Empires Of Planets 4

The Oni

Race Attributes

• Cannot produce supplies or minerals for themselves
• Without farms, food production is only possible at a price (see Soylent Processor)
• Extremely stealthy ships & bases
• Parasitic abilities and devices allow them to take what they need from other races
• Amorphous natives can sense the presence of Oni ships/bases (even cloaked) & will send a distress giving away the Oni position
• Hidden excavations are built automatically on any new Oni base where a HG & the necessary resources are present (but if excavations are destroyed, they will not be rebuilt automatically during the same turn)
• Good Happiness
• Average Growth Rate
• Weak in direct combat
• Access to more subtle attack methods
• Strong spying powers
• Low tax Income

Unique Units

• Sinister Agents: The chances of enemy HG blocking an Oni spy mission are offset by sinister agents – the “Nothing is 100%” rule still applies, meaning only the chance of success is increased – this effect should also extend to all ships & bases within 50LY. Cost 40MC.
• Perfect Organism: A genetically enhanced by-product of Eugenics technology. Perfect Organisms breed by impregnating a living host, which is destroyed when they are born. Their numbers will increase by 10% each turn, as long as enough donor organisms are available, on the same planet - NB. Robot & Crystal personnel are immune to this form of attack but Oni personnel are NOT. Also this action generates an automatic distress message “We are under attack by an Alien organism…” unless Sinister Agents are present, in which case, the chance of the message getting through will depend on the ratio of enemy HG to Sinister Agents. Cost 120MC.
• Hunter-Killers: This is a weapon of mass destruction. Each HK is powered by a massive reactor, whose power output, cannot be concealed by Hidden Excavations. If a HK is destroyed the fallout from the reactor will reduce the soil level on the planet by 1. Cost 200MC.

Missing Base Buildings

• Farms
• Factories
• Mineral mines
• Smelters
• AA guns
• Laser Cannon

Special Base Buildings

• Eugenics Lab: Genetically alters prisoners to become Oni citizens. 50% of prisoners held are successfully converted each turn. 20% are unsuitable and die during the procedure. The surviving 30% can hope to be rescued. 1 per planet. Cost 500mc 200 s.
• Soylent Processor: Converts 1000 Oni colonists into 10 food units. Costs 5mc per turn to run. Also each processor reduces crime by 10 each turn. Up to 10000 per planet. Cost 100mc 100s.
• Hidden Excavations: Reduces the sensor image of the base to zero & is automatically active. Also projects a low level cloaking-field to conceal Oni ships, fighters and pods in orbit (normal sensor rules apply ie. –50 to sensor profile – objects with a modified sensor profile less than zero will be invisible). Fails if Base Shield, AA guns, Ion Cannons, Hunter-Killers or Laser Cannon are active on the Oni base. A Tachyon emitter or detonated laser-minefield has a 20% chance of revealing all the concealed objects by disrupting the effect.1 per planet. Cost 200ms 100s.

Ship Attributes

• Oni ships can move through any type of mine-fields safely, as long as their speed is less than 40
• Oni hyperdrives & transfer orders do not increase sensor noise
• Some Oni ships can disguise their appearance to make them appear as another ship.
• Trailblazers and Remoras are equipped to help infiltrate an enemies territory
• Fleas and Leeches are equipped to take resources and personnel from enemy ships & bases
• Zephyr’s can gather fuel using their Ram scoop
• Flukes can help to support the economy
• Harvesters can turn natives into contraband
• Predators can attack targets at a distance
• Bloodhounds can transport an Oni base from the ships location to an enemy stronghold

