Distant Worlds: Universe Star Trek: The Picard Era

Description
Star Trek: The Picard Era is a mod for Distant Worlds:Universe, created by a group of fans led by Igarda. It offers 22 Star Trek Races & 4 pirate groupings; The Shakturi and Mechanoids are not playable but are available for non-canon play.
PLAYABLE STAR TREK RACES:
ANDORIAN, BAJORAN, BENZITE, BORG, BREEN, CARDASSIAN, CHALNOTH, DOMINION, FEDERATION
FERENGI, GORN, HIROGEN, KAZON, KLINGON, KTARIAN, REMAN, ROMULAN, SHELIAK, SON'A
TAMARIAN, THOLIAN & YRIDIAN
PLAYABLE PIRATE GROUPINGS
THE ORION SYNDICATE, THE MAQUIS, THE KORGATH BARBARIANS & THE KHAN PRIVATEERS
- Shipsets - All 22 playable races have their own set. Pirates have 2 specific shipsets. Phantom Pirates have their own.
- Characters - Currently 524 images, over 1000 characters (some share a generic image or symbol)
- Troop images - All races have their own set.
- Dialogue - All races have their own dialog.
- Flagshapes - All races have their own flag and color schemes.
- Music - 36 tracks from Star Trek The Next Generation's first 3 seasons composed by Ron Jones (Fair Use Respected)
- System names - 9000+ Star Trek and other astronomical system names for variety.
- Race files- Completed. May require balance tweaking, please report any major issues
- Bias settings - Completed. May require balance tweaking, please report any major issues
- Policy files - Completed. May require balance tweaking, please report any issues
- Victory conditions - Complete. Please report any issues
- Race Event types - Complete. Please report any issues
- The Borg race shipset size-scaled to near-canon (at least closely!)
- New government added - Religious Unity (Race specific ~ Bajoran only)
- Each Race may have their own specific UI icons and graphics {OPTIONAL} (located in the images\UI\chrome\[The Race Name]\ folder)
- Minimum garrisoned troop per colony set to 4 for defense against invasion or pirate raids.
- Rumors of Crystalline Entity sightings (replaces the Silvermist)
- A few select Star Trek resource images and Component names. Galactopedia entries have been modified.
- Some weapon effect replacements
- Message pop ups appear as Starfleet PADDs
- Numerous Star Trek sound effects
- Shakturi and Mechanoids are not overwritten so you can still play the story, just with your choice of the Star Trek races.
- Milky Way Galaxy map with Star Trek race placements - NOTE: [WIP] Not completed yet - Will be included in Version 2.0 coming soon!
- More to come in the near future with Version 2.0; Galaxy map, more race characters, more minor races, etcetera.

Installation of Distant Worlds Universe Star Trek The Picard Era Mod:
1. Unzip the file.
2. Copy the folder 'Star Trek The Picard Era' to your Matrix Games\Distant Worlds\Customization\ folder
3. Run the game and at game main menu select 'Change Theme', then select the Star Trek Picard Era mod and click 'Switch Theme'
4. If you wish to play a 'close to canon' immersive game, select start a classic game, then make sure to deselect
'Enable Return of the Shakturi story Events' from the last game setup screen.
5. You may also choose to play ANY of the other game-type selections with this mod except for 'The Ancient Galaxy' selection,
which is its own mod in itself.

*** This Theme should be compatable with many of the UI, AI and Graphic Mods made for Distant Worlds Universe ***