As the description states....

What's Inside:

"The Shadows Have Eyes..." includes 22 craft, 2 outposts, and an entirely new block palette tailored to the flavor of the Xel'At Qarr...."

May i ask WHAT IS THE CATAGORY OF THIS MOD... Is it a faction, or is it a Fleet ,OR a block edit?

And finally...I nearly removed the Mantrik ships and blocks from the mod entirely when I realized I didn't have room in the description to really go into what they are at all.....

The Mantrik Priests of the Xel'at Imperium practice mantras, repetitive chanting of power words and syllable structures, to create a kind of pseudo-arcane waveforce that when enhanced by their Echoic Amplifier technology allows the Mantriks to manipulate the very fabric of space-time itself (hence teleportation). They are both feared and respected and are a social class wholly outside the structure of the rest of the Xel'at Imperium. Also....my apologies for what I imagine must be a very wordy and most likely confusing "explanation" >.<

For those of you that would remind me that there isn't a medium for sound to travel through space I would have you note that 1) The void isn't space, it's the void...slight difference here and 2) Xel'at Mantras echo transdimensionally ;)

@KrysisMode, as for the Diamond Blades...the Mantriks of the noble Qaar clan wield them almost to the exclusion of any other weapon system aboard their ships. This is because with the power they generate through their amplifiers or use of the power stored in the Echoic Vaults, they can easily control dozens of blades at once and, in fact, the "Mantrik Overseer Platform" is a personal forcefielded platform that a Mantrik overseer would stand in the center of in open space, protected only by the echoes of his Mantrik chants that he wove to form the field for his protection.

@KrysisMode Sorry for the incredibly late reply!

To answer your question: Yes, they should be able to slice clean through asteroids. Also, If you're doing awesome ninja dives that slice enemy ships in half, then hopping back using the Echoic Amplifier, then re-slicing the same ship for the kill...That's pretty awesome :)

The following is the original flavor text for the diamonds blade launcher that unfortunately wouldn't fit snuggly in the usual space allotted to block descriptions and so was left out, like so many others: "The planet T'Aarkas is well known for the endless diamond mines that riddle its sun-blasted surface where the millions of slaves that inhabit the planet live out their short and meaningless lives to keep the Qaar-Mantriks supplied with these blades."

Also this, the description for the diamond blade object itself: These so-called 'Diamond Blades' are the product of an intense hybridization process that interweaves a diamond-crystalline structure from a base diamond with an alien amorphous-gelatin structure whose origin is a secret known only to the Xelat. This results in an incredibly light, razor-sharp blade that is crystalline in appearance and capable of slicing cleanly through an unprocessed, ordinary diamond with ease."

@Icikus Hey, thanks for the interest! I've been continuing to work on the series, albeit at a snails pace, though unfortunately that hasn't included any new lore releases recently. You may have missed a small section if you didn't play the 1st version of HHTV Ep 1 or if you did play it but didn't check the update notes :) Link is here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/492151939
The lore passage is in the middle of the wall of text that is the Aug. 30th update.

Very interesting stuff, is there somewhere I an find the lore for this world and its factions?

just want to saying somthing they reproduce like rabbits i hired one factory next minute theres a fleet spawned ...

Nice faction, pretty balanced and has an obvious focus on raw unmigated attack power over anything else.

Your Diamond Blades miiiiiiiight need a tweak though. Are they supposed to let you make a ship that can literally cut asteriods in half? I literally slam into it blade first and it just cuts cleanly through the entire length of the roid. Same goes for any poor ship I manage to catch and combined with a teleport I can do one pass slice it in half and teleport back in to cut it into thirds.

Seriously those ain't diamond blades they're made out of freaking plotonium!

@herp derp Nice! I hope you dig this one too!

The focus for this episode is actually quite different from #1 and I feel the palette/faction does a fair job of bringing a variety of interesting design possibilities while not offering a terribly obvious or easy way to dominate everything.

Anyhow, would love to hear how you guys feel about playing through as the Xel'At; y'know, standard things such as likes, dislikes, all of that lovely feedback stuff :D

loved HTTV1... lets test this one out :D

It sounds like one of the mods that you've downloaded contains a broken regions.lua file that's conflicting with the regions.lua from this mod. I'm not sure if it would be easy for you to do or not, but you could narrow down the broken culprit by unselecting one mod at a time and then re-starting until you figure out which one is causing your issue.

