the Eclipse was built by the Empire, a prized possession of the Emperor's. You hi-jack the Eclipse at the final fight of Kuat (in the video) in the Consortium campaign, and blow away Mon Calamari Cruisers and Imperial Star Destroyers. This is the only time Zann takes control of the Eclipse - he boards it to gather info on the Emperor's various bank accounts throughout the galaxy. Then Zann ditches the Eclipse since it's such a big target most likely to be destroyed. He got what he wanted.
The Eclipse SSD is a massive ship, bigger than Executor class ships. The superlaser mounted along along the lenght of the ship is "1/8" the power of the superlaser on the Death Star, able to burn continents in one hit. (Though, its much more accepted that it can simply crack planetary shields) Its a massive ship, able to withstand attacks from fleets.
The superlaser is also scripted to malfunction for a minute just before the three Star Destroyers and the Super Star Destroyer arrive, even though the canon ending is that the SSD is destroyed by the Eclipse's superlaser. I think if you let everyone aboard the SSD live long enough the superlaser will start working again and you can finish it off that way. Loved using the Consortium and the campaign, especially this bit, but it was disappointingly short.
I think you need Tyber, Urai Fen, Bossk, and IG-88 for the mission. Just bring those 4 to the planets surface to begin the mission. If they can't get to Bespin, you need to corrupt the neighboring star systems first to secure a transport route directly to Bespin.
One time I played this level, there was a glitch so the superlaser never went off-line so I destroyed the SSD within seconds of it arriving. It was quite funny!
The Executor is estimated to be 19 KM in length from back to front, imagine being at the bow and being ordered to take a message up to the bridge. The Elipse itself is apparantly 17.5KM long.
I love the ships from Star Wars, especially the huge ones like Executor and Ecllipse, but has anyone thought to making the Sovereign-class for this game??? Would love to see it.
Empire at war starts before episode 4 and ends just past episode 6 (except the rebellion campaign in the core game, where it ends at the end of episode 4) There are 4 SSDs total. The Executer goes down at the battle of endor. the lusjankya is still buried under coruscant at this point. the annilator is the one at the battle of kuat. the last one just sorta disaapeared.
Yeah, I remember that too. And the second Eclipse was hi-jacked by one little astromech droid and sent to crash with the Galaxy Gun. Sigh... it seems that the only reason why Rebels won the war was that GL wanted them to... so he could have more money through continuity...
@piratedude333 You get the eclipse briefly during the last level of Zaan Consortium campaign. There is a mod you can download though for Galactic Conquest and skirmish mode.
this is the final mission in the Corruption campaign in the expansion. get it. I garunte you'll fall in love with Tayber Zann's second in command Urai Fen. Stealth + melee combat capable of wiping out half a storm trooper squad in one swipe = total pwnage
@hybrinoid actually that's not the executor...it's another SSD (i forget the name or who commands it, i havent played the consortium campaign in so long lol)
this is the Second battle of Kuat, which is literally like 2 days after endor. and the imps aren't there to kill the eclipse, they're there to retake it. the rebels are there to destroy it
a ship designed to fire a piece of ordinance (can't remember what type though) into the sun of a system, causing the sun to implode and wipe an entire system clean of life. the only time that was used the captain (who was the only one on board because he stole it) killed his brother in the implosion. so yeah, it was never used again.
The Eclipse is supposed to jam the weapon when the SSD comes in but when I played the mission a second time through it still worked and then... ZAP! dead.
OMFG, it has the same power as it does in the comics, except the Empire is in control of it and it gets destroyed by getting sucked into a black hole or something, but Goddamn! 1 frikin' blast of that big thing and wipe out capitol ships! I'm making the expansion pack on my "want list" now.
Tyber Zann is so totally the Star Wars reincarnation of Sephiroth! And the Eclipse is his Masamune! Both the Empire and the Rebels shall fear him! Sure wish Disney would make Star Wars: Empire At War: Forces of Corruption canon again or do a remake of the game and make that canon. Or even a movie based on the game and make that canon!
now if the laser had splash damage :O now if the eclipse was built, the only way to deffeat it would get bombers and about 20 sqauds of them because the eclipse has over 2000 guns on it(not reall but alot) good vid
the empire shud take back the eclipse plans,decomission their entire star destroyer fleet and build an entire fleet of eclipse-class star destroyers and anniolate the consortion.
