X3:Reunion Manual - Steam

THE TERRAN RACEEarth only built two jump gates, all the others where built by a mysterious species called "TheOld Ones" In the year 2066 the Terrans of earth started sending terraforming ships out in tothe depths of space, which were later followed by self-replicating machine versions. Thoughsome years later the Terrans discontinued this practice, their attempts to cancel theTerraforming process failed and that resulted in the Terraformers becoming sentientmachines, to be later referred to as the Xenon.Sometime later these planet-reforming machines returned to Earth and tried to destroy it.Nathan R. Gunne led the machines through the Earth gate to what is now known asBrennan’s Triumph in the X universe and destroyed its gate, which led back to earth.THE TERRACORP COMPANYTerraCorp Headquarters,,this is the most important station belonging to the TerraCorpCompany, based in Home of Light. Parts of this facility are open to the public, although mostof the station is closed to personnel only. These include research facilities and companyoffices. A range of technology can be found here, and some rare devices that are only offeredby one particular race. Materials are often required and are bought by the TerraCorpCompany for a fair price. A small fleet of ships can usually be found nearby making thestation highly guarded. The station also incorporates state of the art recreation and commercefacilities, including Hotels, Sport Domes, Cinemas and Restaurants. Most races are welcomehere to trade.XENONToday throughout the X Universe there is no contact between the Xenon and any other race.The Xenon are not allied to any trading organisation or to either of the Guilds. They do notuse the Credit nor is it known what currency they use. They appear to have no interest ineither the technology or the trade of any other race.Despite many attempts to discover it, the location of the Xenon home planet is still unknown,so is the size of the territory that the Xenon control. Hence on most star maps possible Xenonsectors are indicated only by question marks. Not many ships dare venture into this territoryand unfortunately many brave enough to do so have never returned. Xenon ships are veryaggressive, their only directive is the policy - ”If it moves shoot it”. They are fast, wellprotected and heavily armed, and their engines give off a distinctive blue after-glow.92Xenon ShipsThe Xenon have also developed further still, unnoticedby all the other races. You will notice more and morenew ships and they seem to be better shielded andfaster too. The Xenon, if the robot psychologists are tobe believed, seem to be developing more of their ownself awareness, consciousness and their ownunderstanding. Whether this development is a step inthe right direction is still undecided, as the Xenoncontinue to attack first and don’t bother askingquestions after.A special undercover department, based at the Argon Federation Space Academy on ArgonPrime, has researched the Xenon for many years and is currently engaged in crossreferencing and documenting all positive Xenon ship sightings. There is some talk that,sometime in the future, they are planning to finance an undercover expedition, deep intoXenon territory in an attempt to locate the Xenon home planet.