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New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:11 am
by Falchion
I have been busy for a while, but I´ve decided to lauch a new campaign.  See if you like it.

Starcraft: State of War

This campaign passes shortly after the end of Episode V: The Iron Fist

STORY:

With the United Earth Directorate´s takeover of the Zerg, several other factions have been caught
in panic due to the fear of becoming victims of UED and Zerg invasions.  In Moria, martial law
has been instituted in several mining bases, interior cities and the capital, Andrus.  No more
off-world travelling was allowed, except for authorized military operations, and any violation is
punishable with death.

The Kel-Morian government mounts a military defense operation, codenamed "Insecticide", whose
objective is to collect intelligence from the new Terran enemy.  Under the leadership of Colonel
Jackson O'Riley, preparations an assault at a UED top secret science facility in Mar Sara are underway...

MEANWHILE, AT SHAKURAS...

A recent renegade Protoss assault at Talematros forces the loyal Protoss forces to enter on the
defensive.  Observers and witnesses confirm no Dark Templar nor Corsairs nor Dark Archons are
found, rising suspects of a fanatical group of Khalai High Templar dissidents.

MEANWHILE, AT MAR SARA:

As the UED fleet faces the Zerg at other planets, the science facility garrison faces other
problems:  constant Zerg raids coming from Hives scattered across the planet.  The local
Cerebrate, Skaar, has also his problems:  Kerrigan´s forces are fighting his remaining hives to
force him to join her Swarm.

As the Kel-Morians prepare to invade Mar Sara, the Swarms fight each other for control of the
planet, and a Protoss civil insurgence is about to enter unexpectedly in this war, few does the
UED troops know of the slaughter they will have to face...


TERRAN CHARACTERS:


Jackson O'Riley (Marine):

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Rank: Colonel
Affiliation: Kel-Morian Combine
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Personality: Disciplined, sometimes a little renegade, but he completes a mission when he´s
ordered to.

As commanding officer of 1/3 of the Kel-Morian forces, O'Riley is one of the few officers that
can be trusted by the recent-elected President Wyncham and General Wolf.  Known for his
effective, yet less-Orthodoxical actions, he has only got a hatred by the Kel-Morian Senator,
William Maxwell and his friend, Colonel Daniels.

Ed Daniels (Marine):

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Rank: Colonel
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Kel-Morian Combine
Age: 30
Personality: Disciplined, loyalist

Another commanding officer of the Kel-Morian forces, Daniels is the puppet in the hands of
Senator Maxwell.  He is sometimes requested by High Command, although they choose mostly Colonel
O'Riley.

Dan Wolf (Siege Tank):

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Rank: General
Affiliation: Kel-Morian Combine
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Personality: Wise guy, smart, friendly

He´s the commander of all Kel-Morian forces and right hand of President Wyncham.  When he´s got
some crappy work to do, he usually calls O'Riley, his best man, for the job.  He has a serious
score with Senator Maxwell, because his politics interfere with the General´s capability to
complete a mission appropriately.

Catherine Wyncham (Ghost):

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Rank: President of Moria
Affiliation: Kel-Morian Combine
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Personality: Serious, ingenious and likes to think.

This girl is the most younger person ever to be a Kel-Morian President.  Due to the state of
emergency declared by Kel-Morian High Command, and the recent death of her father, Thomas, she´s
been chosen to take lead.  She´s still in training, although some of her foolish actions have
granted her the support of all Kel-Morians.

William Maxwell (Civillian):

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Rank: Senator
Affiliation: Kel-Morian Combine
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Personality: Arrogant, would-be President

As many attributes are given to this name, William Maxwell is among some persons in the
Kel-Morian Senate´s blacklist.  Like Arcturus Mengsk, he has some hunger for power, and he´ll do
whatever it takes to make sure his objectives are accomplished.  He also has some enemies, like
General Wolf and O'Riley.  In fact, the only support he has is Colonel Daniels and his troops.

Annette Dussault (Ghost):

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Rank: Captain
Affiliation: United Earth Directorate
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Personality: Not so smart or disciplined, but somehow similar to O'Riley.

As Captain of the UED local garrison in Mar Sara, Dussault prefers more to be in the
expeditionary fleet fighting the Zerg than to be on "guard duty" as she says.  Her prolonged
conflicts with the local Cerebrate, Skaar, has made her predict every movement the Cerebrate
does.


ZERG CHARACTERS (Cerebrates only):


Skaar:

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Affiliation: Renegade Zerg Swarm

As one of the Cerebrates under Daggoth´s command, he is one of the only few old Cerebrates that
still exists, since all the others have fell under the hands of Kerrigan, the Dark Templar and
even the UED.  With the death, rebirth, and the UED´s control of the Overmind, nothing more
interests Skaar than power.  Since the appearance of the Directorate, Skaar has attempted to find
means to retake the Cerebrates´ power in the Swarm and to exact revenge on the Protoss in Aiur.

