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Since I thought some of you may be curious, here is a little information for you all on the various races/factions that are going to be in YY. I have included the core four and the 5th and 6th factions that I hope we'll include as well after the core four are complete. :)

Yesteryears is set near the dawn of the 24th Century and sets the place for the changes that will change the Alpha Quadrant from the volatile TMP era to the more peaceful TNG era. In Yesteryears, the Federation-Klingon peace treaty is not even a decade old, and there are still many hostilities between the two powers with border skirmishes still common place although diminishing. Many powers look upon the newly formed treaty as a military build up and are preparing for such an invasion.

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United Federation of Planets
As interstellar power that has over 150 member planets spanning over 8,000 light years. The Federation isn’t dominated by any one species which has labelled it by many as a mongrel power, but it’s through its diversity that the Federation’s greatest strength can be found. Through mutual cooperation, peaceful co-existence, desire to expand their scientific knowledge and non prejudice that the Federation has become the largest and one of the most powerful super powers in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

Starfleet
The military and exploration division of the Federation is called Starfleet, whose primary mission is the defence of the Federation, its member worlds and the exploration of space and peaceful contact with new civilizations. Due to the nature of the Federation most of the vessels operated by Starfleet are peaceful in nature with very few offensive weaponry, however in the last couple of decades of the 23rd century many vessels designed more for combat were launched due to the increasing hostilities with the Klingon Empire at the time.
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Imperial Klingon Empire
The Klingon Empire as it’s more commonly known is a powerful Empire in the Beta Quadrant run and controlled by the Klingon species, a warrior race that prides themself on combat and conflict. The Klingons aren’t as brutal as many civilizations outside the Empire say they are. The Klingons have a highly evolved sense of honour and conduct themselves in that manner. Their Empire, while subjugating many species in the past is now in a state of decline after the Praxis explosion in 2293 and several other internal problems. With the help of their new allies the Federation, the Empire is slowly rebuilding their economy and stabilising their territory.

Klingon Defence Force
The military arm of the Empire, the KDF as it’s sometimes called is the organization responsible for the running of the Empire fleet and the defence of the Klingon Empire and its people from outside aggressors. Due to recent internal problems, the KDF operates ships that are old and somewhat outdated compared to other powers, but they field them in large numbers to make up for their lack of progress in the past 12 years.
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Romulan Star Empire
The Star Empire is a powerful Empire in the Beta Quadrant run by the Romulan people, a direct offshoot of the peaceful Vulcan people. Unlike their Vulcan cousins, the Romulans are a passionate and somewhat violent people and direct adversaries to the Federation, Klingon Empire and Gorn Hegemony. Until recently the Romulan Empire was somewhat lacking in propulsion technology thus giving them a tactical disadvantage until a technological exchange with the Klingon Empire in 2260. The Empire while larger than the Klingon Empire, is much smaller than the Federation and with the signing of the Khitomer Accords in 2293 the Romulans have found themselves surrounded by the Federation and its allies whom are all mutual enemies of the Romulans.

Imperial Star Navy
The Romulans operate their own massive space fleet for use in the defence of their Empire, aggression against enemies and expansion of the Empire. With the inclusion of more efficient warp technology the Romulans are much more up to date than they were several decades ago and with their cloaking technology they have become a very powerful foe. The Romulan fleet uses a mix of older 1st generation refitted designs, Klingon and Klingon inspired designs and new 3rd generation Romulan designs.
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Gorn Hegemony
The Hegemony is a medium sized interstellar power in the Beta Quadrant controlled by the reptilian Gorn species. The Gorn are a transplanted species, with no known world of origin, however Ghdar is the capital of the Gorn Hegemony and one of the homeworlds of the three sub-species of Gorn whom formed the Hegemony. The Gorn are a peaceful like power who are long time enemies of the Romulans who have several times in the last several centuries attempted to invade and conquer the Gorn. The Gorn are currently allies with the Federation and have signed a non aggression pact with the Klingon Empire.

Gorn Military
The Gorn Military while smaller than many of the other superpowers is a fierce and powerful foe. Gorn technology is on par with that of the Federation, and while they have fewer ships their ships are much more powerful one on one. It’s very common to see Gorn vessels travelling alone and with their powerful weaponry including phasers, disruptors, Photon and plasma torpedoes and the recent update of their fleet the Gorn have been able to protect their borders from aggressors with minimal loss of life on the Gorn’s behalf.
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Kzinti Patriarchy
The Kzinti Patriarchy is a medium-sized stellar empire on the far side of Romulan and Klingon space and is the official state for the Kzin race. The Patriarchy while roughly the size of the Gorn Hegemony is the polar opposite of the Gorn. The Kzinti are a race of aggressive predatory carnivores native to the planet Kzin in the Beta Quadrant. The Patriarchy are bent on conquest of what they consider lesser species, and due to this have expanded outwards from Kzin and have conquered countless species. The Kzin have fought wars with all of their neighbours, including two with the distant Federation, the last one in the early 2280's.

