning to Earth they spread the blueprints of the Hyperdrive and then they went to other worlds, sharing it with all the advanced races of the galaxy. With their one true advantage gone the Order was reduced to the same level as the rest of the galactic Empires, forced to face the threat of growing alien empires as well as their brothers in the Terran Empire.
The 5 Great Houses:
House Dralok, aka Dralok Industries (Federalist)
House Thanos, aka Applied Chemical Engineering (Populist)
House Kelthak, aka Theoretical Arms and Vehicles (War)
House Vrokahn, Vrokahn Shipping and Freight (Mercantile)
House Falkieri, aka United Mining (Industrialist)
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Thats the story i've been running in my head while in game. The homeworld gets named Imperium and all planets after great and minor houses with the great ones first. I change leader and civ bonuses from game to game, but keep the planets doing the rolls that fit their corporation. Its been fun so far, still tweaking all my ship designs or i'd post some. Though i've got names down already.
Skirmisher-Lancer-Gunboat for Tiny-Small-Medium hull warships, and Autobot-Ox-Caravan for Constructor-Colony Ship-Freighter.
Anyway, i'll quit rambling now before I write another page of useless stuff. What little stories and custom races has everyone else thought up?
Name: Imperial Order
Homeworld: Imperium
Ship Colors: Dark grey hull, Golden yellow trim
Leaders: Abe Dralok, Nihkos al'Thanos, Vyaeton Kelthak, Culgar Vrokahn, Leo Falkieri.
Description: A united Earth is a new thing, before the Hyperdrive's blueprints were leaked and spread Earth was pretty much ruled by multi-national corporations. These corporate city-states basically controlled the nations as their puppets, putting profit above all. The days of these corporate giants was numbered though. With growing population the people became harder and harder to control so they searched for a way to solve this and still keep control.
Naturally starting a war or two would work, but would be bad for profit. After careful examination they decided colonizing space would work best. The five great corporations combined their talents and set about on this monumental task. Many years and countless fortunes went to this task. In the end they succeeded in inventing the Hyperdrive, the engine that changed the galaxy. However in their success they had hastened their end. The profit and time devoted away from maintaining their corporations losened their grip on the worlds governments.
With a renewed movement for one government and stricter corporate regulations the corporations enacted a desperate plan. They began transporting their loyal employees using the new hyperdrive technology to a planet they had found capable of supporting human life. They managed to hide it for awhile but eventually it was discovered what was going on, and it only spurred the anti-corporate tide.
These corporate masters and their workers abandoned Earth, leaving it in a wave of revolution after revolution that would continue for a hundred years. Eventually one government gained control, unititing Earth under one flag. Meanwhile the corporations were busy setting themselves up as the rulers of the new world. They established a fuedal like society on the world they dubbed Imperium with the corporations serving as great and minor noble houses.
The heads of the great houses choose among themselves to to pick an Emperor to lead the new world. Not all were happy with this turn of events though. One of the corporations that had been essential in developing the Hyperdrive had been stuck with the title of a minor house and given little involvement in the day to day running of things. Feeling betrayed they turned on their fellow corporations, stealing a ship and fleeing the planet.
Returning to Earth they spread the blueprints of the Hyperdrive and then they went to other worlds, sharing it with all the advanced races of the galaxy. With their one true advantage gone the Order was reduced to the same level as the rest of the galactic Empires, forced to face the threat of growing alien empires as well as their brothers in the Terran Empire.
The 5 Great Houses:
House Dralok, aka Dralok Industries (Federalist)
House Thanos, aka Applied Chemical Engineering (Populist)
House Kelthak, aka Theoretical Arms and Vehicles (War)
House Vrokahn, Vrokahn Shipping and Freight (Mercantile)
House Falkieri, aka United Mining (Industrialist)
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Thats the story i've been running in my head while in game. The homeworld gets named Imperium and all planets after great and minor houses with the great ones first. I change leader and civ bonuses from game to game, but keep the planets doing the rolls that fit their corporation. Its been fun so far, still tweaking all my ship designs or i'd post some. Though i've got names down already.
Skirmisher-Lancer-Gunboat for Tiny-Small-Medium hull warships, and Autobot-Ox-Caravan for Constructor-Colony Ship-Freighter.
Anyway, i'll quit rambling now before I write another page of useless stuff. What little stories and custom races has everyone else thought up?
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