Mapname: Gaia3 - Shroud of Humankind

History: The desert and ocean lay silent and quiet after 2595 years of 
 shear terror that once roamed this planet. History fortold of the "Humans"
 and their certain extinction to come. As they built their machines of war
 and fueled the fire of their demise, creating unstoppable monsters of
 chaos, thus Arm and Core, the humans fled to the side of Arm fearing their
 doom. Flesh to metal, life to machinery, the humans seeked out their "Gods"
 to help stop the deadly process they initiated. Gaia3, humankind's last sole
 survivor or deity amongst the universal galactic war, dwelt here on Planet
 Gaia3. The Arm and Core realized the importance of Gaia3, not for its' paltry
 futile god, but for the secret that lies hidden deep within the Shroud of
 Humankind. What is this Shroud, you ask? The Shroud was the dying remains,
 a secret of the Humans, of Gaia3's existence. Somewhere beneath the blistered
 sands and oiled oceans of the war torn ancient planet, lies the relics of 
 hidden civilizations that the humans failed contact with to help save their 
 dead cause with Arm against the Core's overburdening power. These relics tell
 of mysterious alien "Insectoid" technologies, those that the humans created
 with the Arm, but never lived to see future variants. Many old data logs 
 foretold of planets full of living insectoids, not only those similar to the
 Arm spider, but living embryonic hives of metallic variations. The second piece
 of the puzzle lies with yet another unknown race...those of the mind variants, 
 those called the "Psioniks". Not much was known by the humans regarding this 
 race, but they did know that their minds controlled metal and all Arm and Core
 would be powerless to them.   

  The humans were overcome from the mind to machinery transformation over the time 
 scale of 4000 years, thus dying out. The Arm have succeeded in stopping the 
 overpowerment of Core, but not saving the humans, their creators. The battles
 raged past Gaia3 and onto 1000's of other worlds over time, until now. Gaia3 
 has become a prime target for Arm and Core, both have rushed staging parties to
 claim the lost forgotten relics of the 3 Shrouds of Humankind. The Core and Arm 
 have landed on the prime islands surrounding the Shroud, each staking claim to 
 the mysterious planet of Gaia3 - The Shroud of Humankind.
  
Weather: Sunny, with vast ocean seperating many isles and islands. North weilds 
 tall volcanos, South claims larger land mass and a little more resource. Medium
 winds, starting points balanced and with resources. Very light random meteor 
 showers expected from a shattered star in close sector, expect light or no damage.

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Mapsize: 35 x 15 (700 x 400)

Memory:  32Mb (Suggested P200+ and 64mb RAM)

Players: 2 - 10

Uncompressed: 11mbs

Made with: Annihilator v0.1.0 , TABuilder v0.9, Taz .8b

Made by: Blackthorn (ehester@cdc.net)

Look for my next map coming next week: JUNO REACTOR !!!
     (A brand new original Bryce2 tileset!)
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Installation:
 Make a subdirectory totala\Maps and extract the files into it.
 When selecting skirmish-maps, this map should be available. 


"Making a TA map is not as easy as it looks, especially a decent map."