Mirak Star League
The Kzinti's military force known as the Mirak Star League is a powerful force despite having somewhat outdated technology. Star League vessels are built for combat and conquest and utilise phasers and disruptors for close quarter combat but their primary weapon are powerful missiles. Fired at long range they are capable of heavily damaging enemy fleets.
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The Secret Power
This is a surprise that the creators of Yesteryears, Syf and Majestic, have put together for the MSFC Community. This power was in fact the 4th power/faction developed for Yesteryears after the Federation, Klingons and Romulans were added. This power makes a considerable impact to the Yesteryears storyline and the shaping of the entire feel of the mod and timeline of the Star Trek universe.

This power/faction will become known to all when they are released, as to when that it, you’ll have to wait and see like the rest of us.
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*Feel free to comment if you like, this topic is left open for any discussion that our members wish to partake in.*
 

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Hello:

I like how you have thought the story for all the races, specially of those people may not be very familairized with, like the Gorn and the Kzinti (Wow, it sounds similar to the Xindi o_O ).

As for the secret race, I will wait patiently until it is ready... but I do hope that race will not be the Donuts from Armada2Files :lol2:.
 

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Hello:

I like how you have thought the story for all the races, specially of those people may not be very familairized with, like the Gorn and the Kzinti (Wow, it sounds similar to the Xindi o_O ).

As for the secret race, I will wait patiently until it is ready... but I do hope that race will not be the Donuts from Armada2Files :lol2:.

The Kzinti have been in for a long time, originally they were part of Larry Niven's Known Space series of books from the late 1960's. They first appeared in Star Trek TAS and were to be the main villains in Season 5 of Enterprise till it got canned by the network.

It is known that they have had several wars with mankind, first before the formation of the UFP, then one before TOS and I believe there was one in TMP era somewhere. The Tzenkethi were actually thought to have been the Kzinti in TNG era, but the creator said he saw the Tzenkethi more as lizards similar to the Gorn. He did however create the Tzenkethi name by combining the Kzinti name with some RPG names.

In the Starfleet Command series of games, due to licensing issues the Kzinti were renamed to Mirak Star League and were more canine than feline. Syf actually came up with an ingenious idea of having the Mirak Star League name as the Kzinti's version of Starfleet. So impressed with this idea, we adopted straight away and so fans of both the Starfleet Battles and Starfleet Command games can both recognise them in YY. However we have tired to keep the Kzinti as close to Larry Niven's original concept as possible.

I can honestly and confidently say no Donuts, I find it overused on the other site and a bit immature even if it's just out of fun. YY is a serious modification one done to not only bring A2 into another time-frame, but to tell a story about why such species as the Kzinti and Gorn are not mentioned in TNG and how the galaxy shaped from the chaotic TMP era to the more peaceful TNG era. So yeah mate no donuts here, that a A2Files exclusive. :thumbsup:
 

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Nice and well thought out. :)

Quick question though, is the 'Secret Race' a known power? As in, when it's known people aren't going to go 'Who?' but rather 'Oh, it's them. I should have guessed that, I suppose...'
 

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I can honestly and confidently say no Donuts, I find it overused on the other site and a bit immature even if it's just out of fun. YY is a serious modification one done to not only bring A2 into another time-frame, but to tell a story about why such species as the Kzinti and Gorn are not mentioned in TNG and how the galaxy shaped from the chaotic TMP era to the more peaceful TNG era. So yeah mate no donuts here, that a A2Files exclusive. :thumbsup:
Yeah, agreed. It's a nice little running gag, but it's connected with the history of A2F and just doesn't fit into MSFC. Or an A2 TC mod. (Especially because the only donuts we have are TNG donuts. We don't have TMP donuts that would fit into YY. :p)

A secret race... fascinating. Let's speculate a little. I guess it's a race not necessarily found in the TMP era. The Terrans are excluded... Hm. I guess it's a TMP Dominion race. ;)
 

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Nice and well thought out. :)

Quick question though, is the 'Secret Race' a known power? As in, when it's known people aren't going to go 'Who?' but rather 'Oh, it's them. I should have guessed that, I suppose...'

To throw you a bone, it's not a known species. It's something that is sort of made up by me and expanded upon by Syf.

Yeah, agreed. It's a nice little running gag, but it's connected with the history of A2F and just doesn't fit into MSFC. Or an A2 TC mod. (Especially because the only donuts we have are TNG donuts. We don't have TMP donuts that would fit into YY. :p)

A secret race... fascinating. Let's speculate a little. I guess it's a race not necessarily found in the TMP era. The Terrans are excluded... Hm. I guess it's a TMP Dominion race. ;)

That would be a great guess, considering I am a Dominion fan as is well known. Funny really since I am not much of a DS9 fan expect for the Defiant, the Dominion and Worf. :lol:

I can say it's not the common races that we know, (Tholians, Tzenkethi, Talarians, Cardassians, Sona, Remans, First Federation etc) nor is it a species from outside the Alpha/Beta Quadrants and it's certainly not one of the Starfleet Battles/Command races (Hydrans, Lyrians etc).

