Beware the dark regions of deep space...

[Ragnarok]

Devnull mod has monsters...and they are very difficult to beat if you start out close to them. Just a handful of these monsters can wipe out an entire fleet of ships.

Be careful against them!

[Ed Kolis]

Adamant also has mosters, though I think Devnull was the first mod with monsters...
Supposedly there will be monsters (well, Sithrak) in SE5 that not only attack random empires like in MOO2, but can be summoned through the use of some sort of dimensional portal, though that's rather old information from an IRC chat and that feature might have never made it in... I think it did make it in though (at least the attacking part, who knows about the summoning?) since the Sithrak do appear in a recent SFI newsletter
I wonder if one of the victory conditions is to use said dimensional portal to attack the Sithrak homeworld and defeat them, ala MOO2? Man, if that's the case, it does provide an interesting choice (when you research the portal, do you use it to enslave the other races under Sithrak dominion or take the fight to the Sithrak?) but it would still be more than a bit derivative
Just as long as in SE6 we don't find that the Sithrak have become the New Abbidons setting up the Abbidon Senate and wiping out the Eee, Praetorians, and Phong because the world you attacked wasn't really their homeworld and they got really pissed and assembled the Green and Black Fleets to enslave the entire galaxy and they create the Reaper Virus which becomes sentient and rebels against them and a bunch of other crap in a novella disguised as a game manual

[Black_Knyght]

A new menace has just been spotted, destroying all life on any world unlucky enough to be in it's path...

...the Ancient Berserker...

[Urendi Maleldil]

Yikes! It's a deadly sphere of death.

[Black_Knyght]

Okay - Admittedly not as scary or creepy looking as the others, but it was inspired by Saberhagen's "Berserkers" saga. Gigantic war machines that exist for one purpose, and one purpose only - destroy all life in the universe....

THEY just might scare the bejesus out of you...

[Ragnarok-X]

Wow, while all look impressive, i especially love the Recluse. Very cool.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Black_Knyght said:
A new menace has just been spotted, destroying all life on any world unlucky enough to be in it's path...

...the Ancient Berserker...

Hey, another Saberhagen fan.

His Dracula is quite simply superior to all others I've seen and his 'The Frankenstien Papers' (I think that's the name) is an excellent re-adaption of the Frankenstien story.

[Black_Knyght]

Silently wandering from star to star, draining stars and worlds alike of all life-sustaining energy...


...the vampiric Starkiller...

[Baron Munchausen]

Ed Kolis said:
Adamant also has mosters, though I think Devnull was the first mod with monsters...
Supposedly there will be monsters (well, Sithrak) in SE5 that not only attack random empires like in MOO2, but can be summoned through the use of some sort of dimensional portal, though that's rather old information from an IRC chat and that feature might have never made it in... I think it did make it in though (at least the attacking part, who knows about the summoning?) since the Sithrak do appear in a recent SFI newsletter
I wonder if one of the victory conditions is to use said dimensional portal to attack the Sithrak homeworld and defeat them, ala MOO2? Man, if that's the case, it does provide an interesting choice (when you research the portal, do you use it to enslave the other races under Sithrak dominion or take the fight to the Sithrak?) but it would still be more than a bit derivative
Just as long as in SE6 we don't find that the Sithrak have become the New Abbidons setting up the Abbidon Senate and wiping out the Eee, Praetorians, and Phong because the world you attacked wasn't really their homeworld and they got really pissed and assembled the Green and Black Fleets to enslave the entire galaxy and they create the Reaper Virus which becomes sentient and rebels against them and a bunch of other crap in a novella disguised as a game manual

The Sithrak are just another race in SE 5. And the 'plain' space monsters aren't implemented (yet). Hopefully they will be in a patch, or in SE 5 Gold when he gets around to that.

[Ed Kolis]

Aww