[Shadowstar]

One of the early requests I had from my old Stars! player base was to somehow recreate the feeling that there is actually empty space between star systems, so this was an attempt to do that. The theory is that warp points aren't just confined to systems, they can appear anywhere. It also presents some interesting territorial situations, such as deep space stations, and areas where anomalies can spawn. It also allows players with the right tech to build thier own star systems in areas that are otherwise empty.

As for the graphics, no stock images should be included anywhere in the files, except for the components.bmp and other icon sheets (those are included since they had to be modified). As for the imagemod, without it, those images would come up as blanks. I tried to seperate them at one point and lost some of the graphics, so I decided to keep them in.

If you know of a way to do it in a cleaner way, let me know. Otherwise, one of these days I am planning on replacing the parts of it that I'm using with my own content anyway, since I can do it, just didn't have the time. Ideally, one day Starscape should be completely independent of any other mods, namely the image mod. I always prefer to use my own graphics anyway.

BTW, the majority of new planet pics are my work, I only used a few from the image mod that I liked. I could probably remove most of that stuff in a later Version.