For those that do not know, there is a mod called 7 Deadly Sins for Sins of a Solar Empire. The mod started by incorporating other mods into it, such as new planet types and visual effects. The creator, Danman, also had the intent of adding Star Control races into the game. That was over a year ago.
Today, we already have 2 SC races in the game, the Kohr-Ah and the Arilou. We've taken the basic idea of Arilou ships as your typical UFOs, and ran with that. The classic Skiff comes in regular frigate and hero capital ship versions. They rely on two different types of motherships as their base of operations, they build the other ships. One of the mothership models, the smaller one, is a placeholder until we have one we like more. Many liberties were taken with the ships' appearances.
The Kohr-Ah were very strictly based around the Kohr-Ah Marauder's design. The whole fleet is a menacing group, and every ship, even the scouts, can bomb planets. For balance, frigate bombing is fairly weak, but doable. The Kohr-Ah Titan will be the Sa-Matra, which all of you should know quite well. We're not including the surrounding asteroids for it, but the ship will be a menacing SOB. It will be in the next release. For those that don't know what a Titan is, consider it...a ship of certain death and destruction that's ready to blow enemy fleets into their material components. For scaling, the Super Star Destroyer would qualify as a decent Titan for the Galactic Empire.
The Sa-Matra will also be featured as the Kzer-Za's titan. The Kzer-Za will join either the Druuge or Chmmr in the next release. The Chmmr will include the Mmrnmhrm and Chenjesu, using their old ships as 'dated designs' and inter-joining ship designs. The Druuge will contain a number of ships designed around a large gun or gun system.
The Earthlings and Mycon will be the next species done, and we want to get them all done, and maybe add a couple more after the more canon races are done.
By the way, if you have ANYTHING you think you can contribute to the project, email me, our forums are currently down . Modelers, voice actors, 2d artists, and whatever should come.
Anyway, it's time for some pictures of in-game footage and upcoming release stuff.
the frigate skiff
The hero skiff has a larger engine trail
various Arilou ships floating around
More flying around. Good show of different angles. The Vee has the overhead antennae thing, it's a planet bomber.
A Skiff caught in the middle of a Kohr-Ah fleet. The explosion around the Kohr-Ah ship is FRIED
Fleet battle. You can see a Kohr-Ah frigate quite nicely.
an "Unfinished" skin of the Kzer-Za colony ship (fairly noncombat). Still menacing, I think.
Un-textured renders of the upcoming Sa-Matra.
That's all for now. Hopefully ya'll will approve, and maybe give the game and our mod a test. I will warn that it's a hardware intensive game, with thousands of ships going around and beating eachother with death rays and all. Any questions, PM me. Peace. Or War. Whatever you prefer.