It's a partially made up faction by myself and Syf. Pretty unique and has never been done before in Armada 2, and will most likely be released with or after the Romulans and Klingons.
 

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You have to make it difficult don't you? :p

I've got no idea :)
 

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Majestic said:
To throw you a bone, it's not a known species. It's something that is sort of made up by me and expanded upon by Syf.

It's a partially made up faction by myself and Syf. Pretty unique and has never been done before in Armada 2, and will most likely be released with or after the Romulans and Klingons.
Partially made up... Wow. You certainly know how to make this interesting. :thumbsup:

On a related note, need any weapon textures for YY? I've finished my exams for this semester, now I have more than a month of free time. I will be working on A2 anyway, so if you need something, just tell me.
 

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@ Amateur, that's why it's a secret faction. :lol2:

@ Terra, thanks. I am pretty set up in that regards right now. However I may come to you for some special weapons down the track. I haven't started on them yet as I'll probably not have them included in the first release. However in part two I'll certainly be looking at adding them. :thumbsup:
 

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So your Kzinti will be alot more like the Kilrathi and less like there SFB/SFC counterparts then. Any hints on what their naval architextur will be like? I have often toyed with adding them to my Pre-TOS list but a lack of insperation on the part of ship design made it mor of an afterthought then a plan.
 

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I've got it!

Secret faction...it must be the Men in Black! :)

Am I right? :thumbsup:
 

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Even better, especially if the Soup Dragon was their super unit :lol:
 

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Well, at least we know it is not the Donuts.
Well, I guess we will all have to wait to know who is the secret power... but that gives an added flavour to the mod.
But what was said about a portion of the timleine that goes from TMP into the more peaceful TNG era, how far in the Lost Era will this mod go? only until the Excelsior class of ships? maybe late TMP era ony?.
 

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The mod is set in the very late 23rd to early 24th century. Somewhere around 2298-2305. A solid date isn't set yet. I always call TLE, TNG when talking about the TMP. It has a totally different feel to it. :)

As for the secret faction, unless one of you can read minds, or hack my PC (which I wouldn't be very happy with you by the way :p) I very much doubt you'll guess it. We've had people trying to guess it since 2007 and still no one has even come close. The funny thing is they are as developed, as in models made complete as the Romulans and Klingons. Though I am considering doing back and re-designing a few ships.

Syf and I together is a bad and troublesome duo aren't we? :lol2:
 

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Its not the Tholians is it?

Majestic said:
I can say it's not the common races that we know, (Tholians, Tzenkethi, Talarians, Cardassians, Sona, Remans, First Federation etc)

Nope, they are to be in YY2, if we ever get around to making it. :thumbsup:
 

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As for the secret faction, unless one of you can read minds, or hack my PC (which I wouldn't be very happy with you by the way :p) I very much doubt you'll guess it. We've had people trying to guess it since 2007 and still no one has even come close. The funny thing is they are as developed, as in models made complete as the Romulans and Klingons. Though I am considering doing back and re-designing a few ships.

Syf and I together is a bad and troublesome duo aren't we? :lol2:

Majestic why do i get these flashes about cubical shaped vessels from you with regards to the secret faction..:shock:
 

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Majestic why do i get these flashes about cubical shaped vessels from you with regards to the secret faction..:shock:

I wish it was true... :eek:
 

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It's not lack of faith. Majestic has said many time the it's not the Borg. You must calm yourself if you are to learn from the living force:p
 

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It's not lack of faith. Majestic has said many time the it's not the Borg. You must calm yourself if you are to learn from the living force:p

Many people here closely watch interesting projects, even if they span years. They recall every detail the Head Maj-ician has said. If this was some other page, my answer would be lurk moar. But since this is MSFC, where such crude platitudes are eschewed, I'll simply say: Listen to the starfox. :cool:
 

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Majestic why do i get these flashes about cubical shaped vessels from you with regards to the secret faction..:shock:

I wish it was true... :eek:

It's not lack of faith. Majestic has said many time the it's not the Borg. You must calm yourself if you are to learn from the living force:p

Starfox is correct, I personally feel the Borg have no place as a playable faction in any RTS, they can't be done correctly to the feel of the show. Plus this is a TMP era mod and despite what Legacy did (those developers were smoking heard stuff back then for sure) they aren't in that era. :thumbsup:
 

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Starfox is correct, I personally feel the Borg have no place as a playable faction in any RTS, they can't be done correctly to the feel of the show. Plus this is a TMP era mod and despite what Legacy did (those developers were smoking heard stuff back then for sure) they aren't in that era. :thumbsup:

They were in Enterprise :p

If it has to be a secret faction then perhaps these fellows are an option:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Hur'q

The Klingons hate them and nobody knows what their ships look like.
 

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No sorry it isn't the Hur'Q. Though they would be fun to do. :)
 

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No sorry, not them!
 
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