Dark Horizon

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Dark Horizon

Storyline Teaser

Six centuries ago, humanity fought for it's survival on Curia[shurr-eye], not against any mortal enemy, but against a virus, brought upon us as retribution for the sin and anger of seven hundred million living souls...

As the virus spread, the Empire did all it could to contain it, sealing off entire cities, and burning them to the ground... my fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, father, Marcius Carn was sealed within a city, the Capitol city, the jewel of Imperial glory, pride, and strength. The very wall that was put up to defend the city, was used to keep them within it... It is estimated over fifty million people were within the city, and a population that large, would not simply be left in. The Empire knew this, within 3 days, there was no city, burned to the ground! I am only here talking to you today because Marcius Carn was able to escape the city... and pass on his findings on the virus, before the virus took his life, before he became one of the five hundred million dead and dieing.

Marcius had a son, Ghespra Carn, one who had been alive before the infection... and also on who had escaped to one of the nine nation that seals themselves off from the world... when the findings were passed on his findings, it would lead to the discovery that would rock the remnants of humanity to their core... his findings were as follows...

"After intense observation by myself, and the rest of the doters of 300 patients infect with the virus... after 4 days, only 9 had recovered, from this we can assume that there is a 3 percent immunity rate... but after recovering from the initial fever, and vomiting... their personalities seemed different... their grasp of language seemed to change, and they displayed an aggressive attitude, as well as miss-coloration in the skin, eyes, and I have seen them give... odd looks...

After three months, the virus had spread vastly throughout the land, and our 9 surviving test subjects were no longer understandable... they were speaking to one another inside an odd language, yet they seemed to understand why they were there, and what we were saying to them...

I took a blood sample from subject number 4... and compared it to an example of the original virus... the virus can changed... it was now something that would literally destroy a human mind, and reconstruct it into... this... thing...

after 2 more months, subject number 2, a female, who was pregnant upon arrival, gave birth today... the child was barely recognizable as a human... long arms and legs... no hair... grayish skin, red eyes... and the teeth seemed to be replaced by a plate of bone...

After this, I can conclude that those with a mild immunity to the virus, will be a host to the virus, and the virus will mutate in an unprodictable manner, and the mutations should worsen with each generation... of the 3 percent immune... we can assume that over 10 million people like this exist... "

Only a matter of days after the completion of his work, the government closed off the city... he escaped the only way he could... he didn't... instead, he had a messenger on the outside of the city make copies of his findings, and send them to the Empire, and his son...

We can assume....

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I will finish this in a little while, okay? This whole thread will be completed in only a short time.

until then, here is the thingy I posted on the hive.



Dark Horizon



Creator(S): HalakBalakBalak(US East)

Stage: Alpha

Type: Defense / Survival, Strategy / Risk

Map Size: Epic

Suggested Players: Full House.

Objectives: [Humanity]Survive Against the enemy Horde, and reclaim the lands humanity ounce ruled, and rise to power over your fellow men.

[Tagrinmon]Wipe out the last of the human city states, and prevent them from wiping you out.



Story Teaser

Long ago, in the land of Prosperity and Peace, a great terror came to the ounce proud empire of Emeril, the plague killed many hundreds of thousands of the kingdoms people... after 10 years of death, disorder and fear, groups of towns and cities allied together, to seal themselves from the world while the plague ravaged all those they had sealed out.

In order to get rid of the plague in their own lands, they had to do horrible things, killing all those who had the plague, and their families, this time of peril, called for such a measure. When the virus was gone in their own lands, they waited out the storm, unaware of what was to away them, when looking into the lands they ounce freely resided in, the land of Peace and Prosperity, had been brought to a bloody end, and now, 6 centuries after they had locked themselves away, in fear that the virus would return, a new enemy was there to destroy what was left of humanity on the Island continent the fight to survive against the Tagrinmon horde, had begun.

Factions/Nations Teaser

Nuldova

Known for their ancient tradition of horse riding, Nuldovian Horsemen were prized by the Imperial Army. Laying in the central, plain regions of the land, they are among the few surviving human city states.

-Cavalry advantage early game: Pre-Gunpowder creation.

Migrarin

A mountain people, who have developed a tradition of using Artillery to get things done in war, but for over 200 years, they were nothing more then a region inside the Empire, their machines of war taken from them, and now, they strive to develop new technologies to defeat the threat of the Tagrinmon horde.

Tech advantage early and middle game: Can develope guns before any other nation, and trigger the gunpowder age.

Tagrinmon Horde



WILL BE ADDED LATER.



Game Features(Incomplete set)

Walls

-Based off burrows

-Open/close gates

-Can station 3 archers a segment.

-Wall builders only trained by a Masons Guild, which is constructed by a castle/city mason.

-Castle masons build a war type masons guild, offering the ability to station a unit inside for extra protection.

-City masons offer better, but much slower construction of walls.

-When a wall segment is destroyed with a unit inside, the containing unit is destroyed also.

Cities

-Capture a nuetral or enemy town, city, or castle, and revert it to a settlement, convert it into a castle, or convert it into

a city.

-Each city provides ten food for creation of money producing structures.

-Economy is based off of civic buildings, and Castles/cities... Civic buildings produce wood, and cost one food, allowing for a total of 300 of them.

Units

-Cities produce gold, twice-three times as much as a castle, but are in effective as defensive structures, and cannot have defences other then walls and basic towers around them, unlike castles, which will allow for all defense and offense structures.

Units

-Special abilities such as push back, guard, shield wall, volley, charge, and block.

-Region based recruitment.

Castles

17 types

-Castle specific units.

-Upgradeable to be able to train better wall builders, and war contractors.

Screen Shots

I am sorry, but at this time, I cannot provide screen shots, until all the unit systems have been planned out, the the basic human, and Tagrinmon units have been created, and tested.



Preview incomplete, and will be updated.

I am open to all suggestions, thoughts and criticism, and more developers will be joining soon, so don't assume I am along on this.

If you would like to have a part in this project, please PM me.

NOTES:

-This is not the complete preview, over the next 2 weeks I will be adding new features as they are proven to work, tested, and archived by myself, and others.|||You have some excellent ideas there, this project sounds interesting. You might want to shorten the background story (or put it further down) so that people can quickly read what the map is about.