Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy
A Space Navy dedicated to fighting the Thargoids and with an almost invisible presence in The Eight. This oxp amplifies the elements present in the Vanilla Game adding in occasional navy bases and ships.
Contents
[hide]Current status of HIMSN.oxp
=== Development plan === ==== Stage 1 - Eye Candy only ==== •Navy units from the core ship-set. done •Navy stations. (HQ and Outpost) done •Basic scripting and AI behaviour. done ==== Stage 2 - Thargoid Interaction ==== •War zones with the Thargoids •Capital ships done •Yearly Parade •Additional stations (Navy Shipyard and maybe some mission-related type of station) •Intelligence/Special Operations type ships (eg. production model of the Constrictor) •AI behaviour ==== Stage 3 - Missions ==== •Player Missions
The Lore
This is an example of lore derived from the game code. You will find no mention of Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy (HIMSN) in the literature which came with Classic Elite (the Manual or the novels The Dark Wheel & Imprint). But many of the various versions of Elite included missions - and for at least one of these, the player was instructed by Captain Curruthers of Her Majesty's Space Navy! And in our own Oolite, Captain Curruthers of Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy once again materialises to seduce the unwary player into deeds of derring do!
The problem
So what is Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy? All we know is that Curruthers is a Captain of it, and that he's joined there by a second Captain as well as an Agent in other missions!
- Is it a forerunner of the Duval Empire which exists in Frontier/Elite 2 (but is conspicuously absent in Elite & Oolite)?
- Is it another body hinted at in the original manual? The Galactic Co-operative is only one - although the largest - of several planetary federations, and maintains trade and diplomatic links with over 2000 planets spread throughout 8 galaxies. (p11)
- Is it GalCop's Galactic Navy?
- Is it something else?
After prolonged confabulation amongst the early savants of Oolite, a consensus was reached.
The solution
If you are interested in a prolonged argument analysing the relationship between HIMSN & Elite/Oolite lore, click here! ==>
Ships
(some of them)
- Classic X-ships
- Asp-X or Asp X - 2 pages!!
- Cobra2-X/Cobra2-C
- Sidewinder-X
- Komodo Carrier & Komodo lore
Original aims of HIMSN.oxp
Cody's Synopsis (based on quotes from the thread: Cody was involved in the HIMSN team):
*Hopefully, a barely perceptible Navy presence, with better graphics and a few missions along the lines of the native missions. *The idea is to create a more 'believable' Navy presence that sits more comfortably in the Ooniverse as many of us see it. The problem with GN is that it's too big. Based on canon and lore, the war against the Thargoids is played out mostly in InterGalactic space, and therefore you wouldn't expect to find a big naval presence in 'normal' space. There would not be navy ships all over the place (clogging up the spacelanes!) and the idea of numerous naval bases (SecComs) in each Galaxy also seems a bit silly. These stations also skew the game quite badly due to their market economics. Also, GN often focuses on pirates, and there is no justification for this within the game - that's what the GalCop Police are for. We are talking about an OXP which adds a much more discrete (and believable) naval presence, with a more appropriate range of ships. It may in time also offer missions similar to the two in-built missions involving HIMSN: small, covert special-ops type missions rather than the somewhat repetitive mass shoot-em-ups that GN offers. The Navy is there if you go looking. If you do your normal trading, mining and bounty hunting you will never see them. They do not, under any circumstances, meddle in internal system politics. So, you will not be attacked by the Navy if you are an offender or even a fugitive for that matter. That is a police matter.
This oxp was effectively sabotaged for almost a decade by the emergence of E:D (which seduced away both Gimi & then Pleb)!
License
- Authors: It was initially authored by Gimi, Pleb, Keeper, Smivs, Cody & Disembodied. (Also Storm?).
- After a decade (!) of languishing by the wayside, Tsoj & Cbr joined our community, completed the first stage and then published it on the in-game Expansions Manager.
