Alternate Reality

One of the primary racial traits. Alternate Reality races live on starbases rather than planets, and so are radically different in a number of ways to other PRTs.

Foremost among the advantages of ARs is the ability to create a mineral fountain, producing potentially unlimited minerals.

Race specifications

• Exclusive Hulls
  • The Death Star is the largest starbase hull ever known
• Exclusive Components
  • Orbital Construction Module that contains viral weapons capable of killing 2000 enemy colonists per year and that colonizes worlds by transforming into an Orbital Fort
• Exclusive Abilities
  • Lives on starbases only, not planets
  • Starbases are 20% cheaper to build (non-cumulative with Improved Starbases)
  • Population acts as natural miners and scanners
  • Remote mine own planets (since they live in orbit).
  • Maximum population is determined by the size of the starbase, not the planet
  • Planetary resources grow as Energy Tech Level increases
• Limitations
  • Cannot build planetary installations
  • Interstellar travel kills 3% of any colonists in the fleet per year

Library articles

• AR Guide by Leonard Dickens - Revised: 21st September 2000
• Article Library#Remore Mining
• "Fighting AR Deathstars" by Nate Burgess 1997 v2.6/7
• Article Library#Alternate Reality