Sins Dark Reavers Mod

This mod adds a new faction (DkR/Dark Reavers, the name of my gaming clan) to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and also enhances all weapon effects and sounds of the existing factions. The DkR faction was originally mechanically identical to the Advent Rebel faction, but has gradually become completely different.

The DkR faction still uses Advent structure models, announcement voices, and their diplomacy tree, but has its own unique main research trees, ships, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses.

The ships are mostly re-skinned Romulan ships with tweaked weapon hardpoints. Why Romulan ships? Well firstly I'm not a modeller so I had to use models from somewhere else (with permission, credits below). Beyond that it's down to personal taste; I love the shape of Romulan ships, and thought they might look cool if they were black instead of green.

Aside from the addition of DkR, the mod changes the weapon effects (particles and sounds) for all the other factions (almost all weapon effects are custom) to make them more impressive and cohesive (TEC green/yellow, Advent blue/teal, Vasari red/orange/pink). Some ability effects have also been changed, along with some other minor modifications.

General Features

• Addition of a new playable faction (DkR)
• Enhanced weapon/ability effects and sounds for all factions
• Optional strikecraft component which reduces the number of craft per squad (for performance reasons) whilst maintaining overall balance
• Team coloured Eradica titan
• Enlarged Ankylon titan
• Fixed several minor bugs present in Rebellion

DkR Faction Features

• Completely new ship models and textures (other than their construction ships and trade ships)
• Completely new weapon effects and sounds
• Custom research trees (apart from the borrowed the Advent diplomacy tree)
• Custom capital ship, titan, starbase, superweapon and frigate abilities with custom sounds and particle effects

Future Development

I've not worked on the mod for a long time at this point, so it's unlikely there'll be any further additions, but if I did have the time/inclination I'd just finish off the DkR faction with custom structure models, a custom UI and a custom announcer voice, but I've never really considered these things to be particularly important for the core gameplay so never got around to them.

The mod was built for Rebellion v1.96.

Model Credits:
Talon - Scorpion
Bright One, Winged Defender, Z1 Nova & Heavy BOP - P81
Ahllu'anofv-sen, Ael Ra'kholh, Enarrain, Ra'tar, Mogai'Hvei'Khenn & Black Wind - Atolm
Pveer & Pvash Type D - RavenNight
Firehawk & Senator - Thu11s
D'Deridex, Falcon & Raptor Refit - Maxloef1990
Valdore - Redragon/Trekmods
Titan - Maelstrom Mod