"From somewhere deep in the furthest regions of space, They came. At first, just a solitary Drone. Then a bigger, more powerful Raider, and then a whole cluster of them, all attacking together, dispassionately, with supreme precision. You barely got away the last time, and then the alarm sounds: they've obliterated a Taikon station, and left nothing in their wake but the battered and broken hull of a doomed Corporate Enforcer. You realize that, at all costs, somehow, they must be stopped. Reluctantly, you set out to find them. Your skills are good; you've even taken down an enemy dreadnought or two. But this is nothing like that -- this is more ships, and more BIG ships, than you have ever seen together at one time. This is the Collective, and they are unstoppable..."
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=1188#6775
Okay, a little behind-the-scenes: Originally, this mod was originally uploaded to Xelerus pretty much as an experiment. Basically, the idea was: Xenophobe Enemy Encounter ships & behavior, with non-Xeno, Luminous station graphics for the big ships. Well, turns out you can't simply cut 'n' paste station graphics for ship graphics. So, I spent the holidays working on a fix, adding masks, new colors (thx IrfanView), new ship sizes, and so on. Reloaded at 66 downloads, v1p4 is the finished result. Is it *technically* a new mod? No, but, I'd say it's about 80-90% all-new or heavily revised. Either way, I'm fairly confident: You're gonna love this!!!
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