Empires Of Planets 4

The Cyborg

Race Attributes

• Low growth rate
• Can turn humanoid, bovinoid, reptilian, avian, insectoid, anphibian, and ghipsoldal natives into colonists
• Can turn all, except Crystal, enemy colonists, crew and troops into colonists
• Colonists are highly resistant to being unhappy
• A great number of mineral mines on a planet (more than 100) can cause colonists to become confused to the point that no income is generated
• Can not train troops
• Can not buy or sell contraband
• Can not be spied on
• Unable to spy on enemies
• Your colonists are automatically turned into crew as needed
• Any colonists that you send over to an enemy ship in a boarding action automatically turn into combat troops
• Lost crew on a ship is automatically replaced with colonists on board
• Duranium is automatically turned into armor to replace missing ship armor
• Very open to attack from cloaked ships
• Members of the race do not work in labor camps or labor mines
• Your colonists do not care if they are being held prisoners
• If your High Guard leader (King) is lost he is instantly replaced

Unique Units

• The Cyborg King Your one high guard unit is called the King. You can have one one King, if he is lost another will be activated to take his place. Any ship belonging to an enemy Cyborg will surrender to your King if it ends its movement within 10 LY of a planet your King is on or within 25 LY of a ship your King is in. Only one enemy Cyborg ship will surrender a turn and the surrender can be blocked by the enemy's King if he is within 300 LY of the ship that would otherwise surrender. The King will increase the growth rate of the planet he is on to a rating of 120, which is higher than most other races' growth rates. The King will increase the planet's tax income by 300%. If the King lands on a planet with over 100,000 native Humanoids your ship hull tech will be increased by 1 level. If the King lands on a planet with over 100,000 native Ghipsoldals your ship engine tech will be increased by 1 level. All the Ghipsoldal and Humanoid natives will be instantly turned into colonists. No megacredits are collected from these instant assimilation events. All other natives types are immune to the King's powers.
• The Cyborg Colonists Each colonist can capture 1 native on the planet per turn if you have 20,000 or less colonists on a planet. If you have over 20000 colonists the ratio of natives captured decreases slowly to a low of 0.2 natives per colonist when you have 100,000 or more colonists. Amorphous, siliconoid, and chupanoid natives are immune to capture. The Crystal race is immune to capture. It takes the assimulation of 6 Insectoid natives to make one Cyborg because of their smaller size.
• Cyborg Assimilator (Ground Assault Unit) Each unit increases the number of enemy colonists and natives that can be assimilated by 1000. It also gathers megacredits from all assimilated enemy colonists at a rate of 0.1 MC per enemy colonist taken by the Assimilator or colonists. Amorphous, siliconoid, and chupanoid natives are immune to assimilation. The Crystal race is immune to assimilation.

Missing Base Buildings

• Training center
• Pod pad
• Raid shelter
• Public space port
• Government center
• Base shield
• Undercity

Special Base Buildings

• King's Palace: costs 5000 megacredits to build plus 500 supplies. Your high guard (King) will build one automatically on any planet he is on spending 5000 megacredits without using supplies. Your King will build the palace even if you do not have high enough planet tech level. Each palace produces 1000 megacredits in the galactic central bank. (These central bank megacredits are sometimes called galactic credits or GCs) The palace will produce 100 megacredits for the base. If your high guard (King) is at the base the megacredits on the base will increase by 8%.. For example if you have 1,000,000 megacredits sitting at the base they will be increased by 80,000 to 1,080,000.

Ship Attributes

• Small cheap hyperjumping B200 Probe ship can be used to find natives and can carry enough colonists to begin the assimilation process
• Iron Slave fueler is good fuel and cargo hauler
• B222 Destroyer can sweep minefields
• Quietus Class Cruiser can assimilate enemy colonists
• The Firecloud's Warp chunnel can move fleets of ships unlimited distances
• The Firestorm's Base chunnel can move ground bases to other planets
• The self fueling, self repairing, ordnance making Biocide Class and Annihilation Class ships never have to return home for repairs. They can attack and use the spoils to rearm for the next fight.

