Captain: "Sir, we've reduced the enemy colony to ashes."

Red Dwarf: "So why did you stop Captain? I ordered it to be blasted into dust..."

Yup. The Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance factions will basically try the represent the feel of the original trilogy, while the Imperial Warlords and the New Republic will obviously borrow a lot more from the Expanded Universe. Hopefully there should be enough for everyone to be happy (well except the Clone Wars people, but I can't really come up with a plot that includes them. This one is crazy enough as it is ).

I can't wait either. this sounds extremely brilliant

Kaine and the PA used some Clone Wars era ships and units, could give them some. Note: Not being entirely serious here.

I was reading this "Night Hammer class Star Dreadnaught" and it was the original name from the starship but it was renamed to KnigthHammer. At least if it is the same SSD from Darksaber book. 

I might do that, Kaine is one of the main warlords the player can choose to ally with in the Imperial Warlords faction. And at the least some of the most icon ships like the Venator will show up in other places, and will be obtainable by anyone via certain map events.

It is, but like many things and characters in Interregnum the Night Hammer has a rather different history, and thus it doesn't get renamed this time around (and personally I thought Knighthammer was a terrible pun  ).

Ideally, Night Hammer will be the titan of the Imperial Warlords faction if the player joins with Grand Admiral Thrawn (one of the bigger artistic liberties I took, but he already had stealth technology from Wayland and would value its tactical advantage much more than the other Warlords, who regardless already have their own Executor class ships). However, at first it will probably be the titan for the entire Warlords faction regardless of who you join, as I'd rather focus on getting the Rebels and New Republic done before adding the Lusankya, Reaper and Iron Fist for their respective warlords.

How is this mod coming along?

Good, though real life and the new DLC has pushed back the beta release date. Progress updates should resume in a week or so.

Any recent pics to maybe spark enough interest to get you modder of the year ;p

Well, there's been quite a few of them on Moddb now.   Though too late for Mod of the year of course.

Victory-I Star Destroyer

Sentinel Landing Craft

Capitalship Factory

Victory-II Star Destroyer

Sweet!!!!!

Looks great so far!

Any ETA on the beta? Looking forward to playing this, and the other SW mods in development

Hard to say for sure. I wanted to have the Empire Beta done by New Years but the Stellar Phenomenon DLC of course prevented that from happening. Progress has been good lately though, if this can keep up (and it probably won't) I should have an ETA by the end of January.

In the meantime, I've been posting plenty of new screenshots to Moddb, including...

Skipray Blastboat

Lancer Frigates

Another Victory-I

Strike Cruiser

GoaFan77 you continue to amaze and inspire; your mod work is pretty good too.  

Wishing you a healthy and happy future.  

backs out of the room slowly...  

PS:

Princess Leia: No! Alderaan is peaceful! We have no weapons, you can't possibly...

Governor Tarkin: [impatiently] You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system! I grow tired of asking this so it will be the last time: *Where* is the rebel base?

Princess Leia: ...Dantooine. They're on Dantooine.

Governor Tarkin: There. You see, Lord Vader, she can be reasonable. Continue with the operation; you may fire when ready.

Princess Leia: WHAT?

Governor Tarkin: You're far too trusting. Dantooine is too remote to make an effective demonstration - but don't worry; we will deal with your rebel friends soon enough.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/quotes

You mean something about me besides my mod work inspires you?  I wonder what that is.

In the meantime, have some screenshots. This time of the Gladiator Star Destroyer, which looks much prettier (well, for a grey Imperial Warship) after a texture touchup.

Here's the first part of the timeline of Interregnum, that outline the events that occurred prior to the player taking control in the mod.

The Story of Interregnum starts in the universe of Sins of a Solar Empire, where a last ditch attempt to escape the unknown pursuers of the Vasari leads to the Sins races stumbling into the Star Wars galaxy.

2 years after the events of Rebellion (Enhanced 4X Mod era)

The years of conflict have made the political divisions between Loyalists and Rebels permanent,  as the Rebel factions have broken off to form their own sovereign states. The TEC Rebels have formed a new nation called the Human Trader State (HTS), while the Loyalist continue to operate under the Trader Emergency Coalition (TEC). Believers still loyal to the original teachings of the Unity call themselves the Orthodox Advent, while the Rebel reformists have formed a new unity and refer to themselves as the Ascended Advent. The pro-peace Vasari outcasts have organized themselves into a new Vasari Independent Republic, while the loyalists continue to obey the orders of the authoritarian Vasari Central Command.

3 years after Rebellion

The Arcova Scout Frigate Pathfinder-38 finds a new wormhole on the fringes of TEC space. On traveling through it, its navigation equipment is unable to find any recognizable astronomical objects. After making star charts for the area, including a nearby Galaxy only a few light years away, it passes back through the wormhole and sends its data back to the TEC capital, where it is archived.

