We are the elected senators of the Alliance. We hope you will join our cause against the tyrant Confederates. You are hereby given a certificate of authorization to join the Alliance Defense Force or the Alliance Offensive Fleet. The Alliance need help. The Navy's powers are limited due to lack of territory. If the Confederation concentrates iall of its forces to attack us, we will be defeated. We need a mercenary that will be able to work for money and technology, and you are chosen. If we need any help, someone will introduce himself to you and brief you on our mission that needs to be accomplished. Of course, you may reject our offer, but we will reward you weapons and outfits that every merchant or mercenary could dream of if you join and accomplish any of our missions.
You may report to the nearest Alliance Defense Force branch office on any of our planets to look for missions. You are named the rank of lieutenant and you may command any of our capable officers below your rank. We are looking forward to your recruitment meeting.
Good luck and Long Live the Galactic Alliance!
This is my third plug. Note this is a total rewrite of the 1.x versions. Please remove all previous versions. This plug adds four new governments and modified the Merchant government, the Galatic Alliance, pro-Alliance corporation Liu Enterprises, the rebels that against the Alliance are the New Rebels, and the new alien race the Zorgon Empire (without stellar objects or ships). 27 new stellar objects to visit, and took over one Confed system, the Polaris system. One hidden system that will appear when you are in the colonization missions. This new prelease version contains 116 missions will keep you busy and give you all the prototypes both from the Confed and Rebel. And it has three mission series deals with the aliens. One of the alien mission for the Alliance will give you the Alliance and Confed ships as a reward. And another series with the New Rebellion will give you the New Rebel destroyer.
There are 6 Alliance warships I've designed, they are the Alliance patrol fighter, the Alliance Striker, the Allied Frigate, the powerful Alliance heavy cruiser, and the undefeated Alliance Carrier. You could buy all of them at the second missions series of the alien mission, (HINT: This missions series deals with a unknown invader)
There is 1 new ship for the New Rebels, the NRS Destroyer.
I developed six weapons and three outfit items. The weapons are the plasma beam, fusion missile, Star Blaster, particle decay laser, Bomb-13, and the powerful photon torpedo. The photon torpedo has a new graphic, al the rest of the weapons have graphics taken from EV itself. The weapons you can get either from the missions or from the Oufitter on Yiming's World. The oufits are the superarmor, which is double the strength of the tritanium armor. The Alliance ID, which clears legal records from all systems. Then comes the Confed gunboat, which you could only purchase after a mission series with the Letheans. Finally the hyperdrive accelerator, which accelerates the speed of hyperspace of your ship by one day. Alliance ID is the only one you could buy, others come from missions.
The Galactic Alliance 2.0pre7 (current version) is a prelease version of the new Galactic Alliance 2.0. This version implements the land defense ships with the permission from the author of Planetary Defenses plugin author Howard Lopez. I strongly suggest you download his plugin because this plug only implement the land defense for Alliance planets while his plug adds land defense for all planets. I added an spacecraft carrier in Dethor, check it out, you could land on it! This version also includes a mission series to destroy a heavily defended planet with a new graphic for the planet, thanks to David Padula for the graphics and procedures to make the planet destructable. Thanks to David Padula again for developing graphics of planetary landscapes. Also thanks to Adam Randall for his graphics of the Alliance Carrier and the Alliance troop transport, taken from his plugins. I included a series of missions for the Letheans too, check it out!
Future Plans:
I still need new graphics for the Alliance patro ship, striker, frigate, and cruiser. Contact me if you can help.
More missions. Again, email me if you have any ideas about some missions.
All the above just needs a little patience and appreciation.
Thanks to all of you who donated your time and work to my plugin, and the 2.0 version is made greater than ever. Galactic Alliance II is almost ready again! I NEED NEW SHIP GRAPHICS FOR THE ALLIANCE NAVY SHIPS BEFORE I COULD RELEASE THE 2.0 VERSION. PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR DETAILS IF YOU COULD HELP DEVELOPING THE GRAPHICS.
Version History:
2.0pre7 - Major additions! Added Anubis and New Lethe systems. Modified the Merchant government and added the Merchant Navy. More missions. Fixes a bug that involves mission bits. Added Confed gunboat outfit for Letheans, accessible only after a mission series. Removed some STRs resources to fix a bug that prevents some outfit names to show. Edited the Readme to remove grammar errors and misspellings.