- License: GPL v2+ & CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Download
- HIMSN 0.9 is now available from the in-game Expansions Manager.
- File:Himsn alpha test.oxz to Himsn_alpha_test.oxz for HIMSN (the top/latest version is the current "beta" alpha version).
- GitHub HIMSN development site (2021)
- Keeper republished some of his contributions here as NVSecurity.oxp.zip, in the hope that they would be used. His original contributions are prefixed with himsn.
Links
Lore
- Interview with Captain Curruthers
- See Tetiri Conclave (Region, Galaxy 5) & Tetiri
- There is an alternative lore of Her (non-Imperial) Majesty's Space Navy by Selezen (2006) based on synthesising Elite, Frontier & Oolite. This has nothing to do with this oxp. It is found here.
- •It is understood by this editor that the original lore on this wiki was mostly based on the work of Selezen.
- •When Matt634 started the development of the Galactic Navy.oxp, he also started weaving GN lore into relevant wiki pages and altering what was already there to present a seamless whole. Thus Selezen's work on Her Majesty's Space Navy was overwritten by descriptions of the Galactic Navy.
- •HIMSN has a quite different lore to either of the afore-mentioned. The current lore on HIMSN was mostly developed by Disembodied in conjunction with Cody et al. Whilst HIMSN and GN can probably exist side-by-side in your Ooniverse (HIMSN focused purely on fighting Thargoids, GN having a much much heavier presence and a much wider remit), you may well find their respective lores conflict! The editing of this editor attempts to present all views (in order to allow you, the reader, a choice). See Lore for more analysis of this.
- If you fly up close to a Behemoth battleship and sneak a peek (or peer into the entrails of the .oxp), you will find that the nameplates on the battleships contain the prefix INB - presumably for "Imperial Navy Behemoth" or somesuch. This is despite their co-option into the Galactic Navy oxp! Probably best to use Handwavium if you have both Behemoth & GN installed (maybe the initials stand for Indomitable Naval Battleship? Or something in Lobstoid?).
Related Downloads
- Cataclysm OXP (mission is broken)
- Classic X-ships
- Xeptatl's Sword a cameo appearance (mission is broken)
Other similar OXPs
- Galactic Navy: the alternative to HIMSN - large, pervasive presence, and unlike HIMSN, fights pirates too (oodles of ships, many of them massive, 14 sector bases in every galaxy, etc).
- 249th Naval Reserve Wing OXP: A naval reserve wing which you can volunteer for. Works with HIMSN rather than with the Galactic Navy (which has its own Naval Reserve units which you can volunteer for).
HIMSN Lore & Development
Gimi (an officer in the Royal Norwegian Navy!) became the first Imperial Manager back in 2012. Pleb took over in 2013.
- Selezen's Site
- Interview with Captain Curruthers (Dilbert, 2006)
- Fiction by Simon Challands: note that Her Majesty is not Imperial here!
- BB Thread of Selezen's post: Background story of the Elite universe (2006): Queen Isabell of Lave and Her Majesty's (non-Imperial) Space Navy
- BB Thread: Discussion (2008)
- BB Thread: Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy (2012-14, (with later bumps) 51 pages long!!)
- HIMSN p14 Smiv's summary of the relationship between the Galactic Navy & HIMSN
- HIMSN p18 Gimi's summary of the HIMSN project
- HIMSN p27 link (broken) to first test .oxp for HIMSN (first of half a dozen)
- HIMSN p32 Cim's second critique
- HIMSN p34 Norby's synopsis of previous good ideas in the thread
- HIMSN p50 Abandonment of HIMSN due to a leaky pipe forcing purchase of new computer and consequent loss of Pleb (the Imperial Project Manager) to E:D
- Material for potential "NVSecurity OXP" Keeper's transformation of his input to "NVSecurity OXP" (2017)
- Lave (Rough Guide) - see the bottom of the page for a cameo appearance.