Ship Special Devices

• Cargo Grappler: Steals molybdenum, tritanium, duranium, food, med units, and supplies (in that order) from all ships within 50 LY that you are at war with. It will steal as much as possible, until the enemy ships are empty or there is no more cargo room left to hold the stolen goods. This device works after movement.
• Cloaking Device: Burns fuel and reduces the ship's sensor image by 50 points. Ships that have a sensor image of 0 can not be seen. The ship overview screen will show you your ship's current sensor image. Be aware that moving at high speeds, using your transporters, traveling through web minefields, or enemy tachyon scanners can uncloak your ship. You can never be completely sure that you have not been seen. If you have the attack order for the ship turned on your ship will attack from cloak, you need to turn off the attack switch to avoid combat while cloaked. The cloaking device on ships with a sensor profile of more than 50, do not fully cloak the ship - the cloaking device will only make the ship harder to see.
• Clone Lab: Increase guests by 20% a turn, by making copies of them. Costs nothing to use. Increases High Guard by 10% a turn with a limit of 10 High Guard per ship.
• Crew Abducter: Takes enemy crew from enemy bases to fill out our crew. The device will take all the crew that will fit in the ship. The device only takes crew, it does not harm or take enemy colonists. The device has a range of 2 LY.
• Fuel Robber: Steals up to 50kt of fuel total from enemy ships within 50 LY. It will only steal fuel from races that you are at war with. This device works after movement. It can not steal from a ship that has less than 20% system damage and a cloaking device that is turned on. You can only take a max of 50kt units of fuel per turn, when that limit is reached no more fuel will be stolen, even when there are more ships in the area. Fuel can not be stolen from the Solorian.
• Gambling Deck: This device generates money and it has four basic requirements to make money. Rules 1 & 2 make the money and rules 3 & 4 limit how the money  from 1 & 2 can be made.
  1) Colonists in the ships guest quarters. This device will generate 1 MC per colonist on board, up to a maximum of 1000MC for 1000 colonists on board.
  2) Colonists in bases below the ship. The ship will generate 300MC for every 1million colonists in the base(s) directly below the ship. (You do not have to own the bases to get the device to work).
  3) Is the Device in deep space? If the ship is in deep space the maximum revenue that can be generated by the device is limited to 50MC. If the Device is over a base with less than 1million colonists then it is still considered to be in deep space or in a non-populated area.
  4) Is there another Gambling Deck within 15ly? If more than one gambling deck ship is operating in the 15ly area the total income generated by all the ship devices in that area is limited to 500 mc. i.e. 250mc for 2 ships (500/2), 50mc for 10 ships (500/10) or 1mc per ship device if 500 devices are on in the 15ly area (500MC max/500 ships = 1mc per ship device).
• Gravity Well Generator: Has a range of 50 LY. Any hyperdrive ship within the 50 LY range of a gravity well ship can not hyperjump. The device will cause passing hyperjumping ships to drop back into normal space. The device requires 10 KT of fuel to run. The device has no effect on warp chunnel jumps or jump gates.
• Hyper-space beacon: A powerful sub-space signal allows all Hyperspace capable ships to use the beacons location as a waypoint, as long as it is within their normal hyperspace range. Grav-mines & grav-well generators can be bypassed this way. The beacon must be activated for a full turn before the signal generator is fully charged & operational. While the beacon is activated, the ships engines must be turned off, but other ships systems can operate normally. The beacon increases the sensor noise of the ship massively when activated.
• Limpet Grapple :  By setting your Escort target to a ship at the same location, the Limpet grapple will attach itself to that ships hull. Your ship will then follow the targets movement exactly - regardless of minefields, speed, chunnel transits, hyperspace, jump-gates etc. The target ship will expend slightly more fuel when moving, as it has the additional mass of your ship to move. Only one limpet grapple can be attached to a target.
• Morph Device: By setting the transfer target to any ship currently being scanned, the disguised ship will appear on enemy sensors & in VCR’s as being the ship selected (Name, Race, Ship type & ID number etc. will be identical). If sensor contact with the target ship is lost, the device will not function. NB. The sensor image of the disguised ship is not increased/decreased by this device.
