Ixian Ships
Ix was the ninth planet in the star system Alkalurops in the Dune universe. The Ixian economy depended on manufacturing complex machinery, which sometimes flouts the moral-juridical proscriptions of the Butlerian Jihad. The inhabitants of Ix were known collectively as the Ixians.
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Ixian Ships OXP
Author 8bitapocalypse
This oxp adds 4 ships from Dune to the Ooniverse:
 Ixian Battle Cruiser |
 Ixian Bezerka |
 Ixian Gunship |
 Ixian No-Ship Mark I |
Of these four, the Ixian Noship Mark and the Ixian Gunship can be bought by the player.
The Ixian ships will mainly patrol in the less populated systems.
Minimum requirement Oolite 1.47
(release date version 1.1, March 2009)
Ix and the Ixians
History
It is implied that the Ixians' origin might have been some Asian culture of Old Earth, likely Chinese. The planet's name originated with a misinterpretation of the Roman numeral IX (9).
Ix, along with Richese, escaped the more severe effects of the Butlerian Jihad, leading to it being classed as supreme in machine culture.
The planet formed an Ixian Confederacy when Paul Atreides took the Golden Lion Throne and became Emperor of the Known Universe in 10196 AG. Ix offered submission to House Atreides in 10208 AG in exchange for a legal limit to Paul's Imperial tax, claiming that they wanted a constitution, with the Landsraad or CHOAM governing Paul. Paul forbade a constitution, claiming it would be detrimental to his people. This became an Order in Council and Paul decreed that the Guild, if they wanted his signature for the Tupile Treaty, was to stop all trade from Ix until the Confederacy agreed to the tax. Without the Guild's transport, the Ixians eventually submitted.
Early on in the reign of the God Emperor, Leto Atreides II, the Ixians, spreading their machine-based civilization, the Ixians developed an economic technological federation with a center named the Ixian Core. Later on they began to no longer followed the orders of the Butlerian Jihad; in secret, they produced outright computers again.
In the last centuries of the God Emperor's reign, they invented the no-field, which allowed them to grow Hwi Noree, who was bred in a no-room to heavily impact upon Leto's emotions and disrupt his Golden Path. Meanwhile, they worked with the Spacing Guild to develop a mechanical subtitute for the Guild Navigators' predictive talents.[5] The Guild-Ix project succeeded a few decades after the God Emperor's death with the development of the first generation of Ixian Navigation Machines, which broke the Spacing Guild’s monopoly over spaceflight.
During the Famine Times, the Ixians rose up to become a major power in the Known Universe. The Ixians were the first to invent and manufacture no-ships. Along with being guided by the new Navigation Machines, these vessels had the additional advantage of being far cheaper than traditional space ships. It was the development of this cheaper form of space travel which fueled the Scattering.
By the time of the arrival of the Honored Matres in the Old Imperium, the power of the Ixians was at its apex, due to their alliance with the Fish Speakers, but the analysists of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood saw them as a failing power, as Ixian society had become a bureaucracy, with no great inventions coming out of the workshops of Ix for centuries. When the Honored Matres conquered the Old Empire, the Ixians were reduced to being a barely tolerated technological combine.
Ixian Freighter OXP
Author 8bitapocalypse
This oxp adds a further civilian freighter to the universe.
 Ixian Freighter Mark I |
Download Links
Download Ixian Military Ships
Download Ixian Freighter. Alternate link on capnhack.com here
Installing and Playing
To play the OXP, unzip the download file. This will create a folder named "Ixian xxx". Open this folder and you will see a folder named "Ixian xxx.oxp" and a readme. Move the Ixian xxx.oxp folder to AddOns. As with all OXPs, its the folder ending .oxp that you need to put in Oolite's AddOns folder, otherwise Oolite will not read it.
Links
- The original thread was presumably lost in the Great Deletion
- Dune Wiki (Source of the history above)
