Cephalopeian Kingdom

Description

Biological Description

Cephalopeian biology is somewhat vague, they are a race that posesses both mammilian and cephalopod genes. That is to say they seem to be a race of warm-blooded 'squid'-like humanoids. They have a recessive trait of psychic domination that seems to have been activated by unknown technology. Apparantly they do not need to breath and are quite at home within a vaccuum. Their lifespan is 2months 'un-bonded', those 'bonded' with their 'mounts' live a span equal to the mount, which is to say about 50 Earth years.

Society Description

They have a completely feudal society where war and battle hold dominance over all else. There are just no words in their language for 'art' or 'music'. Conversely there are over 100 different words for 'War' and over 50 for 'Slave'. They are controlled by a King, the position is hereditary but replacement by force has been known to happen. Their law system is quite simplistic, he who is strongest is right, the weak are wrong and fit only to be owned. Slavery is a right and not a crime. Indeed the only crimes in thier society are weakness and failure, which they deem one and the same.

General History Description

The Cephalopeia were a race of almost animal-intelligence, a hunter-gathering society, until they encountered a Monolith of alien origin. It altered their DNA, activating a psychic gene that reshaped their lives. With this newfound Mental Domination they enslaved the local spacefaring race of squid-like creatures called the 'Y'Rinth'. They bonded to this race through empathic means, becoming essentially a symbiotic creature similar to the CueCappa. Their lifespan increased as did their power. They now ride these once peaceful beasts to conquer the stars.

Emperor Title and Name

King Octus



Race - Main - Pop

Escort

Frigate

Destroyer

Light Cruiser

Cruiser

Battlecruiser

Battleship

Dreadnought

Space Station

Battle Station

Starbase

Small Transport

Medium Transport

Large Transport

Light Carrier

Carrier

Heavy Carrier

Small Fighter

Medium Fighter

Large Fighter

Colony Ship

Satellite

Mine

Small Troop

Medium Troop

Large Troop

Small Weapon Platform

Medium Weapon Platform

Large Weapon Platform

Fleet

Satellite Group

Mine Group

Fighter Group

Drone

Shield

Big Explosion

AI files

(Tested in SE4 Version 1.49)

by Steve Faught (Deathstalker)

cephalopeia_AI_General.txt
cephalopeia_AI_Settings.txt
cephalopeia_AI_Research.txt
cephalopeia_AI_DesignCreation.txt
cephalopeia_AI_Anger.txt
cephalopeia_AI_Politics.txt
cephalopeia_AI_Fleets.txt
cephalopeia_AI_Construction_Vehicles.txt
cephalopeia_AI_Construction_Facilities.txt

Notes:

This is my brother Damián's first race style. It has received some good critics, but he is not very satisfied with the general look. He recently changed the race portrait with this nice photo-composition he found somewhere on the web, and says he wants to revamp the whole shipset, but I didn't see him work in that. The new AI made by Deathstalker make completes the shipset to make them a threatening opponent as an AI race. I love how he managed to write the interesting and detailed biological, society and history descriptions to improve what Damián had written, but keeping not only the basic idea but most details from the original ones.
And finally I (Andrés) copied the data from Deathstalker's .EMP files into the AI_General file and re-masked all pictures that is something that was disturbing me since I first noticed the problem. Now dark areas will not look transparent when a "ship" is displayed above a background picture. So now, I think we can consider this is the final version and the Cepaloeian Kingdom becomes a must have race for any Space Empires IV player!

This Race Style has been made by Damián Lescano. I've posted it in my site with the author consent. If you have a site, and you want to host it, you should contact the author first.

Version:

Installation:

If you have the full version, unzip all files into a folder named "cephalopeia" in your "...\Space Empires IV\Pictures\Races\" folder.
Also move or copy "cephalopeia 2k.emp; cephalopeia 3k.emp; cephalopeia 5k.emp; " to your "...\Space Empires IV\Empires\" folder.
(Note that I didn't save any directory structure in the .zip file. In my experience that is harder to do and seems to generate more confusion than help. I named the .zip file "cephalopeia.zip" since most popular zip-manager-programs use the name of the .zip file as default extract path.)
If you're using the demo, the problem is that the demo has the option to install new race styles disabled. The only way to try any new race styles before having the full version of the game is by renaming all the files to overwrite one of the existing ones.