Ship Special Devices

• Barbitic Mine Dropper: Converts ordnance units into Barbitic mines and drops them. Barbitic mines are powerful anti-ship mines that also can be used to destroy enemy minefields. When a barbitic minefield is detonated it does damage to all ships in the field and destroys most minefield in the radius of the field. When a minefield is set to detonate it will do so before all movement starts. Blowing a Barbitic minefield will completely clear the area of mines and allow safe travel through the area. All minefields have a limited life time of around 20 turns before they run out of power and disappear. Any ship belonging to another race moving through your barbitic minefield risks hitting a mine and taking massive damage. Minefields can be stacked on top of one another. Ships traveling speed 12 or less are safe from hitting barbitic mines.
• Gravitonic Mine Dropper: Converts ordnance units into gravitonic mines and drops them. Gravitonic mines are anti-hyper jump mines. A hyper jump can not be made by a ship in a gravitonic minefield. If a ship is jumping through hyperspace and they cross over a gravitonic minefield they will return to normal space. Ships moving through a gravitonic minefield can hit them and take some damage. A ship with a hull mass of 100 kt can take up to 10% hull damage per hit. Gravitonic mines are 10 times less powerful than barbitic mines but your odds of hitting a gravitonic mine is 2.6 times greater than your odds of hitting a barbitic. All ships traveling speed 12 or less are safe from hitting gravitonic mines. Gravitonic mines can be ordered to detonate and will do engine damage to all ships in the area, because they do not destroy other mines when they detonate a large number of them can be overlapped in a stack and do massive damage to ships in the area. Mines detonate before all movement happens. If the enemy's engine damage goes over 100% and you steal all their repair units they enemy is pretty much dead in space and you can attack it with boarding attacks turn after turn until you capture it.
• Mine Sweeper Array: Destroys one enemy minefield or recovers one minefield belonging to your race converting it into ordnance units and stores the ordnance on your ship. You do not collect ordnance from enemy minefield that you sweep. The device will not sweep cloaked minefields.
• Long Range Mine Detector: Allows you to see all minefield within 500 LY including cloaked ones. There are no negitive effects for using this device.
• Bioscanner: Its primary use is detecting native life on planets out to a distance of 700 LY. When on the bioscanner's findings will be reported in the ship's log. Using the scanner does not make the ship any more visible to the enemy than normal.
• Assimilation Beam: When turned on over an enemy base 250000 enemy colonists, crew, or troops are turned into Cyborg colonists and placed on board the ship. The device works through base shields. The device does not work on natives or the Crystal race.
• Warp Chunneler: Moves a ship and all ships next to it to another ship that has a warp chunnel device.The target chunnel ship must be a member of the same race and chunneling ship. Pods wings and ships can all move through a warp chunnel. Chunneling burns 100 KT of fuel. There is no limit to the distance warp chunnel ships can move. Chunneling can not be blocked, stopped, or disrupted by gravitonic mines or warp well ships. There is no limit to how big or how many ships can travel with the chunneling ship. To use the device set your ship's speed to zero, set your waypoint 1 to the (x,y) of a ship that you own and also has a chunnel device that you want to travel to. Turn on the chunnel device. If you have enough fuel your ship and all ships, wings and pods next to you will be at the other ship next turn. Ships, pods and wings belonging to other races can also travel through the warp chunnel with you. The only ships that will not enter the chunnel are ships that have a command code set to "NCH".
• Ground Base Chunneler: Will only move a base from one planet to another. Does not move anything else. Burns 100 KT of fuel to do the move. The target planet must have a ground chunnel or warp chunnel ship over it. Ether one will work. To use the device park the ground chunnel ship (Firestorm Class) over a base that you want to move. Set the ship's speed to zero and the ship's waypoint to any planet with a Firecloud or Firestorm Class ship over it that you own. Turn on the Ground chunnel device, next turn the ground base will be at the other planet. If there is already a base there under your ownership on the planet the two bases will merge into one base. The ship that sent the base will remain at the location it was at. This device does not move ships.
• Laser Mining Drill: Extracts mineral ore from the core of the planet under the ship and converts it into metals and stores the metals in the ship's cargo hold. The only limit to the amount that can be taken is the size of the ship's cargo hold. The drill increases the climate of the planet by 0.3 a turn and the HD stress of the planet by at least 10 to 60 points. The device has no effect on ore or metal that is sitting on the planet's surface. It does not mine fuel or fuel ore.
• Global Warmer: When on it will warm a planet by 5 climate units until the climate reaches 50. The ship burns 5 kt of fuel to change the climate by 5 units.
• Global Icer When on it will cool planet by 5 climate units until the climate reaches 50. The ship burns 5 kt of fuel to change the climate by 5 units.
• Food To Supply Converter: When on all the food on the ship is turned into supplies. One food unit is turned into one supply unit.
• Mobile Ord Factory: When on it turns supplies into ord units. One supply unit is turned into 10 ord units. It is only limited by the size of its cargo hold and ordnance hold.
• Mobile Repair Plant: Produces repair units from duranium. One duranium unit yields 100 repair units. The only limits as to the amounts produced is the size of the repair hold.
• Hacker Droid: When on, the plans to the ship being towed are stored in the ships data bank. Will only work if the ship's data bank does not currently have a ship plan in it. Will work on any ship under tow, including enemy ships that you are not in control of. To use it just turn it one and tow the ship that you want the plans of. If you end up towing it you will get the ship plans.
• Boarding Laser: Only used when you are transporting your colonists, troops, crew, or high guard to an enemy ship as a hostile boarding action. The boarding laser helps your troops take over the enemy ship. It cuts holes in the enemy ship doing between 5% and 300% hull damage to the target depending on the size of the target ship. It kills up to 10% of the enemy crew, 40% of the enemy colonists, and 10% of the enemy troops. You need to beam over 1 of your guys for every 5 enemies you want to take out. There are 200 movement phases and combat will not start until phase 50 so during the first one quarter of movement you have time to fly past an enemy ship, transport over a boarding party, rip the enemy ship up with the boarding laser and get away back out to deep space. The Crystals are immune to Boarding lasers.
• Ore Processing: When on the ship grabs ore from any pod in the area ( including ones that do not belong to you), any planet you are over and any of your own bases. The ore is converted into metals and stored in the ship's cargo hold. You can have the metals automatically transported down to a base you own if you are over one with the ship command code BDM (Beam Down Metals). Two ore units yield one metal unit. The only limit as to how much can be processed in a turn is the size of the ship's cargo hold. Ore processing costs nothing.
• DTMS-N fuel Converter: The device when on will convert 10 supply units into 1 kt of fuel. It can also convert 1 duranium, 1 tritanium, or 1 molybdenum into 1 fuel unit. The converter only uses metals and supplies that are in the ship's cargo hold. It will stop processing when the ship's fuel tank is full.
• Alchemy Forge:When on, it grabs supply units from junk pods and resupply pods belonging to anyone, plus supplies from planets and bases that you own and converts the supplies to metals. Twelve supply units yield 1 duranium, 1 tritanium, and 1 molybdenum. Control switches on the ship can limit the process to just one metal type if you wish.

