History VideoGame / RemnantsOfThePrecursors

''Remnants of the Precursors'' is a FanRemake of [[VideoGame/MasterOfOrion Master of Orion 1]], a space turn-based 4X game.

* DefenselessTransports: Averted. While your transports do not have any weaponry, they are not fragile at all. They receive the most advanced armor technology you have at launch.

* DeathRay: The Ancient Weapon of the Precursors. It is the only technology in the game that cannot be researched normally or received from an Artifact planet. To acquire it, you must defeat the Guardian (who uses this type of weapon) first. It fires one powerful beam that can deal up to 1000 points of damage to a single ship, which makes it [[AwesomeButImpractical]], as that wouldn't be that effective against a fleet of hundreds, or thousands of [[SpaceFighter fighters]].

* ArtificialBrilliance: The AI

The creator and programmer is Ray Fowler, a retired programmer, who, tired of waiting for a company to remake the game, decided to do it himself with his own money. So far, he has paid more than 40 thousand dollars for all new artwork, lore, UI design, music and other things.

* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: Can potentially happen if you meet a race that is bad at a technology field your race is good in.
* AntiArmor: Stream Projector technology is meant to be used against heavily armored ships.
* ArtificialBrilliance: The AI is much more advanced than the original Master of Orion and on Normal difficulty is playing exactly the same game as the player without any cheating or reduced costs whatsoever but is still able to provide a challenge.
* ArtificialStupidity: The AI is still not that smart and often makes very bad decisions.

* BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything: Biological weaponry exists and is a viable option, even if it is somewhat of a mixed bag. On one hand, it eliminates hostile population units without harming useful factories. On the other, unlike planetary shields, antidotes that counteract bioweapons are passive bonuses, so even newly founded colonies will get them. There is also the fact that most races hate them, which, if you already have bad relations with them, can theoretically cause war.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Silicoid race has one. Their bizarre biology means they can ignore any and all ecological concerns but they breed at half the normal rate. This also means they flat-out cannot use certain planetology breakthroughs.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Psilon architecture. Apparently the first sketches were based on the Literature/{{the Emerald City|OfOz}}.
* CulturedBadass: The Bulrathi philosopher-king, both strong and wise according to the lore.
* DeathRay: The actual name of the most advanced weapon in the game. The Death Ray is the only technology in the game that cannot be researched normally or received from an Artifact planet, you must defeat the Guardian (who uses this type of weapon) first. It is not always good to use since it fires one incredibly powerful burst that can deal up to 1000 points of damage to a single ship. Which will not help you at all if you are facing a swarm of several hundred or thousand [[SpaceFighter fighters]].
* DefenselessTransports: Played with, your transports do not have any weaponry, but they automatically use the most advanced armor technology you have, which can protect them from incoming enemy damage.
* DeflectorShields: You can equip them on your ships as well as on your troops. Ship-based shields apply a flat minus to all damage hitting the ship. If the amount of damage inflicted is less than or is equal to the class of the shield it is considered deflected.

* EnemyExchangeProgram: Completely and absolutely averted. Complete genocide and removing an empire are the same things in this game as all population units are considered soldiers and all enemy ships will always be hostile to you if they can.

* FinalSolution: Removing an empire and a race are essentially the same things. Ground combat will continue until one side is completely exterminated and a planet is considered owned by the enemy as long as there are their population units on it.

* HumansAreBastards: Happens from your perspective if the Humans betray or conquer you.

* InstantWinCondition: The Galactic Council if you have turned off rebellions.

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: There are only two non-energy space weapons but they are both quite good, halving shields and, in the case of the 'Gauss Autocannon', both halves shields and fires four times like the 'Gatling Gun'.

* MassiveRaceSelection: There are 10 races to choose from in the game, all being masters of a particular gameplay element. The MOD adds 6 new races to the game, mostly reskins of existing ones visually but with different gameplay mechanics.

* MechanicalLifeforms: The Meklar are born as organic beings but are then uploaded into robotic bodies.

* NewTechIsNotCheap: Research points that are used to get technologies can only be acquired by spending BC in the research category. Often the cost of technologies eclipses everything else in the game.

* BearsAreBadNews: The Bulrathi are unquestionably the best in ground combat and their colonies should be thoroughly bombarded until only a few population units remain, and even then they might just win.

* CatPeople: The Mrrshan, somewhat. They are based on felines in general.

* SiliconBasedLife: The Silicoids.

* SingleBiomePlanet: Played straight in images for planets but averted in descriptions and the rotating graphics.

* SpaceFighter: A way to build ships which is very vulnerable to pulsar technologies, though to be fair, other ways of building ships are vulnerable to other technologies as well.

* StealthInSpace: Played with. The Cloaking Device makes ships disappear on the galaxy map, but in a space battle, the cloaked vessel can be seen very well. Targeting it if

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Erratic leaders have an approximately 2% chance to declare war every single turn, regardless of any other factors, like for instance, the possibility that your empire may be 10 times bigger than them and is capable of obliterating their entire starfleet with next to no effort.