2.0pre6 - adds the NRS Destroyer, graphics by the super artist David Padula. Adds more missions, total missions is 100! One new AI person.
2.0pre5.1 - fixes a bug that prevents the graphics of Bomb-13 to show. Fixes a major bug that prevents several systems to show.
2.0pre5 - Major additions! and major bug! - added Prison 12 and Fringe World II, more missions. Changed the landscape for Yiming's World and Stardock Beta. Graphics by David Padula (of Yiming's World). Redeveloped the Readme file. Added New Rebel government with 1 new system. Added Battle System for the Alliance. Added 1 new weapon. One bug that prevents systems to show.
2.0pre4 - major bug fix release. Decreased total size by 200k by removing useless graphics. Recreated the A.S.S. Enterprise graphic with help of Robert Bakke. Wrote in the mystery of 2.0b3, b4 and beta testing versions of the 1.0 releases into the Readme Version History section. Adds 1 more mission.
2.0pre3 - New Addition- adds 2 new ships, one more weapon with graphics. Correct grammar errors in the Readme. Added Senator's note.
Major Success! 2.0pre2 - adds a missions series about aliens and destroy a planet. Graphics and procedures by David Padula.
2.0pre1 - adds the land defenses, thanks to Howard Lopez. One more weapon. More missions. Adds an dockable carrier stellar object in Dethor. Changed the story completely. Rewrote the Readme file.
2.0b9 - Adds the weapon Star Blaster. More missions.
2.0b8 - adds a new hidden system that will let you to colonize it by a series of 7 missions. Added PICTs for the Alliance ships in the shipyard. Thanks to Nall575@aol.com .
2.0b7 - adds a new weapon, the fusion missile.
2.0b6 - fixes a few minor bugs. Adds five missions.
2.0b5 - adds new ships and graphics for the Alliance Space Navy. Fixes a bug that prevents the alignment of the Alliance ships to show.
2.0b3, b4 (private, not publically released) - fixes bugs, rewrote several aspects, added the Liu Enterprises.
2.0b2 - rewrote the plugin from scratch to fix two major bugs. Redesigned the missions to fix a few bugs contained in the previous versions. The Alliance Space Navy and Alliance Supply Force was created.
2.0b1 - (private) removed Lunatica, The Alliance freighter fleet was created, although with bugs.
1.x releases
1.1 - Maintaince release. Redeveloped several aspects of the plug.
1.0 - initial release. Created the Readme file.
Beta Versions (P means private)
1.0b3 - Redeveloped all missions due to some problems of mission bits.
(P)1.0b2 - removed Alliance Central due to bugs.
(P)1.0b1-redeveloped the plug with a newer version of Ev-Edit. Introduced planet Alliance Central.
1.0a2-renamed Peng's World to Mars II. Fixed a mission bug.
1.0a1-created Yiming's World, Lunatica, Stardock Beta, Peng's World. The Alliance was created.
Compatibility:
Planetary Defenses 1.1 by Howard Lopez
I STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO REMOVE ANY OTHER PLUGS FOR EV SINCE THE IDs MAY CONFLICT.
I probably made some mistakes, so email me at pliu@utkux.utcc.utk.edu to report any bugs. This plug is emailware (that means send a message to me if you like it, if not tell me what would you like) and Use-at-your-own-risk. Please either send a praise message or a bug report to the address above if you like it and want it to be continue updated. If you could offer new graphics for Alliance ships, all the better. I nor Ambrosia nor the distributers of this plugin will be responsible for any damage made to your computer by this plugin or any other plugins made by your truly. (I don't think there is a large risk).
Credits
I thank the author of EV-Edit for the editor I used to make this plug, and I thank the author of Schmelta-V which I used for the missions. I used ResEdit for those bugs that EV-Edit left in the plug. Thanks to Nall575@aol.com for the advice to make the shipyard PICT appear. I thank Howard Lopez, the author of Planetary Defenses with his excellent graphics. I thank David Padula for the graphics of NRS Destroyer and procedures to make a planet destructible and the planetary landscapes. I thank Adam Randall for the graphics of the carrier and troop transport. I thank Robert Bakke for giving me the way to implement custom planet images. I thank my son Yiming Liu for creating this whole plug and put it under my name. I still thank Ambrosia and Matt for make this GREAT GAME of EV!!
