Arbiter 4C Fleet Cruiser image - Next Generation Combat Systems mod for Homeworld 2

Background: NGCS represents a "TC out of a TC" effort stemming from the PDS mod, which I find to be rather hard to update nowadays due to its huge size and limited scope of in-HW2 gameplay options. NGCS (or Next Generation Combat Systems) brings to HW2 a fully dynamic and lifelike truescale Newtonian battlespace that allows for an authentic simulation of space warfare in a more believable scale and speed than of HW2 and PDS. Applications: To date, three applications for NGCS have been identified. NGCS is designed to be a generic system of programming for actors (ie, warships) in the Homeworld 2 game engine and can be ported over to all existing HW2 TCs with a minimal level of fuss. NGCS will be used for a PDSverse singleplayer mini-campaign based around a Praetor class supercarrier, and this campaign will mirror the flow of modern-day naval-air operations. This first version of NGCS will experiment with singleplayer scripting for HW2. Besides this, the NGCS concept gets...