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Sacrifice of Angels 0.9R

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.9R FULL] Released

Minor Factions

This release features several unique factions with their custom Minor Faction abilities. These factions have a diverse roster of offensive and support oriented abilities, as well as powerful defensive capabilities and their own flexible spawning system for sending out faction matched raids.

Baran

  • Baran's Raiders - An outfit of pirates using modified Miradorn Raiders with energy dampening shields, gives access to raids and can bolster their defensive fleet.
  • Black Market - A marketplace run by the Orions, selling Regenerative Armor and Interceptors.
  • Breen Pirates - An outfit of Pirates using Breen ships, gives access to raids.
  • Consortium - A Ferengi run market hub for resource trading.
  • Federation Separatists - Ex Federation officers that have hijacked ships and joined Maquis Resistance fighters, gives access to defensive fleets and insurgency operations.
  • Ferengi Pirates - Ferengi privateers that send out powerful raiders and sell random captured ships and resources, as well as giving access to raids.
  • Ferengi Weapons Dealers - Black market weapons dealers that sell D'kora class cruisers and Ferengi Turret Control Systems.
  • Scrappers - A group of scavengers that collect derelict ships, will buy and sell ships. They also inhabit Ship Graveyards, with increased ships to acquire.
  • Slaver Outpost - Orion Pirates that engage in slave raids, gives access to powerful raids that fuel their economy, as well as selling labor for planets.
  • Talarian Irregulars - A Talarian Militia that hires out for offensive and defensive actions.

SR

These minor factions can be taken over in largely the same way as is done in Vanilla Sins. Simply move an envoy to the target planet. The Borg, of course, don't.

Outlaw Sectors

This release also fully incorporates Rampant Militia from Outlaw Sectors, now that it is faction specific. Included in the Rampant Militia spawn, is a flexible spawning system that uses Attack Raids, to give Minor Factions additional faction appropriate forces alongside.

Turret Control Systems

TCS

There are three methods for obtaining self sustained turret spawns. These function as a starbase support system, and allow for substantial advantages in the defensive power of Minor Faction planets.

The first, naturally, is Minor Faction themselves. When the player builds a starbase in orbit of one, the minor faction automatically supports the structure by way of regularly spawned turrets, up to a maximum of 6. These turrets are created by the starbase itself, deployed and positioned around it to create a solid power base regardless of where the AI placed structures end up after being destroyed.

The other two sources, are the Norway Class starship, who's existing Turret ability has been changed from a spammy, management intensive mechanism where you place individual turrets, to the same starbase support system, and a system that can be ordered from the Ferengi Weapons Dealers, one of the new Minor Factions. Should you be playing the Federation, and obtain said Minor Faction, you'll be capable of, at great expense, an extra 12 self maintaining turrets at all of your starbases, and 18 for those at your Minor Faction worlds. Provided you keep the starbase alive, they'll end up being highly effective purchases in points of heavy conflict.

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.8.3R FULL] Released

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.8.3R FULL] Released

News 4 comments

This version is for Rebellion 1.92. It fixes issues with the neutral starbases.

Borg Wars S3

Borg Wars S3

News 9 comments

Dragoclaw and the gang spend six hours in an epic struggle to redeem their past failures to defeat the Borg menace.

New Releases

New Releases

News 1 comment

Sacrifice of Angels 2 has released new version for Rebellion and Diplomacy/Trinity.

SOA2 Rebellion & Trinity Releases

SOA2 Rebellion & Trinity Releases

News

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire now has a new Rebellion page and Trinity Page.

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Star Trek: Sacrifie of Angels 2 [0.95R Full] Released

Star Trek: Sacrifie of Angels 2 [0.95R Full] Released

Full Version

Full version for Rebellion Version 1.98. This version features expanded neutral factions, and numerous fixes, including resolution of known crashes.

SOA2 0.9.1R Update

SOA2 0.9.1R Update

Patch 15 comments

This is a bug fix patch for the Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.9R release. Primary fixes: Map incompatibility issues with DLC planets used in maps created with...

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.9R FULL] Released

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.9R FULL] Released

Full Version 32 comments

Full version for Rebellion Version 1.94. This version features fully integrated feature sets for the last two DLC. Use Minor Factions to your advantage...

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.8.3R FULL] Released

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.8.3R FULL] Released

Full Version

Full version for Rebellion 1.92. Neutral starbases should actually be fixed now.