As far as I know, no one has had any issue with this mod and I'm fairly confident the regions.lua is perfectly good to go. Sorry I couldn't be more help...

Cool ships and modules, but i start the game in the middle of nowhere andh ave lots of trouble gettign bases to work, is this just on my end?

@Ghostpanther Something good I hope? :D

Ha11uc1n0g3n you did it again

@ bot 1 Thanks! And you're totally right about tournament mode; The AI doesn't have a single clue about how to use the Teleport as an offensive advantage and seems to only use it to dodge an aggressors opening volley.

Also, I encourage you (and everyone else who plays Reassembly) to get on the forums @ www.anisopteragames.com/forum and join in the discussion. The more players we have requesting AI changes/updates the better the chance that Arthur (the developer) might look into doing so and from what I can see, he seems to pay more attention to the forums on the games official website than he does the Steam Reassembly Forums.

Thanks again for your comment and thanks for playing! :D

there really awsome but in the tournment mode they teleport out of bounds all the time

Also, "certain sects of people" or something along that line is indeed something I should have included in my innocent little remark of what the story reminded me of, so thanks for adding it.

I mean, actual in game book short stories available on the unofficial wikia. Really quite enjoyable reads, and the book describing the nature of the Orcs and the fall of Malacath, or the morally grey nature of the Kahjit, those two are great. Also the pickpocket prince or whatever it was.

Playing the villain/antihero, well there's Dungeons, Overlord, Prototype. The first two just have so much comedy and sarcasm and poking fun at or deriding both extremes of heroism or villainy, either of which is bad if taken too far. Prototype just has such a great story, and it's fun destroying everything and everyone OR going the opposite route (when possible) and using stealth infiltration to advance without tripping an alarm or causing a scuffle.

Others might like GTA or some of those TV shows about badguys, but yeah, no, and SERIOUSLY GTA DESTROYS YOUR SOUL!

As for stories along the line of what you are talking about, there are some good short stories in Skyrim, Elder Scrolls lore, etc.

@ Void Stitch (cont'd) You're right, the "no peaceful coexistence" thing is exactly what made me do a "bad guy" faction rather than a "good guy" faction.

The other reason was because I know some people just LOVE playing bad guys (looking @ Vici) and I wanted to give them one that wasn't the yet-to-be-seen "Dark Ones." I'm not personally one of those that likes playing the villain and I think that's one of the reasons it took so long to be "happy" with them.

Anyhow, thanks for your comment and thanks for playing! :D

@ Void Stitch, thanks! I put a crazy amount of time into designing this faction and writing the relatively brief excerpt to go with it.

I find it a bit regrettable that it reminds anyone of the Middle East and the hate mongering of those certain sects of people and individuals but I can't help but see your point in saying so.

I really hoped to tell the story of a people who were once a shining example of heroism; justice, glory, self-sacrifice and all of that, who suffered a long series of unfortunate events that eventually led them to be the opposite; Injust, petty, vain, backstabbing, and self-serving.

In fact, as I mentioned there's actually quite a bit more to this short story and I intend to post it in it's entirety at some point. Oh....and if you thought this excerpt from the story was dark...heh...

@Lapsapnow

Thanks Lap! I really appreciate the kind words and I hope you have a good time with the mod!

On the notion of a crossover, the rather plain sounding names in the Heirs to the Void setting like"The Dark Ones" or "the Inner Worlds" were left broadly generic because I really hope to give the players a Setting and Universe where they can feel free to imagine whatever they like without feeling bound by restrictions imposed by the setting itself.

I just think it would be the coolest thing if we all had a Universe to share and tell stories in, and inspire each other :D

I know it's just a game with no options for peaceful coexistence but still, this story paints a rather negative image of the faction which you play as. Reminds me of the sort of eye for an eye hate mongering seen in the Middle East, with all the terrorist crazies etc. Just saying. As for the ships, Cybran fleet much? LOL Very nice job with the writting anyway.

Haha, that story chat was pretty darn awesome.
The Laporiens are very impressed. That's some good military chatta-ma-wattle. :D

You know... now I want to finnish the Starglow Galactic Purificurate simply to write a nice long story. Haha!

Maybe a Universe Crossover at one point? Haha. ;)
Also, man... those are some attractive ships.

Taken not stirred! ( AKA, subscribed! )

I have a "little" surprise for them

good.

@Vici LOL! I'll let them know you said you were looking for them and send 'em right over

Dark Ones PLZ