Author: Starside R&D

The First Interstellar War...or as the Cap Troopers called it, simply, The Bug War....

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Although the Terrans refer to the "Bugs" as Arachnids, they are not related to any Earth arachnid species and are more insectoid than arachnid in general form. However, first impressions are hard to overcome. After the nightmare attack on a defenseless Terran colony, the only survivors were convinced they were attacked by "a madman's conception of a giant, intelligent spider."

The history of the Arachnids is cloudy, but we believe it went something like this...
As the Arachnids evolved, the brain caste realized the world they had always known was no longer big enough for them. To this end they started ejecting queen eggs into space to seek out and colonize worlds by riding the cosmic currents. For 1000s of years they spread through their arm of the galaxy with no opposition. Infesting suitable planets and eradicating the former owners.

Eventually they ran into a race that had developed to the point of colonizing their own planets. This race was humanoid and had established colonies on 2 planets in their home system. After taking over one of their planets, the Arachnids came under attack from space by the former owners. This concept was foreign to them as it had never happened before in their races memory. Their brain caste engineered a queen egg that could live in space, and was released to seek out a airless asteroid or planetoid that they could colonize. This queen was able to breed a new class of space born warrior bugs. At 1st the new ship bugs were a basic fighting ship. More than capable of dealing with these new threats.

They spread further. Then they met the Tophets. The Tophets are a very advanced race, very close to the Terran Federation in technology, if not in civilization size. The Arachnids were driven back at 1st, but quickly bred newer ships that stood mandible to nose with the Tophets. Advanced as they were, the “Skinnies”, as the Terrans later came to call them, weren't a large enough race to defeat the bugs outright. Ultimately they entered a "alliance" with them. The bugs would not destroy them as long as they did what they were told. This concept was foreign to the bugs as well, but they realized they might eventually run into a greater threat than even they could deal with. Better to have the Skinnies as allies/slaves to help them than risk being caught in a war they couldn't win.

Enter the Terrans. The Federation is as big as the Arachnid empire and have an instinctive fear of bugs. Couple that with an advanced space military and technology and you have a big problem for the Arachnids. This new threat was so great that even forcing the skinnies to fight wouldn't be enough. New and bigger, more powerful warship were bred to combat this new threat to their total dominance of the galaxy.

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Currently being developed by Starside R&D, this is a Total Space Conversion mod for the game Star Wars: EaW Forces of Corruption from Petroglyph Studios.
You decide who has the right to survive, the Terran Federation or the Arachnids and their allies, the Skinnies. It will include space only skirmish and Galactic Conquest and is based on various aspects taken from the movie, animated TV series, and the original book.

Command your Fleet in the silence of space, be it the Terran Federation or the Arachnid/Skinny Alliance. Use old favorites as well as brand new units developed for this conflict.

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