@piratedude333 SSD (not eclipse) you get in the empire conquest mode, tech lvl 5, it costs 150000 (i believe, it's a lot) and it's Darth Vader (get a big fleet for it, it's not so tough)
actual mission...and for when the ssd comes to play...the heavy laser of the eclipse fails...then you have to beat it when only your ships...but the mod i have for this would make it extreamly hard to fight the ssd...i would need a sizeable fleet...or 2...or 3...
i didnt se how much money you ahd but i bet i have more once i left it on fast forward for about an hour wile i watched TV and came back to 935,438 and had a very masive fleet about 36 viper sauads,28 skiprays,8 agressor class battle ships,6 vengiance class ships,tyberzan,IG88,4 gun boats,and 4 broad side cruesers,i got the broadside from a bribe and now i can make em!
"no, it's half the power of the first death star and can easily blow a planet apart." Its said to be able to sear entire continental landmasses, not able to blow up planets.
The eclipse doesn't have the power to destroy a planet like the death stars could, however, it's superlaser was capable of penetrating a planets crust and rendering that planet a volatile place in which in was impossible to live one. The only thing that could destroy the eclipse was a "force storm" which luke and leia took control of after commandeering it from the new palpaten (sp?).
Also, if you use tactics such as fighter attacks, you can delay the Aggressor long enough so that the Eclipse comes back online. Then just click the button and BAM! One less Super Star Destroyer >:)
the Eclipse was built by the Empire, a prized possession of the Emperor's. You hi-jack the Eclipse at the final fight of Kuat (in the video) in the Consortium campaign, and blow away Mon Calamari Cruisers and Imperial Star Destroyers.
This is the only time Zann takes control of the Eclipse - he boards it to gather info on the Emperor's various bank accounts throughout the galaxy. Then Zann ditches the Eclipse since it's such a big target most likely to be destroyed. He got what he wanted.
This the only time you can have 3 different teams on a map aside from skirmish.
I can see why you can't play with the Eclipse in any game mode other than the campaign mode. You'd win every battle you brought it to!
I love that mission.
One of the mods which features a fully functional Eclipse is Ultimate Empire a War.
The Eclipse SSD is a massive ship, bigger than Executor class ships.
The superlaser mounted along along the lenght of the ship is "1/8" the power of the superlaser on the Death Star, able to burn continents in one hit. (Though, its much more accepted that it can simply crack planetary shields)
Its a massive ship, able to withstand attacks from fleets.
man, you can't escape that superlaser. You don't even have time to begin evasive maneuvers. Incredible.
The superlaser is also scripted to malfunction for a minute just before the three Star Destroyers and the Super Star Destroyer arrive, even though the canon ending is that the SSD is destroyed by the Eclipse's superlaser.
I think if you let everyone aboard the SSD live long enough the superlaser will start working again and you can finish it off that way.
Loved using the Consortium and the campaign, especially this bit, but it was disappointingly short.
It's a shame that Sidious can't do the Foce Storm in the game... He destroyed an entire fleet with that move!
I think you need Tyber, Urai Fen, Bossk, and IG-88 for the mission. Just bring those 4 to the planets surface to begin the mission.
If they can't get to Bespin, you need to corrupt the neighboring star systems first to secure a transport route directly to Bespin.
One time I played this level, there was a glitch so the superlaser never went off-line so I destroyed the SSD within seconds of it arriving. It was quite funny!
The Music goes well, lol
Great work!
It´s about a dozen missions, if I remember correctly from the escape from Kessel up to the showdown over Kuat.
Nice vid... the music especially complements it very nicely... Good job.
The Executor is estimated to be 19 KM in length from back to front, imagine being at the bow and being ordered to take a message up to the bridge.
The Elipse itself is apparantly 17.5KM long.
