					9 Isles v.2:by mIke mcCoy
Note: this is vesion 2, replace the original, if you have it, with this version
(use Word Wrap for this document) 
Specs.........................................................................
Players:2 Single,4 on 2 teams(1st and 3rd, and 2nd and 4th  start together.) 
Ram:32megs	
Size:20x20
Map type: Metal Water Map
Installation: Place the included UFO file in your TA directory. The file address would be something like C:/Cavedog/Totala/9 Isles. ENJOY:)


Breifing......................................................................

Sometime near the end of the first war there was a meeting of all the Arm Commanders. The Commanders came all together to discuss the future of the Arm and to find a way to insure it. It was perhaps the most important meeting ever held.
	A recent discover of a hidden Core Commander on the planet Thorigam led the Arm to have to rethink the Core's stratergies. The Core had always been craftty. They were all experts of ambush, and hiding out when things got bad. They got even better at it as the tide of war shifted to toward the Arm. The weren't ever beaten easily.
	But the discovery on Thorigam was a revelation. The Commander was found in 300 feet of lava during terraforming operations. The find was completed unexpected and several lives were lost  when the Commander reactivated itself and then was destroyed. But for a Commander to survive in lava seemed impossible. Upon futher investigation, it appeared that the Commander had been there for at least 100 years and had full tactical coverage of the surounding area. It had been using a low power nanolathe to mantain it's armor in the deep lava. It was simply waiting to strike again. 
	This was a frightening thing. To think that a Core Commnader could be preasent anywhere. A skilled Commander could possibly hide on even the most heavily Arm occupied planet. Hundreds, even thousands, of Core Commanders could be in hiding, waiting for the Arm to win the War, then to simply to start a new empire were no one would think to look. Or to hold there positions and undermind and sabotage Arm expansion.
	It could never be allowed. The Core would have to be stopped. But it almost couldn't be stopped. If the Core was dug  in enough, in would never be possible to find everyone of them. The only possible solution was play the Core at it's own game.
	In an overwhelming decision, three Arm Commanders (the most the Arm could spare) were to be placed stratagicly throughout the galaxy, in places were the Core would never look. These would be the last survivers of a Core upset, instructed to reconstruct the always renagade Arm empire.	These three would be the last hope for a Arm victory and finally peace. But this was easier said then done.
	Stage One was to select three locations. Places were needed that the Core would never settle or even explore in the event of an Arm defeat. Someplace with little or no metal content, that would be impossible to oxidize in a metal planet. Or a world far from the center of the Core empire, that wouldn't be worth traveling to. With only three Commanders to spare, the positions would have to perfect.
	The planets were selected without much trouble; Regamy-a tiny asteroid on a far Arm of the Galaxy, Dareb-a tiny planet in the Mega Cluster in the Center of the Galaxy, and Xeyrt-a gas giant planet near Thorigam. They all seemed perfect for the purpose they were to serve, but one more diffucult decision lay ahead.	
	Who would go? This appeared to be more important than the hidding locations. The Commanders arugued for several hours till Veteran Commander stepped in and layed down the law. His words were always obeied for he was the first; the first Arm Commander to built after the Arm rebels defected. He had led the strike on Enather, the first battle of the War. He led in kills by over 3,000,000 and had thousands of tactical procedures. He was a god among the other Commanders.
	He spoke softly. He said that the top three Commanders in the Arm millatary would be hidden. It would be important in the event of a Core victory the best would be needed to rebuild the Arm.  He and his two subortinates would be hidden. But he also had another strategy.
	Of all the places in the Galaxy to hide, the Veteran Commander said the best place to hide would be on Core Prime. This would be the last place the Core would ever look and even though Core Prime was very densly populated, there was one place were Arm Commander could hide.
	Lond ago, before the War, before the Arm, back when the Core was still organic and patterning was not even a thought, an experiment was conducted on Core Prime. It was done in area far  from civilization, in the middle of Aqueous Body 154. In a place known as the 9 Isles. The region was specially constructed for the experiment, for which led to futre of Arm and Core; the nanolathing of the first Commander.
	The experiment it's self was extremly dangerous. Nanolathes of the time used highly radioactive isotopes to construct the basic energy skeletons and huge amounts of energy were needed to power the second stage nanobots. Additionaly, things like nanolathe intelligence chips, metal maker ioniziers, and micro-atomic fusion cotrollers had never been used together in such tightly packed conditions. The whole unit was on the razor edge of Core technology. It was an incredib endevour to say the least.
	But after several months of nanolathing, and an almost cripilling explosion, the Commander was completed. The future was sealed. And the place was proclaimed a holy site, and for good reason. To all Core citizens, this place meant the rebirth of the Core. It stood for everything the Core would go on to accomplish. No other icon inspired so many to do great things It meant everything to the Core and later the Arm. For during the first partof the War, no battles were fought here and no combat unit ever laid foot on this land.
	Over time, though, the memory was forgotten, but not the ideal. The place was never seen like a battle ground and was treated like one. That meant that there wasn't any radar or sonar implacments and there wasn't any tactical fly overs. The region was a dead zone. And with huge resource depoisits, it be the perfect place to stage rebirth.
	And so it was agreed. The Veteran Commander was immedatily preped as the other two Commanders were sent to Xeyrt and Dareb. The Veteran C. was given a very small radar jammer and secertly smuggled onto Core Prime. He was dropped off at sea port  that was on Aqueous Body 154. For two months the Commander treked on the cold ocean floor. Three times almost running into convoys and patrolships. But eventually the Commander reached the 9 Isles region and began to plan a battle plan if the time came.
	And so time pasted. The Arm won the War, the Core started it's Contingency and failed, the Arm tried and intrduce a computer virus to the Core during the Arm Vendeta, the Core atempted a massive opposition manuvear in Core Ressurection, and the small remainder of the two empires fought one last time during the Burning Times. Finally, it came down to one strike.
	The Arm had moved their master base to the planet of Gutiser after the Arm Vendeta. Both sides had sufurred great loses and all the hidden Commanders for both sides had been found and destroyed, except for the Arm Comander on Core Prime. Only two other Arm Commanders remanined at the base on Gutiser. The remaining Core army was stationed in space on a few light years from Gutiser. They had 3 remaining Commanders including their Veteran Commander: the original Commander frow which all others were copied. He couldn't be lost.	
	So just before the Last Battle, the three remaining Core Commanders gathered and talked. In order to preserve the Core incase the unthinkable did happen, the Veteran Commander was sent secretly back to Core Prime to begin rebuilding. Ironicly, he was sent to the 9 Isles region, since it had such large resource banks.
	The remaining forces clashed on Gutiser. The battle was short. Fearing defeat, the Arm activated the base's self-destruct sequence. But before the base could detonate on it's own, the Core penatrated the bases defenses and destroyed it. The resulting explosion vaporized the whole system, taking every Core and Arm unit.
	Back on Core Prime, the two Veteran Commanders stood in deep sleep. They were both only seconds from being reawakened. They were the last surviving units of the Core and the Arm. As it would seem, 10,000 years of total war had led up to this moment. Every thought of hate and destruction was about too be released in the most hellish battle ever. It was all going to Come down to this. These nine islands were going to burn.

Communication................................................................
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Upgrades.....................................................................
Changes from the Original:
-Improved resources
-Map description
-Other cosmectic changes
-Map name is still 9 Isles, not 9 Isles v.2   