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[G&K] Batarian Civilization

Adds the Batarian Hegemony as a Civilization, led by Ka'hairal Balak.

Balak is a violent, but intelligent, military leader of the Batarians. Despite being responsible for a number of terrorist attacks, he believes every action he performs is for the best of his people. He guides the proud Batarians towards the future they deserve, and is willing to ignore his differences with his enemies if it is for the betterment of his people.

Trait: (Pillars of Strength) Gain 10% increased production and 15% reduced gold. Horses, Iron, Coal and Aluminum provide double quantity.

UB: Batarian State Arms. Replaces Factory. +25% production. +4 production. -15% gold. Costs 1 Coal.

UU: Slave. Replaces worker. Cheap. No maintenance. -15% effectiveness.

This is the sixteenth of our planned Mass Effect civs, the Batarians. Great leaders know that society isn't handed to you. It must be built. Production and resources are all that truly matters. Armies, cities, wonders, these are the lifeblood of a powerful civilization. With more production, and more resources, you'll be the envy of all others.

So you'd think the Batarians, with their secretive government, would be hard to design, but they actually weren't. Their slave culture inspired us to take them in a previously unexplored direction; a race based around production.

The Batarians were always a bit of problem in the galaxy, but never a problem that was taken too seriously, generally because it was always assumed they played up how powerful they actually were, hence the indirect attacks from 'rogue' Batarians. Their trait reflects that. Instead of being a direct threat through combat, they're an indirect threat due to the army and civilization they could build. +10% production from all sources, and double quantities of most strategic resources is great, but the gold penalty, inspired by their isolation from galactic society, helps keep them as a bit of a wildcard. There are many directions they can take and the resources they can provide stops the world from ignoring them.

Their UB, the BSA, grants another fantastic boost to production in exchange for a rather hefty penalty to gold, and their UU is of course a slave which, in exchange for decreased effectiveness, is incredibly cheap. Both of these helped to represent their production even further.

This is a dual project and we plan on creating and releasing all these civs (in no particular order) in the near future, and hopefully you'll enjoy them. :)

Volus - released
Hanar - released
Turians - released
Asari - released
Krogan - released
Quarians - released
Drell - released
Salarians - released
Elcor - released
Batarians - released
Collectors - released
Geth - released
Cerberus - released
Vorcha - released
Rachni - released
Protheans - released
Systems Alliance - released
Reapers - released
Terminus Systems - released

Mass Effect and all related names are tm and (c) to Bioware, obviously.

Troubleshooting

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