Dude, this game is chock full of epic space battles, I'm even feeling nostalgic from watching this vid
i usually used the eclipse to fuck over the rebel capital ships until they jumped out to the system
Star Wars: Empire at War with the Forces of Corruption expansion.
"Also, why is the ssd seen as so powerful?"
"sd with a buncha guns n stuff."
You answered your own question :)
I bet Kuat is going to happy about the amount of damage done to his ship yard.
The Sovereign SSD is something you don't want to fuck around with, but the Annihilator is pretty badass too :D
Elipse-Strong against:everything
Weak against:Still researching....
I love the ships from Star Wars, especially the huge ones like Executor and Ecllipse, but has anyone thought to making the Sovereign-class for this game??? Would love to see it.
lol its like the death star, so big it just sits at the edge of the screen
There were several Executor-class Dreadnoughts. Several of them outlived the Empire.
Empire at war starts before episode 4 and ends just past episode 6 (except the rebellion campaign in the core game, where it ends at the end of episode 4) There are 4 SSDs total. The Executer goes down at the battle of endor. the lusjankya is still buried under coruscant at this point. the annilator is the one at the battle of kuat. the last one just sorta disaapeared.
The song is One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children.
Yeah.
Haha the Sephiroth theme fit well with this situation!
yeah i love how it shows a huge red button... love it
Yeah, I remember that too. And the second Eclipse was hi-jacked by one little astromech droid and sent to crash with the Galaxy Gun.
Sigh... it seems that the only reason why Rebels won the war was that GL wanted them to... so he could have more money through continuity...
The Eclipse confirms three facts about starships!
They can never be:
- too large
- too powerful
- too cool
@piratedude333 You get the eclipse briefly during the last level of Zaan Consortium campaign. There is a mod you can download though for Galactic Conquest and skirmish mode.
Zann Consortion kicks ass, you barely get attacked by either Empire or Aliiance
this is the final mission in the Corruption campaign in the expansion. get it. I garunte you'll fall in love with Tayber Zann's second in command Urai Fen. Stealth + melee combat capable of wiping out half a storm trooper squad in one swipe = total pwnage
hail before the power of the eclipse ssd
Bribing AT-ATs makes the mission very easy.I had five of them by the end.
I love this game, I love this song.
that. thing. is. HUGE!
Fleet admiral: All hands, prepare to.... 'sees the Eclipse blow up one of their star destroyers in one shot' RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!
I've never gotten to the level so now i know what to expect . :)
if the super star destroyer could talk, it would be like "hey man! stop fucking my place up! YOU ASS IS MINE!"
Perfect song for this :D.
@r2d2161 yes it was originally build for emperor palpatine
@hybrinoid actually that's not the executor...it's another SSD (i forget the name or who commands it, i havent played the consortium campaign in so long lol)
this is the Second battle of Kuat, which is literally like 2 days after endor. and the imps aren't there to kill the eclipse, they're there to retake it. the rebels are there to destroy it
In the words of Vader "NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!"
a ship designed to fire a piece of ordinance (can't remember what type though) into the sun of a system, causing the sun to implode and wipe an entire system clean of life. the only time that was used the captain (who was the only one on board because he stole it) killed his brother in the implosion. so yeah, it was never used again.
One of the reasons I love the Empire Strikes Back.
holy crap! its my theme song! ^^
forces of corruptions makes you play as 'pirates'
lol i remember how fast the ssd went down against my Battleships. It was like 15 seconds then BOOM!
And the construction of that ship wasn't even completed yet!
@ watermeller ok i just thought that what it was well it is at the end of episode III after he changes to Darth Vader
the Eclipse was originally from a Star Wars comic book about the cloned emperor named Dark Empire. I have it somewhere. awesome graphics
The Eclipse is supposed to jam the weapon when the SSD comes in but when I played the mission a second time through it still worked and then... ZAP!
dead.
jajaa la musica de final fantasy VII SEPHIROTH!! chevere el video!!
@wyoboy1 there is mod for it and a clone wars mod on empire at war filefront. Haven't tried them out yet but I hear their good.
executor crashes into the death star at the battle of endor, which is just before this battle. this is a different SSD
i really loved last mission in campaing. I used to go right into center of the battle, so it was a bit more intense.
this mission was a pain in the ass but is quite fun
the consortium is a very good faction.
it has powerful units and upgrades!