* TechLevels: Each technology field has 50 levels (excluding future technologies). On those levels are different technologies. At the start of each game, 50% (or 30% if you are Psilon) of almost all technologies are removed from your tech tree. You will have to either make do with the ones you have, or negotiate or otherwise acquire the ones you don't from other races.

* UndergroundCity: Most Silicoids live underground.

* WeWillUseLasersInTheFuture: The vast majority of the weapons are energy-based, with only 2 exceptions.

* ZergRush: The Sakkra, who breed very fast, are encouraged to do this, drowning their opponents with bodies.

''Remnants of the Precursors'' is a [[FanRemake Fan Remake]] of [[VideoGame/MasterOfOrion Master of Orion 1]], a space turn-based 4X game.

Long ago there were two {{Precursor}} races. [[GreatOffscreenWar War is inevitable, and they wiped each other out, the details lost to time...]]
What is more relevant to leaders of fledgling interstellar empires like yours is the fact that those two races have left [[AncientArtifact Artifacts]] on various worlds and one race's homeworld, going by the name of Orion, remains mostly intact, an incredible world full of [[LostTechnology Lost Technologies]].

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Psilon architecture. Apparently the first sketches were based on the [[Literature/TheEmeraldCityOfOz Emerald City]].

* {{Terraforming}}: There are two types of terraforming:

Long ago there were two [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Precursors Precursor]] races. [[GreatOffscreenWar War is inevitable, and they wiped each other out, the details lost to time...]]

* Precursors: Part of the backstory. There were once two precursor races, they fought a big war and both left nothing but ruins and one of them, a Guardian in this galaxy.

* Terraforming: There are two types of terraforming:

* AllSwordsAreTheSame:

* DefenselessTransports: Averted, your transports automatically use the most advanced armor technology you have.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Erratic leaders have an approximately 2% chance to declare war every single turn, regardless of any other factors, like for instance, the possibility that your empire may be 10 times bigger than them and is capable of obliterating their entire starfleet in one shot.

* TechTree: More like a tech ladder. Each technology field has 50 levels (excluding future technologies). On those levels are different technologies. At the start of each game, 50% (or 30% if you are Psilon) of almost all technologies are removed from your tech tree. You will have to either make do with the ones you have, or negotiate or otherwise acquire the ones you don't from other races.

* AllSwordsAreTheSame:

* DeflectorShields: You can equip them on your ships. Shields apply a flat minus to all damage hitting the ship. If the amount of damage inflicted is less than or is equal to the class of the shield it is considered deflected.

* EnemyExchangeProgram: Completely and absolutely averted. Complete genocide and removing an empire are the same things in this game as all population units are considered soldiers and all enemy ships will always be hostile to you in most circumstances if they can.

* TechTree: More like a tech ladder. Each technology field has 50 levels (excluding future technologies). On those levels are different technologies. At the start of each game, 50% (or 70% if you are Psilon) of almost all technologies are removed from your tech tree. You will have to either make do with the ones you have, or negotiate or otherwise acquire the ones you don't from other races.

** There used to be several other mods that changed text, music and images but they were taken offline for unknown reasons.

* NewTechIsNotCheap: 'RPs' (research points) that are used to get technologies can only be acquired by spending BC in the research category. Often the cost of technologies eclipses everything else in the game.

* NewTechIsNotCheap: RPs (research points) that are used to get technologies can only be acquired by spending BC in the research category. Often the cost of technologies eclipses everything else in the game.

* SpaceFighters: A way to build ships which is very vulnerable to pulsar technologies, though to be fair, other ways of building ships are vulnerable to other technologies as well.

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* PortalNetwork: You can build one in the late-game if you have the Stargate technology.

* MassiveRaceSelection: There are 10 races to choose from in the game, all being masters of a particular gameplay element. The MOD adds 6 new races to the game, mostly reskins of existing ones but with different gameplay mechanics.

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* TheGreys: Psilons are somewhat based on them, being largely grey, thin and smart.

* FasterThanLightTravel: Averted at first as during the very beginning of the game your ships travel at light-speed but this trope will happen as soon as you get your second engine technology.

* EnemyExchangeProgram: Completely and absolutely averted. Complete genocide and removing an empire are the same things in this game as all population units are considered soldiers and all enemy ships will always be hostile to you during war if they can.

* DeathRay: The actual name of the most advanced weapon in the game. The Death Ray is the only technology in the game that cannot be researched normally or received from an Artifact planet, you must defeat the Guardian (who uses this type of weapon) first. It is not always good to use since it fires one incredibly powerful burst that can deal up to 1000 points of damage to a single ship. Which will not help you at all if you are facing a swarm of several hundred or thousand [[SpaceFighter fighter ships]].

* BoringButPractical: A way you can design your ships. While it is possible to add such things as [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Hole Generators]], Ionic Pulsars and [[InvisibilityCloak Cloaking Devices]] to your ships later in the game, you can absolutely win without them.

* BoringButPractical: A way you can design your ships. While it is possible to add such things as [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Hole Generators]], Ionic Pulsars and [[InvisibilityCloak Cloaking Devices]] to your ships later in the game, you can also build ships without them and still win.

However, Orion is guarded by the Guardian, an incredibly advanced ancient war machine that will fire it's incredibly powerful weaponry on whatever interloper dares enter the star system.