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Coruscant - the seat of government for the Galactic Empire and a planet entirely covered by a city.

Dagobah has been added to the mod as shown below.

Since Episode III Yoda has been hiding on Dagobah near a dark force cave which prevented Darth Sideous from finding him. During gameplay it is important that the Empire not be allowed to colonize Dagobah as Imperial Scouts would find Yoda and report to the Emperor.

If the Galactic Empire arrives in the Dagobah System Yoda will send a force message to Obi Wan Kenobi or Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance will have to concentrate all efforts in removing the Empire from Dagobah.

If the Empire stays on Dagobah then the following picture could happen.

I've been monitoring this thread and I have to say, this is looking good. Keep up the good work....GP

There is a star map with an outer rim by the way. You could use it as your map. If you need a play tester, Email me....GP

The Death Star in orbit around Geonosis.




Obi Wan Kenobi: That’s no moon…it’s a space station.

Han: It’s too big to be a space station.

Luke: I have a very bad feeling about this.

ORIGINAL: btd64

I've been monitoring this thread and I have to say, this is looking good. Keep up the good work....GP

Thanks btd64

Hopefully everyone can be a tester next month.

I am currently adding the ships for the Empire as these ships need to be sized correctly in reference to the Death Star.

Have a look at the picture below and it shows the size of the Imperial Star Destroyers next to the Death Star.

I will probably not be able to replicate this difference in size accurately but would like to try and get something close.

Ideally I would like to increase the size of planets but for example Continental planets are restricted to 400 in size.

Once the Death Star and Star Destroyers are added I can then add in the X-Wings and Tie Fighters.

Doing size comparisions of the original Death Star to other planets:

The Death Star is :

1.4% the size of Geonosis
1.52% the size of Tatooine
1.30% the size of Coruscant



In comparision the size of a Star Destroyer is :

1% the size of the Death Star.


This would tie in with the size of the Star Destroyer to Death Star in the previous picture.

Below is the first look at the Galactic Empire ships near Coruscant.
The ships were placed into Distant Worlds Universe using the editor to test the look.
I am adding the ships with a different view than what other mods have shown the ships.


- The Death Star is no longer a Moon but is a ship.
- This means the Death Star can move through hyperspace when required
- With my mod I am trying the look of the ships not being a view directly from above
- Every ship in the mod will show the ship from the rear looking at the right hand side.

- The size of the Tie Fighters and Imperial Shuttle hopefully look similar to how they look in the films.
- In the picture below it looks like the Star Destroyer is smaller because it is further ahead.
- While the Star Destroyer and Shuttle have blue engine glare the Tie Fighters have never had this effect.

- The sizing of the planets and Death Star compared to the ships is explained as follows:
: The Tie Fighter, Shuttle and Star Destroyer are closer to the player
: Coruscant and the Death Star, though much bigger in size..are smaller as they are further away

Imperial shipyards will be a target of the Rebel Alliance as they battle to stop production of Imperial Star Destroyers.

Some more testing of the Imperial ships.

The ships I had before were tested but were not that great in the mod and have redone them.
Below is the picture of am Imperial Star Destroyer.

As you can see this is not the traditional top down ship view normally seen in Distant Worlds.

While the sizing of the Star Destroyer will be finalized when the Millenium Falcon, X-Wings , Tie-Fighters and so on have been added, it is still expected that the Star Destroyer will be roughly a similar size to what is shown above.

I am trying to convey the power of a Star Destroyer when it appears and the difficulty of trying to destroy it.

To ensure that computers do not go into melt down with a 100 Star Destroyers spread around the mod, I intend to put in place a procedure that will limt Star Destroyers and also ensure there is only one Death Star.

The other Star Destroyer in this mod will be the Super Star Destroyer Executor that Darth Vader was on in The Empire Strikes Back.

Working on the Executor in Photoshop before adding to the mod.

Have been working on the Star Destroyer Executor for last 2 hours and have almost got the basic ship in place.
Once I am happy with the look I can add the lights and such as seen in Return of the Jedi.

Below is the Executor before it plunged into the second Death Star

Version 1 of the Executor..... still some work to do on it as well as final sizing.

Due to it's size I am looking at having only one Super Star Destroyer Executor..... with the Executor and other Star Destroyers the Empire will be strong enough compared to the other races.

There is also the Death Star when it is built.

A new race added to the mod after 6 hours photoshop work.........

Creating the portraits for the characters and races often requires a lot of work to build the character itself.

This character shown below will also have a place in the mod in his fight against the Empire.