Master.of.Orion2_Manual.PDF

Master of Orion II

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv

Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Ending Your Turn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

The System Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Fleet Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Game Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Management Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Fleets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Force Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Weapons Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Miniaturisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

8. SHIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Building Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Designing Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Specials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Refitting Obsolete Ones . . . . . . . . . 111

Notes on Controlling Fleets . . . . . . . . . 111

Crew (Ship’s Marines) . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Boarding Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Invading a Colony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Orbital Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Ground Combat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Assimilate or Be Destroyed . . . . . . 132

11. MANAGING AN EMPIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Imperial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Confederation

(Advanced Feudalism) . . . . . . . . 134

Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Dictatorship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Federation

(Advanced Democracy) . . . . . . . 135

Feudal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Galactic Unification

(Advanced Unification) . . . . . . . 135

Imperium

(Advanced Dictatorship) . . . . . . 135

Unification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Taxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Freighters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Command Rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Morale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Diplomacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Audiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Treaties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Tech Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Espionage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

1. REQUIREMENTS

AND INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The Technical Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Installing the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2. THE UNIVERSAL MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3. BEGINNING A NEW GAME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Galactic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Difficulty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Galaxy Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Galaxy Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Starting Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Number of Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Tactical Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Random Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Antaran Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Race Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Alkari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Bulrathi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Darloks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Elerians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Gnolams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Klackons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Meklars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Mrrshan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Psilons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Sakkra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Silicoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Trilarians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Custom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Colonial Production . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Combat and Espionage . . . . . . . . 17

Governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Special Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5. STAR SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Your Home World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Star Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Mineral Richness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

System Specials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

9. MERCENARY LEADERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

General Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Command Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Administration Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . 116

6. MANAGING A COLONY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

The Colony Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

System Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Now Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Colony View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Building Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

10. COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Getting Into a Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Strategic Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Tactical Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

The Battle Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Moving Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25

Missiles and Torpedoes. . . . . . . 125

Bombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Fighter Craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Other Special Weapons . . . . . . . 126

Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Attacking a Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

12. THE END OF THE GAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Winning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

13. MULTIPLAYER GALAXIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Starting Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

The Sequence of Events . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Real Diplomacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

7. RESEARCH AND

DEVELOPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Application Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

The Big List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

4. THE GALACTIC COMMAND

INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Help and Quit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

One Versatile Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

CREDITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

CUSTOMER SUPPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

ORIONS AND ANTARANS

(Excerpted from ÒPre-Psilonic Galactic CivilizationsÓ Vol. II, by Ectron

Victor, retired Master Adjudicator, Psilon Central History Institute.)

As a story is told and retold over the course of generations, no matter the

attention paid to detail and no matter the importance of the tale, the truth

is gradually nibbled away by little mistakes and innocent exaggerations.

Carried off on these well-intentioned, tiny feet, the facts deteriorate

softly and painlessly into a condition generally referred to as Òshrouded

by time.Ó

The legends concerning the Orions and Antarans are shrouded by time.

What is certain is that at one time both races coexisted in the galaxy. The

scope of their power and technical advancement has surely been

enhanced by hyperbole, but that they were far superior to anything now

known is indisputable. Perhaps it was inevitable that two such behemoths

meet in violence. The legends paint the Antarans as ruthless, xenophobic

killers, but we all know that history is written by the victors.

The Orion-Antaran war was a protracted holocaust of galactic

proportions. While we can never know if they truly flung entire star

systems across deep space as weapons (as the storytellers claim), our

astrophysicists have uncovered evidence of directed energy bursts the

power of which staggers the imagination. That both races had the ability

to raze planets no one contests. The Orions eventually defeated the

Antarans. Rather than exterminating the race, as the stories claim the

Antarans would certainly have done, the Orions chose to imprison their

enemies in a Òpocket dimensionÓÑa volume the size of a single star

system, formed and carved somehow out of the fabric of space-time.

Physicists to this day puzzle over the theory and the technique, but the

result was obvious; the Antarans were banished one and all from

this dimension.

At this point, even the storytellers admit that the legends become vague.

Some time after the war, the Orion race inexplicably disappeared. They

left only two legacies for the galaxyÕs future inhabitants. One was the

tales of their power and legends of the Antaran war; the other is the Orion

system itself. One planet circles this star, and it is reputed to be the

original home world of the Orion race. Despite the incredible potential this

abandoned world must hold, no one has yet plundered or colonised it.

The reason for this is that the system is only uninhabited, not

undefended. The Orions left a single Guardian to protect their home.

Perhaps they intend to return some day.

Perhaps the Antarans intend to return, too.

YouÕve got the box open, the CD-ROM in your sweaty palm, and a manic

gleam in your eyes. What do you do now?

The graphics must be Super VGA quality or better.

There must be a mouse or trackball attached to the computer.

The mouse driver must be fully compatible with the Microsoft

mouse driver.

THE TECHNICAL STUFF

If you think you have all of these, but still have a problem running the

game, please contact Crucial Customer Support for assistance.

For Master of Orion II to work, there are a few things your computer

must have.

The processor has to be a 486 or better. Basically, any computer with

Ò486Ó, or ÒPentiumÓ in its name should do just fine. The system speed

should be at least 66 MHz (megahertz).

INSTALLING THE GAME

Before you can play Master of Orion II , the installation program must copy

some files onto your hard disk. To have it do so, follow these instructions:

You must have a double-speed CD-ROM drive.

Your computer must have at least 8 Mb (megabytes) of RAM (random

access memory) installed. (This is the working memory; do not confuse

it with the Mb of storage space on your hard drive.) We recommend

having 16 Mb of RAM or more for optimum performance.

Turn on your computer. The Microsoft CD-ROM Extension should load

when the computer starts up. (If you have problems installing, this

extension may not be loaded. Check your computer manuals for

instructions on making it load itself.)

You must have either DOS version 5 or later or Windows 95 installed

and running on your computer. Almost all 486 and Pentium computers

include one of these in the standard software package.

Open the CD-ROM drive, place the Master of Orion II CD in there, and

close the drive.

Since the installation program will copy parts of Master of Orion II onto

your hard disk, you must have sufficient storage space on your hard

drive. To find out whether you have enough space in Windows 95,

double-click on the My Computer icon. Change the View setting to

Details , and the amount of empty space on your hard drive (usually

drive ÔCÕ) is listed under Free Space . In DOS, simply type dir at any

prompt, then press E . One of the last things listed is the amount

of free space on the current drive.

W INDOWS 95 USERS :

Master of Orion II is a Windows 95 Òauto-runÓ CD-ROM. That means

that if you are running Windows 95, just putting the disk in the drive for

the first time starts up the installation program.

After youÕve watched the introduction, youÕre left looking at the

Main menu.

Click on Install to continue.

Important Note : With the advent of larger hard disks, a peculiar problem

has arisen. Different sizes of hard disks have different sized ÒclustersÓ

(the smallest unit of file space that the drive can read and write).

Without getting into too much technical detail, the result is this: The

larger your hard disk, the more space each file takes up. To prevent

misunderstandings, weÕve prepared the following chart of necessary

free space (in megabytes) vs. hard disk size for Master of Orion II :

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Disk Size 0Ð128 Mb 256Ð512 Mb 512 MbÐ1 Gb 1Ð2 Gb 2Ð4 Gb

Space Required 74.5 74.5 75 76.5 79

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The only decision you need to make during the installation process is

to what directory you want to install the game. When youÕre prompted,

you can accept the default (c:\mps\orion2), type in a directory path,

or use the Browse button to seek out a directory. Click OK when

youÕre done.

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