It is the 23rd Century and different races are just beginning
to discover warp drive, and explore and colonize the vastness of the
Final Frontier - Space. As per the events depicted in Star Trek -
First Contact, the BORG have arrived (not next to Earth thankfully)
but in this time-line the Enterprise-E does not go back in time to
save everyone from assimilation. A battle for domination in the Alpha
Quadrant then ensues.
Your Objective is to kill the BORG and Destroy the other two major
races. You need 5 objective points to win decisively. The game begins
in March 2200 and ends in June 2362. This is equivalent to 650 turns
of three months each.
There is a batchfile called ChooseRace which you must run
before starting the scenario. This will help you to get the right set
of events for race you are playing. The different sets of event files
serve only to enhance AI and will all seem the same to the human
player.
There is also an optional planetary screen, city.gif, which should
replace the same file in the main civ directory. Make sure you rename
the original city.gif (like to Ocity.gif) or move it to a safe place.
There is a stupid bug in the game engine which allows you to
take any advance the AI player has after the AI has agreed to trade a
specific advance with you. Do not choose any advance other than the
one offered - this is considered CHEATING and besides it will spoil
the game.
Do not rename any cities as some of them are required for events to occur.
Borg technology is not meant for the other races and any attempt to
acquire Borg specific technology may result in the acquiring race
being destroyed. Incidently if you have the Memory Prime (Great
Library) Wonder and another race is destroyed by their greed for Borg
tech, you will be destroyed as well.