Ship Super Weapons

• None

Playing As

Build King Palaces when possible to increase the money going into the central bank so that you can increase your tech as quickly as possible. Build and launch B200 probe ships filled with colonists to take over as many worlds with natives that you can assimilate. Build bases to strip the resources from as many planets as possible and use the ground base chunnel device to move the base filled with good stuff to a planet in your space where you can protect it with a fleet of cubes. Move your king to a planet with a good climate and build just farms and no cities or smelters, cities and smelters will slow the growth rate of the colonists. Ship in food to the planet and up to 10 million colonists. Your King will increase the growth rate to 120 and cause a 300% increase in the taxes collected. When you have over 20 million colonists on your King's base ship colonists off to nearby bases on other worlds and place them in cities to earn extra megacredits. Set you tax rate to enslavement. Build an attack force of Biocide Class and Annihilation Class ships and attack enemy bases as a fleet. Fill your fleet with the spoils from the base that you use destroyed and use it to rearm, repair, and refuel. Then move one to the next enemy base. Use the warp chunnel device to add ships to your fleet or to quickly get home to protect yourself from attack.

Playing Against

Attack them early in the game while they are still weak. Destroy the weak bases their probes will make all over the place. Send out light ships with good scanners to find all the new Cyborg bases and attack at once. Protect worlds with high levels of native population that the Cyborg can quickly assimilate. If you have to fight a war against their fleet attck with as many large ships as you can field. The larger the weapons the better. If your race has good ground combat skills ground attack them with a large group of troops. You will be able to reclaim 30% of defeated Cyborg as colonists. The Birds can reclaim 50% of the defeated Cyborg. The Crystals and Lizards can not reclaim any Cyborg. If you see a lone Firecloud or Firestorm ship kill it quick before the whole Cyborg fleet appears out of a warp chunnel.

Natural Enemies

• The Crystals: They will trap your ships in web mines and they are the only enemy race that can not be assimilated.
• The Birdmen: Their ships are hard to detect and Cyborg bases are open to attack due to the Cyborg's inablity to build base shields. Their Darkwing G battleship can fire its weapons right through Cyborg shields. Fear the Darkwing G. The Birdmen Darkwing G has a Nanovirus weapon that can transform 30% of the Cyborgs on a base under them into natives again. The Nanovirus will kill your King. Birdman ground troops can reclaim 50% of all defeated cyborg, they will become colonists. Other races can only recover 30% of the defeated cyborg.
• Stormers: They have cloaking ships that can reak havoc on your unshielded bases. Their ships are highly resistant to photon torpedoes, a favorite Cyborg weapon.

Cyborg Race Stats