Baal'Tur:

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Affiliation: Kerrigan´s Zerg Swarm

The opposite of Skaar.  This Cerebrate has been created by Kerrigan before the arrival of the UED
to defend her flanks.  With the news that a Cerebrate loyal to Daggoth has been discovered in Mar
Sara, the Queen of Blades has ordered Baal'Tur to "convince" Skaar to join her broods.


PROTOSS CHARACTERS:

Cytal (Zealot):

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Rank: Preator
Affiliation: Protoss, Venatir Tribe
Gender: Female
Age: 310
Personality: Calm, senses enemy ambushes.

Cytal is known among her tribe as the "sister of Fenix", for she´s a skillful leader.  A great
warrior that has served under command of Tassadar in Aiur, like him, she has never cared about
the Khala or the Dark Templar.  She has been recently occupied, due to a increasing insurgence
that is rising among the ranks of the High Templar.

Thurion (Dragoon):

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Rank: Prelate
Affiliation: Protoss, Akilae Tribe
Gender: Male
Age: 532
Personality: Battle thristy, renegade.

All say that some persons have others similar to them.  O'Riley has one.  And it´s a Protoss. 
Thurion has never been loyal to the Conclave, and sometimes, to accomplish his missions, he even
disobeys orders from the Conclave, gaining the hatred of several Judicators, especially Judicator
Talas.

Talas (Templar):

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Rank: Judicator
Affiliation: Protoss, Ara Tribe
Gender: Male
Age: 700
Personality: Arrogant, ambitious, dislikes Thurion.

As O'Riley has Khais as his Protoss counterpart, Talas is Maxwell´s counterpart.  Besides his
loyal followers, the Ara Tribe, Talas has no other support or friend he can trust.  His means to
force Thurion to follow Talas´ orders by the letter makes the Prelate furious, who in turn disobeys
them.

Teridia (Templar):

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Rank: Judicator
Affiliation: Protoss, Venatir Tribe
Gender: Female
Age: 610
Personality: Wise, calm.

Teridia is Cytal´s teacher and superior officer.  It´s to this Judicator that Cytal owns her
abilities to take unafraid decisions in critical hours.  Beside Teridia´s disliking with Talas,
she will work with him if necessary.

SCREENSHOTS:


The Zerg settles a *small* pow-wow with the UED
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The city of Andrus, capital of Moria.  Martial Law isn´t always a good thing, I suppose.
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As our story tells, new places will be visited, but we won’t forget about the old ones.  Talematros (Before Kerrigan’s arrival) will be an exemple of it.
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Welcome to Orion Island, nerve center of all Kel-Morian Military.
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Along with it, I have some sound samples I´ve been making.  See if you like it.

That´s it for now.  Bye.

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:11 am
by Falchion
Finally, after finding a way to upload my files, I´ve managed to upload the Beta Executable for the State of War campaign, along with the intro and the first three missions of the campaign.  The missions are fully complete (Terrain is all good, added some nice music and some borrowed sound effects, and speeches times are chronometred), and it´s the first campaign I manage to launch in the Internet.

The campaign has been uploaded in the Filefront Server, through my second nickname.  Here´s the link:

http://files.filefront.com/State_of_War___Part_01rar/;6766055;;/fileinfo.html

Obviously, you won´t like it, of course.  But it´s only the beginning, so I´ll see to it that the story gets better.

Bye.

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:11 pm
by Falchion
I have discovered major bugs in the maps.

Therefore, until fixing is done, the maps will be temporarily unavailable.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:16 am
by Falchion
The Campaign link has been fixed.

As I told, you won´t like it, but feel free to download it if you want.

Bye.

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:32 am
by Falchion
If there are those who couldn´t download it in the Filefront server, I have good news, then.

I´ve managed to upload the damn first part in the ModDB site.  Here´s the link:

http://files.moddb.com/6277/download-state-of-war-normal-version-par/

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:22 pm
by Shadow Stalker
ok so i noticed that in some of your unit portraits the colors are different............how did you do that?

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:17 pm
by Whiplash!
Shadow Stalker wrote: ok so i noticed that in some of your unit portraits the colors are different............how did you do that?
He made a custom MPQ and imported modified .smk files (the file type for portraits) into it.

The custom .exe isnt in the filefront version...?

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:16 pm
by Shadow Stalker
i dunno i didnt download his files how do you modify .smk files?

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:17 pm
by Lavarinth
SMK is a video, you export them into individual frames using Smacker tools and edit each frame separately.

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:28 am
by Shadow Stalker
ok i kinda understand what your saying but like can you give me an example

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:29 pm
by Lavarinth
Install Game > Open MPQ View / WinMPQ > Extract SMK file > Install [old] Smacker > Convert SMK to JPG > Install Photoshop/Paint/Paint Shop Pro > Open any and open set of JPGs > Edit individually > Save > Convert JPG sequence to SMK > Inject to MPQ

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:38 am
by Shadow Stalker
oh ok gotchya

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:02 pm
by Fatburger666
How far along is your campaign?

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:47 pm
by Durandal-Thoth
Actually, reading through most of your posts and lookin' at screenshots and captions, I like what you've done so far.

Re: New Campaign: State of War

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:30 am
by Fatburger666
I'm with Durandal-Thoth I think the campaign looks very good so far.