In case you haven't noticed I have started a story line based on this mod. The story is called
simply enough "Empires". If you have read the books but never played the game most items won't ring a bell at this point. I think Crusade is the first book in the story line chronologically. The books themselves aren't in order with the game history. Anyway if you have Crusade that takes place around High Tech 6 and the Tal-Re Republic; which the story line revolves around, is only high tech 1 right now.