Personally I think I'd call that scavenger the Tick class. Canine race. biological weapon. And it looks like a bug.

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Still doesn't look like a star fighter to me. Maybe if you got rid of the neck. Yeah I'm being a pain I know. The rest are perfect.

Or design a new cockpit that covers the neck area.

Finding some of the names is hard. For the Lyrans I needed feline names but what to do for a spore ship? I picked Manticore-class. Part feline; part serpent; part man. The biological weapon could represent the serpent part so I figured it worked.

Okay.....here are two different versions of the Sparrow. Let me know what you think. It should make it look more like a fighter. But my personal creative opinion is that the original Sparrow looks more bird like.

All righty! Here is the Paravian Survey Cruiser and the Light Cruiser. Tell me what you think.

Hey AF, what races will be playable?

The United Federation of Planets; Klingon Empire; Romulan Star Empire; Kzinti Hegemony; Lyran Star Empire; Hydran Kingdom; Gorn Confederation; Tholian Holdfast; and the Interstellar Concordium.

Ok guys I said I was going to be taking some liberties on the appearance of the Tholians.

For those of you who know what they look like the Tholians have triangular spacecraft with annoying angles for those using the assembly parts of Galactic Civilizations.

Another thing to keep in mind with the Tholians is that when it comes to "alien", ships belonging to the Tholians fit the term. There ships are unlike anything else in the galaxy which is probably because they aren't from our galaxy.

Tholians aren't flesh in blood. They are rock. And there ships look a lot like that. They look like they carved and polished ships from solid rock.

So in sacrificing their basic shape I decided on concentrating on giving them their "living rock" look of ships.

A Tholian Webspinner from the Original series:


Now the Tholian Webspinner in Galactic Civilizations 2:





There is a larger version of it included called Widow-class(Medium)

Here is the Arachnid class patrol ship:




The Tholians of Federation and Empire are refugees from another Galaxy. Fleeing from the slaves they once mastered they came to our galaxy and established the Tholian Holdfast. Limited on building supplies and technology they found a small "chunk" of Klingon space and called it home becoming enemies of the Klingons forever. Still lacking technology they started to take from their neighbors. The Klingons always spoiling for a fight managed to leave pieces of their ships for the Tholians to play with thus was born the Tholian: TK5




The next one isn't really a Tholian ship at all but I've included it into their fleet.
The Aurora class. In the attempt of early star trek to save a few dollars like when they gave Romulans the same warbirds as the klingons they needed to make a "space yaht". This was called the S.S. Aurora and was in the Original series episode called:
"The Way to Eden". What they did was take the Tholian ship and addd warp engines to it. If you watch the remastered episode, well they completely changed it.
So since the Tholians already are known for their klingon hybrid ships I decided to add the Aurora in to the mix as a Tholian/Federation Hybrid.

Original Aurora:


Galacatic Civilizations 2 Aurora:




Ok I'm back to the shipyard working again. I got 13 more Tholians to do.

I thought you and J were going to come up with some ideas and images for events.

I never said I didn't like them. You gave me ideas.

Oh, and you still grounded?

so all thats left is the Interstellar Concordium right? and also i more qwestion are you going to put it in the libary or some where else becase the ships the race with tech tree and improvement and all the other stuff like the maps and the Campaign. i think this is going to be bigger then 20MBs so i think you are going have to put them in parts in the library, or put it some where else.

atlas7d is about ready to take over authoring of many ships from you, AF... do something about it!

Collaboration is pure magic and can only result in ONE important thing; terrific quality of the Fed/Emp mod.



Whadda'ya'say, StarDock - shouldn't you seriously consider breaking that limit to a MUCH bigger bytes count (dunno, 80 or 100 even!) to provide us with a more efficient bandwidth access pattern?

I could use more too for; X-Worlds ++ XW-Planets ++ XW-Movies ++ XW-Ships, etc.
And, eventually for the CoSH mod (as of today, it packs up at 17MBs and there's only 12 Homeworlds and 24 Minors added in since version 05-A!).

Oh, I'm sorry AF.

Felt like I was apologizing for my Tholian design. You guys like them?