Star Wars: Interregnum is an upcoming mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion that builds off of the highly successful Enhanced 4X Mod. Fleeing the unknown terror that is chasing the Vasari, the factions of Sins of a Solar Empire stumble on a temporary wormhole that takes them to a galaxy far, far away. The sudden arrival of armadas with trillions of refugees and thousands of warships between the events of Episodes 5 & 6 forever alters the Star Wars universe and plunges the galaxy into an unprecedented period of chaos and violence. Begun, a new conflict has.
One of the many small sized civilian space ships produced by Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC), the Corellian Scout as I've called this vessel is a fast recon ship used by the Rebel Alliance along with her cousins, the more well known CR90 Corellian Corvette and DP20 Corellian Gunship. While the Scout is only armed with a few point defense lasers, her two large booster engines provide her with impressive subspace speeds. In addition, thanks to how easy CEC designs are to modify, the Alliance has installed a powerful sensor system into the Corellian Scout, giving her the ability to spy on adjacent planets.
Yet the most powerful ability of the Corellian Scout, and in fact the entire Rebel Alliance faction, is their ability to deploy Navigation Buoys to help link Alliance Fleets. These buoys broadcast navigation data to other buoys, effectively creating new, temporary hyperspace routes while the Navigation Buoys are active. In Sins terms, they act as temporary phase gates, best used to allow different Alliance Fleets to link together at a moments notice or to get reinforcements to a battle site quickly. However, they can be destroyed by enemy forces before they expire, so make sure you deploy them in a fairly save location.
Also, the Corellian Scout will feature the first bit of custom dialog made specifically for Interregnum, thanks to user MiWadiAddiction!
This is really going to poke at the Empire's morale system, just the way it should
This is really cool. I just hope the rebels aren't too much like the Vasari. Although from what GaoFan77 has done in the past, they probably aren't.
The Vasari phase gates tend to be more defensive in nature since you can only build them at your planets and they are permanent. Since the Rebel's can only get them via scouts and they are temporary, they are more well suited for offensive operations and strike runs. At least that's how I'm hoping they'll work. :p
I thought so. That really sounds like a pain to the empire. Especially because of the morale system.
Will the AI have a problem with this?
Not sure yet, though Vasari don't even use their gates terribly well either. They might get something else to compensate though.