I made all Ares ships playable in my "all ships playable" mod, but this is different. It tries to simulate being a member of the Ares Orthodoxy, not just flying one of their ships.

Re-uploaded at 3 downloads. Added an Ares Mapper so you have at least half a chance to survive. Otherwise you run out of fuel almost every time.

YYYEEESSS!!!!

TheLastBrunnenG, I believe that a mod like this has a better chance to be an adventure extension. In any case, it's a very good mod :D

Very creative!

I think it would make a good adventure extension.

Good work! I'm having a lot of fun playing so far, but it was nearly unplayable before I changed the playedships to start with a targetting rom, military ID, and black market ID. It seems especially strange to me that you need a commonwealth military ID before the Ares will install military items.

That's a good idea, recode the Ares stations to ignore military ID, or create an Ares Military ID. Let me read up on creating adventure extensions too!

Hehe this thing sure is fun; however im' playing this slightly modified; I fixed the thing so you dont need a military id and dont need a black market id, because well your an ares; the black market should know your not a commonwealth official.. :P other than those slight modifications I did, its a fun mod! :D

UPDATE 9-FEB-2010, 74 downloads: fixed docking so Ares stations don't check Military ID, added Ares Map ROM to all Ares playerships.

Portions of the standard game overwritten: Black Market, standard topology, Ares stations, ships, sovereign, and encounters. Note that the standard Wolfen, EI500, and Sapphire are not available as starting ships when using this mod.

What I want to know, is why this mod over-writes TRANSCENDENCE.XML ?

'Cause now all the characters I create are immediately attacked by whatever is docked at the Sisters of Domina station in Eridani. I bet they think I'm an Ares, even though I am not.

Update: Successfully located the edited portion of Transcendence.XML causing this problem (Soverigns). Next time, please use a seperate XML to apply this change (remember, "MOD" means module, not modification!)

Hey i just want to say its impossible to get past Heretic because your not friendly with the research outposts. Also the Ares research outpost tells you to go away. Hope that helps. Great job by the way.

oops wasnt logged in on last post :P

Moved to Developer's Vault. I'm not happy with how this is written and I don't have time to fix it. It needs to be an Adventure Extension and needs more work to make the Ares truly playable.