Use diplomacy, espionage, real time ship combat, and research to define a path for your civilization or join one of the elder species as they fight for control. Play as one of 10 available races, each with unique characteristics and behaviors. Use combinations of special systems and weapons to defeat your enemies. From small frigates to planet-killing behemoths, you can upgrade your vessels with beams, fighters, missiles, and more. Run a shadow empire and benefit from your spy network through sabotaging fleets, bombing infrastructure, stealing technology, creating the “right” political climate by inciting rebellions.ĭesign starships and engage in pausable real time tactical combat. Guide or exploit weaker civilizations to become assets or weapons. Each species has unique leaders with personalities and cultural traditions that direct their choices. Shape Galactic Council politics by negotiating trade treaties and alliances. Fend off grand menaces as they attempt to disrupt and direct progress, and gain prestige by defending the galaxy against those who would destroy it. Your race will have many obstacles to overcome if they are to survive.įace rival species, including the elder races who view themselves as the rightful guardians of the galaxy. Form coalitions to survive the coming war, or discover the secrets of ascension that the elder races fear. Despite all of the power that the Rigelans have, in the end they are flawed since their actions are driven out of a fear of being unable to ascend and their species eventually ending.In a new grand strategy adventure, guide your race through a galaxy in turmoil. The Rigelans giving FTL technology and driving species down a certain historic trajectory is similar to what actions of the aliens behind the artifacts in Clark’s stories. Clark’s short story “The Sentinel” and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The plot macguffin of the Rigelan is also meant to follow Arthur C. The Rigelan obsession with an orderly universe following their plan and actively guiding species to follow their plan drives their cold war with the Arcturans. The Rigelans are heavily influenced by the various energy based “godlike aliens” in Star Trek such as the Q and Organians along with Babylon 5’s Vorlons. The Rigelans gave FTL technology to all of the player species and aim to convince the different species to support their plan of constructing more spheres instead of ascending. The Rigelans are the first of our two elder species, and the titular “Lords of Rigel.” They control the Dyson Sphere of Rigel at the start of the game. 'Well just tell them theyre third equal with the angels' said Harry. 'We dont know birth order for these five' said Daphne, preparing to leave St Mungos. Rigel Samuel was an acceptable name for the other boy. Out of fear for a war that will destroy the galaxy, the Rigelans created the Galactic Council with the Arcturans, hoping to sway new species to accept their grand plan. A day later Daphne accepted graciously that Hesper Lily and Euphemia Roxanne were family names for the other two daughters. The reappearance of Arcturus has started a cold war. The Rigelans were able to send probes to every system that could harbor life in the galaxy with an invitation to join them. As time passed, the galaxy began to heal from the war. Rigel was locked at the heart of the galaxy behind impenetrable spatial anomalies and Arcturus vanished. The Arcturans resisted, and the Great War nearly destroyed the galaxy. For millenia the Rigelans have worked on their “grand design” a stellar conservation project to convert the entire galaxy into Dyson Spheres to guide organic evolution along the paths they desire. Whether they constructed the sphere as they claim, or are but its most recent occupants is unknown. They claim home to Rigel, a Dyson Sphere at the center of the galaxy. How they came to be a spacefaring species is lost to history. The Rigelans are self-replicating plasmas that live in the coronas of stars. Your race will have many obstacles to overcome if. We guide you, we serve you, and you will in turn serve us.” Form coalitions to survive the coming war, or discover the secrets of ascension that the elder races fear.
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