Shit, I mean resonnance torpedoes, that's the Sun Crusher ammo.
thats a lot of Tartan patrol cruisers!!!
OMFG, it has the same power as it does in the comics, except the Empire is in control of it and it gets destroyed by getting sucked into a black hole or something, but Goddamn! 1 frikin' blast of that big thing and wipe out capitol ships! I'm making the expansion pack on my "want list" now.
A bit overkill, no? lol. a superlaser on a tartan? lol. awesome video.
XD Sephiroth's theme music !
Tyber Zann is so totally the Star Wars reincarnation of Sephiroth! And the Eclipse is his Masamune! Both the Empire and the Rebels shall fear him!
Sure wish Disney would make Star Wars: Empire At War: Forces of Corruption canon again or do a remake of the game and make that canon. Or even a movie based on the game and make that canon!
now if the laser had splash damage :O now if the eclipse was built, the only way to deffeat it would get bombers and about 20 sqauds of them because the eclipse has over 2000 guns on it(not reall but alot) good vid
the empire shud take back the eclipse plans,decomission their entire star destroyer fleet and build an entire fleet of eclipse-class star destroyers and anniolate the consortion.
Look at all those poor ships getting blown apart.......
@hybrinoid you need the mod to build it in galactic conquest mode or skirmish
@DarthPern its sepiroth theme from final fantasy
...id love to have an eclipse of my own...!!!
@skoolier It's one-winged angel, its Sephiroth's Theme
@piratedude333 SSD (not eclipse) you get in the empire conquest mode, tech lvl 5, it costs 150000 (i believe, it's a lot) and it's Darth Vader (get a big fleet for it, it's not so tough)
That thing REALLY looks like Jerec's ship, the Vengeance, seen from the top
u can only get it in the final mission of the campaign but only thing it does is sit there and fire a superlaser
The Eclipse was only available for the last mission of the campaign.
The Eclipse is awesome
And after surviving many hundred shots, suddenly it gets hit by one big green beam and BOOM! All wasted.
I remember when I saw the size of that thing I was just like "holy......shit..."
actual mission...and for when the ssd comes to play...the heavy laser of the eclipse fails...then you have to beat it when only your ships...but the mod i have for this would make it extreamly hard to fight the ssd...i would need a sizeable fleet...or 2...or 3...
dooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm for alll wen the eclispe arives!!!
i meant you would still have a few hundered in the reeforcement bank. When one got destroyed send in a new one
Still the Imperium left, thats a massive ship.
FOR THE CONSORTIUM!
music is epic
well the game developers couldnt make it full sized because the map and things could only be so large at one time
@derhomer923 Not a mod, it's an exansion for EaW. It's an official product.
cloooose enough. i knew there was a force storm and i knew luke and leia were the ones who doomed him. twice actually.
i like eclipse so much its soooooooo cool!
God wants his Bicycle back
wow! rebels, empire everybody is there!
i didnt se how much money you ahd but i bet i have more
once i left it on fast forward for about an hour wile i watched TV and came back to 935,438
and had a very masive fleet about 36 viper sauads,28 skiprays,8 agressor class battle ships,6 vengiance class ships,tyberzan,IG88,4 gun boats,and 4 broad side cruesers,i got the broadside from a bribe and now i can make em!
yes, yes it does...
"no, it's half the power of the first death star and can easily blow a planet apart."
Its said to be able to sear entire continental landmasses, not able to blow up planets.
When you steal it is not yet built.
You have to buy the Forces of Corruption Expansion pack.
The eclipse doesn't have the power to destroy a planet like the death stars could, however, it's superlaser was capable of penetrating a planets crust and rendering that planet a volatile place in which in was impossible to live one. The only thing that could destroy the eclipse was a "force storm" which luke and leia took control of after commandeering it from the new palpaten (sp?).
Also, if you use tactics such as fighter attacks, you can delay the Aggressor long enough so that the Eclipse comes back online. Then just click the button and BAM! One less Super Star Destroyer >:)
awsome power