SOA2 0.8.3R Update

SOA2 0.8.3R Update

Patch

Hotfix for stupid mistake in the 0.8.2 Update. This is what happens when you're just not smart enough for your own work. It's a great tragedy.

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.8.2R FULL]

Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 [0.8.2R FULL]

Full Version

This is the full version of SOA2 for Rebellion 1.92. This version fixes problems with neutral starbases not triggering their buff chains properly.

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psychoak Creator
psychoak - - 454 comments

I'm in the final rounds of testing on a new release, should be uploading a completely crash free version of soa2 in the next couple days.

After vast quantities of bug hunting in this mod and others, I've managed to figure out multiple ways to crash the game, and came up with a hopefully fool proof work around to the solitary remaining issue after correcting every logic flaw in the mod, using CreateFrigate on a planet to switch ownership to the holder. After every possible mechanism to avoid firing on an unowned planet simply failed spectacularly as a result of things just flat continuing to run after their conditions aren't valid, I gave planets temporary bombing immunity for a few seconds at the problematic points...

So yeah, no crashes in quite a while.

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psychoak Creator
psychoak - - 454 comments

And it's posted.

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Harvb0tCentralGam1ng
Harvb0tCentralGam1ng - - 5 comments

Hello all! Long time no see. 11 years sure has gone quickly. Im glad to see psychoak is still updating the mod after all these years. It was a pleasure to be part of the SOA2 team, it brings back fantastic memories of me playing this game in 2013. Sadly, the Harvb0tCentralGam1ng youtube channel was shut down in ~2015 however it is nice to hear my old childlike voice again

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psychoak Creator
psychoak - - 454 comments

Heh, four years isn't exactly recently, but I do have an update in progress when I get around to finishing it...

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AlexDaLegend
AlexDaLegend - - 77 comments

Hey, I'm making a submod for another submod of STA3, and I am wanting to ask your permission to use some of the meshes from your mod, particularly the Miranda and maybe some Pirates.

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AdmiralSavol
AdmiralSavol - - 173 comments

will Yall be making the mod Caompatible with Sins of a Solar Empire II upon its release

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psychoak Creator
psychoak - - 454 comments

With the age of the engine in mind, I would be extremely surprised if mod compatibility were a simple matter.

If the unimaginable were to take place and some relatively minor work were needed to port the mod, I'd have that knocked out shortly after release.

I wouldn't expect anything to be compatible though, a total rebuild with 20 year old graphics assets is likely what would be entailed. Not happening unless someone else makes it happen. Somewhere inbetween? I wouldn't bet on me being that industrious, X1 requires a certain lack of sanity to even look at, let alone alter for an engine code rewrite, but if someone else were crazy enough to do it, they'd have my blessing.

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Uberkillz
Uberkillz - - 13 comments

Star Trek Armada III's recent final release has brought me back to this game, and looking back I remember this amazing mod too, which is now version 0.9.1R. It's been a while since the last update, any plans for the full version 1.0 anytime soon?

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psychoak Creator
psychoak - - 454 comments

That would be... misleading.

This is almost certainly the final version of SOA2. Someone else would have to come in and take up the project, the original plans of people involved in the graphical side of things have all but entirely failed to happen. Real life and whatnot.

For a 1.0 to come into being, those plans to create new assets and other artwork would need to come about. Code wise, this is more of a 3.1, as I completed all planned entity work and feature development when I fully implemented X1 several years ago. The successive feature additions were spurred by DLC, or random ideas while working to implement patch changes.

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Guest
Guest - - 698,189 comments

Is there a full Universe map available, or one where as federation I start on earth?

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LordBalzack
LordBalzack - - 2 comments

If you go to the Fortune Favors the Bold map under the large maps you can play a pretty decent full universe. Starting locations are tricky though. Player 1 always starts at Bajor. But if you figure out the starting planets for the other players you can set up your game so that immediately after beginning, you throw down a save, then reload it as a different player. So you can effectively start wherever you want.

Little bit tedious, but it was worth it for me. I've had a lot of fun on that map.

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psychoak Creator
psychoak - - 454 comments

This isn't really that kind of game. Such efforts were abandoned by people upon the discovery that you can't do fixed starting points and preload a map setup with the factions in the right spots.

There are a couple old maps people did with planets placed according to various Trek maps, not even sure they still work either, but you'll only get the full mod experience from randoms, which include all the added special functions like X Class planets.

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