• Paradigm Shifter: At the end of the turn, causes a base owned by you, at the ships location, to move to the planet with the highest current colonist population on it. No other destination can be specified, as the device is self-targetting. When the transport is complete, the ship the device is on is destroyed. This device will only function if the ship is fully crewed.
• Ram Scoop: Takes in 20 kt of fuel if moving faster than 20 ly per turn. If moving less than 20LY a turn the device does nothing.
• Reticulian Light Beam: Places enemy colonists in prison pod at a rate of 50,000 a turn. The device only works when the ship has an empty pod bay and is parked over an enemy base.
• Show Lounge: This device generates money and it has four basic requirements to make money. Rules 1 & 2 make the money and rules 3 & 4 limit how the money  from 1 & 2 can be made. Rule 5 is a happiness bonus rule.
  1) Crews on the ships. This device will generate 0.1 MC per colonist on board, up to a maximum of 50MC for 500 crew members on board.
  2) Colonists in bases below the ship. The ship will generate 100MC for every 1million colonists in the base(s) directly below the ship. (You do not have to own the bases to get the device to work).
  3) Is the Device in deep space? If the ship is in deep space the maximum revenue that can be generated by the device is limited to 50MC. If the Device is over a base with less than 1million colonists then it is still considered to be in deep space or in a non-populated area.
  4) Is there another Show Lounge within 15ly? If more than one Show Lounge ship is operating in the 15ly area the total income generated by all the ship devices in that area is limited to 250 mc. i.e. 166mc for 2 ships (250/2), 25mc for 10 ships (250/10) or 1mc per ship device if 250 devices are on in the 15ly area (250MC max/250 ships = 1mc per ship device).
  5) The device will increase the happiness of the colonists on bases under the ship by 3 points.
• Siren HAARP: Has a 20LY range. Removes crew from enemy ships and turns them into your own crew. Solorian are immune to the device. The device will take up to 20% of the crew limit of the ship with the HAARP device. This means the Lady Royale Class Ship has the power to remove 1400 enemy crew from enemy ships at a range of 20 LY. This device works after all movement is finished. The ship must have room for the new crew members, or the number taken will be reduced to what the ship can hold. NB – On a Mosquito, the HAARP has the additional limit, of not being able to take crew from an enemy ship, after the enemy crew level drops to 25% of its normal level.
• Spice Processor: Processes natives directly into spice, which is stored in pods. Amorphous natives will produce 3 units of spice each. Other natives produce 1 unit of spice for every 3 natives. 1,000 natives can be processed each turn. Affects natives on planets or in bases (even through an enemies active base-shield).
• Wing launcher: Adds 300LY to the normal travel range of a fighter wing, if activated. The wing must begin the turn docked to the ship & be given launch orders. This speed bonus will only count towards movement to the first waypoint & cannot be used to intercept or escort.

Ship Super Weapons

• Nemesis Torpedo: A powerful anti-fighter weapon. All fighters and pods in a battle are vaporized when the weapon is fired. All ships with a hull mass of under 100 KT are destroyed instantly in the blast. Ships with a hull mass of more than 100 KT and more than 50 shield points will be drained of 50 shield points and take no damage. Ships with a hull mass of over 100 KT and no shields remaining will take damage ranging from 1% to 130%, depending on how far they are from the center of the blast and their hull mass. This weapon will destory your own ships and fighters just as well as enemy units. Exotic tech can be bought that will make fighter craft highly resistant to nemesis torpedo blasts.
• World Crusher Missile: Has a range of 100LY. Uses 300 ord when fired. Can be fired as long as you have ordnance to arm it. To use it turn it on and target an enemy base or planet within 100 LY of your ship. The missile has a 33% chance of hitting each base on the target planet. When a base is hit it is completely destroyed. The surface of the planet will be covered with the remains of the base. A shield will protect the base from being harmed. The world crusher firing takes place after movement and combat. The world crusher missile targeting system produces 120 units of sensor image noise when used. If the exotic tech Transphased World Crusher is used the weapon can be fired through enemy base shields..

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