The story starts out right after the Cylon regeneration ship was destroyed and some kind of energy surge caused both cylon and colonial fleets including 2 base stars the galactica and the pegusus to make an uncontrolled FTL jump to a new sector of space. Both fleets badly damaged from the jump start exploring the new sector and discover their were once cylons and humans fighting for it long ago by finding abandon bases, weapon platforms derilict ships and active hostile drones.
The game play has a tutorial that gets you started on the game and faction oriented missions given out by Adama for the colonials and a 1 by the cylons. The majority of the game though is map and resource controll with large fleets of human players working together to controll sectors mine them and push their way to take out the enemies battle star or base star. their are around 40 different systems with resources like tylium wich is mined for your own fuel and basic supply and upgrades, titanium that is used to repair your ship and is salvaged into tylium and the rarest of all water that can be salvaged for cubix witch are like cpoints for us sto players. major ship purchases and better weapons are procured through cubix so most of the fighting happens around systems with water planetoids that after scanned a faction controleld mining ship lands and begins extracting giving it all to your of dividing it between your squadron.
squadron play is essential as a level 5 in a raider i could not hold a planetoid long by myself but with a squadron we can quickly survey several system plant mines and once they are attacked by ai or colonial players do a group FTL jump to defend it optomizing our farming.
I stumbled on the importance on squadrons by accident. overy so often they have game wide tournaments that track your kills throught the time and reward you. i entered a contested tournament zone with a large fleet of 30 cylon ships rangeing from strike (fighters) escorts (mid sized ships specialized in combat support or electronic warfare) and a few line shuips (behomoth ships that can fight mid and large hsips on their own but a wing of srikes with support could take them out). we drove out the colonial fleet after a real intense battle and i killed a col (colonial) miner and requested a clon miner to start. without knowing it I stole the mine from the squad thathad lost it and have been protecting it all day. I was harvesting 480 waster by myself and being new to the game and them willing to teach me squaded with them to share it gaoining 180 water every 2 minutes. together we were able to controll the sytem set up mining operation on 2 others and captured a whole system creating a cylon outpost ( a large ai ship where you can dock and repair and resupply).
This game turned out to be amazing with tons of players and huge system maps with potential for truly epic space combat please come and join me as a cylon on the geminon server. give me your email address so I can get rewards for invites.
Also the game is organized from being squads that are local teams wings are the guilds and fleet is all cylon player and ai controlled.
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