5 years after Rebellion

After a long period of ceasefire, diplomats from the Vasari Independent Republic successfully negotiate the Triple Alliance between the TEC, Ascended Advent and the VIR. However, celebration is brief due to the growing threat of the Vasari's unknown assailants, which are expected to arrive in Trader space in another 5 years. The Alliance and other factions begin evacuation preparations.

6 years after Rebellion

A Vasari Republic astronomer, Dr. Sularatak, begins reviewing the unknown star charts in the TEC archive, to see if the Vasari have encountered any of the stars during their long migration. Only Pathfinder-38's discovery was not in the Vasari records. That same year, Sularatak writes an academic paper suggesting the Triple Alliance could use the wormhole as a springboard for its evacuation, as it would be much easier than traveling through interstellar space to the next galaxy. He receives a grant for further study of the wormhole, now dubbed P-38c.

7 years after Rebellion

Dr. Sularatak's study produces an unexpected finding. Not only does the wormhole lead to an entirely unknown section of space, but the wormhole itself is unstable. He calculates that it will collapse on itself sometime in the next few years, before the unknown pursuers can arrive at it. The importance of his findings are immediately realized in the VIR, and after much debate they persuade the TEC and Ascended Advent that wormhole P-38c provides the best chance of escaping the unknown assailants for good.

Despite the most secret security precautions, word about this plan eventually gets out to the other factions, and after an intense campaign to seize control of P-38c, a truce is eventually negotiated by all parties. The Triple Alliance will be the first to go through P-38c, after that the HTS, Orthodox Advent and VCC evacuation fleets will be allowed to go through unopposed. Once they've arrived in the new galaxy, fighting can resume without the specter of sudden mutual annihilation.

9 years after Rebellion

The truce allows all factions to complete their evacuation armadas on time. At the beginning of the year the Triple Alliance sends millions of ships and trillions of refugees through P-38c. A few months later the HTS, Orthodox Advent and finally the Vasari Central Command also send their forces through the wormhole, each headed for a different sector of the nearby galaxy. Only a few pirates, the populations of the most remote worlds, and  some stubborn Traders who believe the whole thing to be a Vasari hoax stayed in Trader space.

A Vorastra titan commanded by a member of the Vasari Central Command was the last ship to pass through P-38c. His ancestor had order the great evacuation millennia ago. The thought that they had finally escaped the unknown terror he had fled from all those years ago was an unreal feeling for him. "Whatever we find in this mess of a galaxy we're travelling to" he thought, "it cannot compare to the great evil we have finally escaped from." 

10 years after Rebellion

From the bridge of the Jikara Navigator, Dr. Sularatak watched as the other side of P-38c collapsed, shrank and finally faded out of existence, just a few weeks off from his estimated date. As a scientist, Sularatak was somewhat disappointed that they would now never be able to learn a single thing about the threat that had chased his people for so long. But there was a new war to be worried about, and a new galaxy that the astronomer needed to study. "We're done here, Captain", Sularatak mumbled as he began to leave the bridge, immersed in thought. He barely heard the Captain tell his crew "Very well. Set a course for the planet the locals call... Eriadu. The fleet is gathering there, in a battle apparently just as bad as the old days." No one on the Navigator could have imagined that it would actually be worse.

To be continued...

what's the ship in the last pic?

The Immobolizer-418 Cruiser, usually just called an Interdictor Cruiser.

The Imperial Star Destroyer's entry has been added to the manual. You can find it on Moddb or the second post of this thread! 

Excited! Are you leaving gravity wells the same size as they currently are or will you be increasing them to manage the larger ships of the empire?

The gravity wells will stay the same size. Only the Super Star Destroyers are really a problem with the scaling. I've decided to cap their size to no more than say 2.5 times the length of a Ragnarov. If it turns out that that is too small compared to other Star Wars ships, I'll just say Interregnum uses the old length of 12.8km for a Super Star Destroyer instead of 19km.

Or say the Super-class is not so fictional and got forced into reality as a budget SSD to combat the invaders.

Progress


While the mod is not currently ready for release, it is most certainly being worked on. The first public beta is planned to be out by the end of the year if not sooner, with a mostly feature complete Empire race at least available. More details will be announced in this thread.

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Good sir I believe this was a post from last year, so any eta on a first release of the beta?

Also, I'm looking forward to this mod whenever it is released.

I guess if needed to reduce it even further to 8km that would be an option. Though since the Executor and Lusankya are explicitly mentioned in the lore and the game, I would have to unretcon the retcon that made the Executor class its own class and put them back as Super Class Star Destroyers.

Well not the beta, but it looks like I may have an invite only alpha once most of the gameplay elements for the Empire are in. Which should be soon™.

Current Status of the Empire

Ships and Structures - 85%

• HUD Icons - 100%
• Stats and functionality - 85%
• Voice overs - 20%
• Pictures and miscellaneous Icons - 0%

HUD - 95%

Abilities - 90%

Research - 25%

Basically once the ships and structures and research tree is near complete I'll start the initial alpha for balance and general feedback.