Eclipse Second Dawn for the Galaxy Master of Orion Reskin [Work in Progress]

[Gigazaur]

Hello everyone,

The Species Template board from the Kickstarter of Eclipse Second Dawn for the Galaxy has been released.

I have always thought that the computer game Master of Orion was one of the chief inspirations for this game, so I went and remade the Eclipse races into the races from Master of Orion, which I feel best fit their special abilities.

This is how I reassigned the species and why:

Humans stay Humans
Eridani Empire becomes Gnolam - main reason is the initial wealth
Hydran Proggress become Psilon - research benefits
Plant become Klackon - main reason is hive intelligence - once control is lost population dies out
The Descendants of Draco become the Silicoid - the only non-organic race (except for Mekklar, which I reserved for the expansion race Pixys Unity) and as such exempt from the life-hating ancient guardians
Mechanema becomes Terrans - again, a better fit would have been the Mekklar, but they are reserved
Orion Hegemony becomes Bulrathi - the brutality and ground supremacy fit the special ability to destroy all rival populations automatically when they gain control

The Expansion races, which will surely come at some point I reassigned as follows:
The Magellans become the Trilarians - main reason is their ancient and mysterious nature, and the Trilarians have that Cthulhu vive
The Exiles become the Darlok - they start with stealth technology
The Rho Indi syndicate become Mrrshan - combat oriented light predators
The Enlightened of Lyra become the Alkari - lofty spiritual beings

The Octantis races bekome the Sakkra - evolution oriented gene manipulators
The Shapers of Dorado become the Elerian - highly advanced technology allowing them time jumps
The Pixys Unity become the Mekklar - a race which would have fitted  two other slots as well, but is best suted  for the nano-tech transformer-style gameplay of the Pixys

For those of you familiar with both Eclipse and the Master of Orion races, what is your opinion on these race reassignments?

Since Second Dawn introduces gameplay tweaks and only the base game races have been revealed so far, I only did the original 7 species. The other races will be done when they release the tweaks to them in the expansions for Eclipse, which are sure to come.

Here is a link to the files:
https://dox.abv.bg/download?id=5a8128d8cf# -> download link

and here is how they turned out:















As a long-term project, I plan to remake all the hexes using Master of Orion art and create 3D printer files for the various ships structures and markers.

I was thinking of remaking all the tech tiles with Master of Orion techs and artwork, but I am of the opinion that would most likely lead to confusion in long-term eclipse plyers and any additional artwork will diminish the readability of the tech tiles making the game less playable.

Since I am a huge fan of both the Eclipse board game and the Master of Orion computer games (with the exception of MOO III, which if you ask me never existed ), I believe THIS is what both Eclipse and the Master of Orion board games should have been. I am appalled that it did not happen and I plan to fix this wrong in the world.

[daishinaga]

Is there anyway to have an alternate why to download, I have tried numerous times to download the "Eclipse2_species_open_20 ... psd" file and I keep getting a Network Error after about 30MB downloaded. I was able to get everything else, it's just that file.

Thanks

[Gigazaur]

I just tried downloading it myself and it seems to work fine.

[daishinaga]

I just tried downloading it myself and it seems to work fine.

It just might be the connection between servers based on where each of us are located, just frustrating for me. I keep trying, every so often.

Update: It finally downloaded completely.

[olferuk]

Thank you for your good work! Now I looked back at the old art and it made me sick 

Could you please also provide a PnP from your scans?

[Gigazaur]

It has been several years since I started this. I have made many games since then, and now finally I am coming back to this project of passion.

I have modeled the ships for the species and updated the player boards accordingly.













Here are the files including the 3D models (this is not the full game yet - just the species files for the Master of Orion reskin):

https://dox.abv.bg/download?id=b241607515#



In my original designs, I had assigned the Terran Khanate to take the role of the Machenema, keeping the Meklar for the role of the Pixys Unity. So far however, the Pixys have not appeared in any of the Eclipse expansions, so I may end up having the Meklar take the role of the Mechanema. The Mechanema race is thus unfinished.