Star Panzer

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Star Panzer

• Proposed by
• Eric Nelson

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Story Introduction

• The year is 2492. The peoples of earth have
  taken to the stars and explored the near reaches
  of the galaxy. With its strength united, the
  earth has established many colonies. Two days
  ago, unknown ships were sighted near the newly
  formed colony of New Brazil, on Oberion II.

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Story Introduction

• The United Earth Space Navy has an orbital base
  at Persius, the third moon of Oberion IV. You
  are an Admiral stationed here. Command has
  selected you to investigate the occurrence. You
  are to select your force and make best speed to
  the planet within the hour.

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Mission 1

• The player shows up at the colony with their
  fleet. A small enemy force is bombarding the
  planet. They immediately break off and attack
  the player. When the battle is concluded, the
  survivors abandon the colony and return with the
  player to the Persius orbital base.

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Mission 2

• The player is briefed that they will be scouting
  some of the nearby systems in force. As their
  squadron is launching, a medium sized enemy heavy
  strike force jumps in. The player engages the
  enemy, only controlling their fleet. A friendly
  force that just left on a mission returns a few
  minutes into the fight to aid the Earth forces.
  The player must defend the base while it launches
  the warships that are still docked.

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Mission 3

• Reinforcements from Earth arrive. The player
  gets orders to go with them to attack an enemy
  installation. The combined fleet gets pulled out
  of hyperspace en route to the target and is
  ambushed. After this battle, the players force
  continues to the supply depot. After a small
  skirmish with enemy defenders, the player strips
  and destroys the supply depot.

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Resolution ( The End )

• With this task completed, the sector is secure
  from further attacks. The player is recalled to
  Central Command on the Lunar Base to give a
  briefing on the enemy.

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Appearance A

• The ship graphics will be sleek and streamlined,
  as opposed to the clunky view of spaceship design
  with function taking priority over looks.
• Ships will have full freedom to move in any
  direction on the x, y, z axes.

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Appearance B

• A heads up display will show the hull damage for
  each compartment of the players ship. This
  display will also show the status of each weapon
  on the ship.
• Another display will show which attack method is
  set for orders given to the other ships.

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Appearance C

• In between missions, the player can navigate
  displays to upgrade their ship and add additional
  ships to their fleet. The quality and amount of
  these will increase with the completion of each
  mission.

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Player Roles

• The primary roll of the player is to exert total
  command over their ship, and give orders to the
  rest of the ships in their fleet.
• A ship given orders will carry them out based on
  AI coding.

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Orders

• The player may order one or more ships to attack,
  defend, move to, or form up on another ship.
• Ships told to attack will do so in one of three
  methods, based on the option selected in the
  Attack Method Display.
• The options are standoff, charge, or flank the
  enemy.

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Flagship Destruction

• Should the players personal flagship be
  destroyed, a command class escape pod will be
  launched.
• The player may then select to dock with the
  nearest ship, or the strongest ship left in the
  fleet.
• Traveling will take a small amount of time, but
  going a shorter distance will be significantly
  quicker.

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Influence Points

• The player may spend influence points earned
  during each mission on personal ship upgrades and
  on adding additional ships to their fleet.
• Possible ship upgrades will include thicker armor
  plating, engine upgrades, and adding a selection
  of additional weapons.

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Strategy

• A series of levels with increasing difficulty
  will take the player through the storyline. The
  story will be linear, but the player can choose
  which ships are added to their fleet at the start
  of each level.

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Ship Selection

• Ship selection is the primary strategy component,
  as the player may choose to deploy a weak but
  agile fleet, or a smaller fleet of juggernauts
  that will have to cope with being outmaneuvered.

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Specifications

• Hardware Standard Computer Workstations
• Software C compiler, graphics program, writing
  application
• Algorithms Focused on implementing artificial
  intelligence aspects.

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