Yes, another new faction that no-one else will ever play! Well, hopefully I'm being pessimistic. Download The Unity Engineers at
www.angelfire.com/games2/simpson/ This is an early version, with no special graphics etc, but on the up side it is about 2k. Here is the readme info.
The premise
A ship like the unity would have carried more than religous maniacs, security guards, politicians and pure scientists. There would be a group of skilled professional engineers, for the purpose of directing and executing development on Chiron. Being engineers, they would probably have formed their own clique, from which a faction would naturally emerge.
The specifics
+1 Industry, 3/4 normal rush buying cost and 1/2 price raise/lower terrain : well, they're good engineers!
+1 commerce : they have many saleable skills
-1 growth : Workaholics
-1 planet : Building sites are dirty places
Tech applied physics
Oh, yes, and they salvaged some construction equipment from the unity before leaving.. so they start with a free terraformer.
The AI plays them quite well, but I think they are reasonably balanced. Please try them and tell me your opinion!
[This message has been edited by Simpson II (edited July 22, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Simpson II (edited July 22, 2000).]