House of Style

Custom Races for Space Empires IV

Introduction
*Update -- 8/27/01* Hi! Have been out of touch for a while (yahoo even unplugged my email, those cheap Ferengi), but I'm back and will be updating this page with all the many new races that have been created since my last update -- and that's quite a few. Also I'll be fixing the broken links on this site, posting some new files, and so on. Also, I've been having fun with the new map editor to created the Amalgamated scenario map. That's about 30% done, I figure within a couple weeks the whole map, with starting places for most of the races, will be done and I will offer the whole map here for you to enjoy (with predefined starting locations for the races). I'm also working on a Cylon race file. --Jonas Welcome to the House of Style, a repository for user-created race styles for Space Empires IV, the excellent space strategy game from Malfador Machinations (if you haven't tried the free, 100-turn demo, try it here). A unique feature of this game is the ability to create custom empires, complete with ship art and hand-tailored artificial intelligence and descriptions of their governments, societies, and home worlds. These can be unique alien races invented by players, or they can be tributes to the great starfaring empires drawn from the classics of science fiction. While there are several great sites out there that host user-created races (see links), the House of Style is dedicated solely to hosting the great races from movies, television, novels, anime, comic books, and roleplaying games. So if you ever wanted to fling your Super Star Destroyers against a pack of Federation starships, or pit Cylon bases stars against the Minbari navy, then you've come to the right place. Unfortunately I can't create thirty or forty different race styles, so that's where you come in. If you've made a great sf race and want me to host it or point to your page, tell me and I'll see what I can do -- I will try to update about once a week.

Introduction

Update -- 8/27/01

Hi! Have been out of touch for a while (yahoo even unplugged my email, those cheap Ferengi), but I'm back and will be updating this page with all the many new races that have been created since my last update -- and that's quite a few. Also I'll be fixing the broken links on this site, posting some new files, and so on.

Also, I've been having fun with the new map editor to created the Amalgamated scenario map. That's about 30% done, I figure within a couple weeks the whole map, with starting places for most of the races, will be done and I will offer the whole map here for you to enjoy (with predefined starting locations for the races).

I'm also working on a Cylon race file.

--Jonas

Welcome to the House of Style, a repository for user-created race styles for Space Empires IV, the excellent space strategy game from Malfador Machinations (if you haven't tried the free, 100-turn demo, try it here). A unique feature of this game is the ability to create custom empires, complete with ship art and hand-tailored artificial intelligence and descriptions of their governments, societies, and home worlds. These can be unique alien races invented by players, or they can be tributes to the great starfaring empires drawn from the classics of science fiction.

While there are several great sites out there that host user-created races (see links), the House of Style is dedicated solely to hosting the great races from movies, television, novels, anime, comic books, and roleplaying games. So if you ever wanted to fling your Super Star Destroyers against a pack of Federation starships, or pit Cylon bases stars against the Minbari navy, then you've come to the right place.

Unfortunately I can't create thirty or forty different race styles, so that's where you come in. If you've made a great sf race and want me to host it or point to your page, tell me and I'll see what I can do -- I will try to update about once a week.

Recent Updates
`02/01/01`	Big update after a long delay: graphically improved and very playable versions of the Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians (with new AI!) are available, as are quick and dirty recipes for the Tholians, Gorn, and Ferengi: all this and more on the trek page. Also adding a miscellaneous area to hold styletester.exe, dsgnname.zip, gamefonts.zip, and other utilities.
`01/16/01`	Added Cardassians, Romulans, Klingons, and another Federation set. Minor tweaks to the Borg file (some missing values in the AI text files, a lot of errors in the Speech file).
`01/15/01`	Finished Federation version 0.91 (graphic tweaks). Finished and uploaded the Borg Collective.
`01/05/01`	Finished Feds version 0.9. Added links page to House of Style. Added Updates section to House of Style.
`01/02/01`	Full version of SE IV is in.
`12/25/00`	Completed map, initial planning, for Amalgamated Universe scenario. Still waiting for final version of Space Empires IV. Started design of Federation 0.9. Just need carriers, freighters, troops, and weapon platforms.
`12/21/00`	Started HTML design of House of Style.
`12/20/00`	Created Ferengi (neutral race only) version 0.9. Haven't uploaded it yet, sorry!
`11/30/00`	Started designing Amalgamated Universe scenario.
`11/20/00`	Found Kuat Shipyards and other player-created races.
`11/15/00`	Downloaded Space Empires IV demo.

Current, Future & Suggested Styles
Star Trek Federation Borg Klingons Romulans Cardassians Tholians Gorn Ferengi Hydrans Lyrans-Kzinti Dominion Species 8472 Vulcans Anime Robotech Voltron Star Blazers Sci-Fi Film 2001: A Space Odyssey Titan A.E. The Black Hole The Matrix	Star Wars Imperials Rebels Trade Federation Mon Calamari Nal Hutt Marvel Universe Skrull Kree Shi'ar Dire Wraiths Traveller Zhodani Vegan Warg'r Star Frontiers Vrusk Yazir Dralasite	Babylon 5 Earth Alliance Narn (Rambie's working on this now, should be done soon). Minbari Centauri Vorlons Shadows Battlestar Galactica Lost Colonies Cylons Wing Commander Terran Confederation Kilrathi Others Puppeteers Berserkers Byakhee Greys
If there's no link, that means there's no page built for that race yet, and certainly no graphics or race styles for you to download. Please, help out the SE IV community and get cracking on some of these races! Then send them in here or make a page of your own.
Amalgamated Universe Scenario
Okay I admit, I have an ulterior motive for collecting all these science fiction races and encouraging others to start working on good race sets and AI. Remember, Malfador has promised a scenario editor for Space Empires IV, and if it's as powerful as I hope it is, it should be possible to create a single scenario that includes many of the great science fiction races of all time on a single map in a non-stop struggle for control of the 250-odd stars on an SE IV map. How cool would that be? Cylons versus the Borg. Romulans against the Minbari. A fleet of Death Stars and Super Star Destroyers crashing through the Bajoran wormhole and into the heart of the Federation. That would be very cool indeed! So go here to see my preliminary design ideas for the Amalgam Universe scenario, and send in any ideas you have. _

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