Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion News

What if I argued that the best Halo game might actually be a strategy game? And a mod for a strategy game, at that? Sins of a Solar Empire is one of the best space RTS games you may never have heard of - mainly because its most recent iteration was released nearly a decade ago back in 2011, and there's been no sequel to speak of.

Sins of the Prophets is a Sins of a Solar Empire mod that's been in development for 12 years, since the early days of Sins of a Solar Empire. Last year the development team released the 'Warlords' 0.9 update, with a view to finally release Version 1.0 as soon as it was ready. It turns out they've decided to just make Sins of the Prophets 2 instead.

"Sins of the Prophets 2 is a sequel, but it's also us fulfilling a promise to deliver something greater than what has come before," the team said in a official announcement post. "Our prior releases have been built upon over a decade of legacy code, which has in some ways hampered performance across previous versions."

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• Double Elimination - If you lose twice, you’re out of the tournament.
  
• Winning Conditions - Either take out your opponent’s capital planet or have the highest number of planets by the end of the match.
  
• Match Length – 2 hours, if game has not ended in that time sudden death will commence for 30 minutes to determine a winner.
  
• Sudden Death - In the case of a tie, players are given 30 minutes. After those, team with the highest number of planets wins.
  
• Factions - Both players must have different factions. Your team’s factions must be DM’d to PheronPsycho on Discord. Your race must be locked the day before the match.
  
• Disqualification - Any form of stream sniping or cheating will lead to immediate disqualification and end of the match.
  

• A flair in the official Sins of a Solar Empire Discord server.
  
• A choice of one Stardock Steam keys (this can be for Sins of a Solar Empire or any other game or software we publish).
  

1. Own of a copy of Sins of Solar Empire: Rebellion on Steam (one will not be provided).
   
2. Apply online by going to this toornament link and enter your details.
   
3. Ensure you are on the Sins of a Solar Empire Discord server.
4. That’s it you’re signed up! Hurry up and wait to be called up.
   

Sins of a Solar Empire was a great entry strategy game for its time. Originally released in 2008, it combined the best of RTS games and 4X games to create a wonderfully ruthless space-based strategy experience where you had fleets of capital and sub-capital ships dancing around from system to system as you fought for dominance over randomised maps.

It was a flawed experience, but one the team at Ironclad Games attempted to iterate on through several expansions, such as Trinity, and then the 'definitive' edition of the game with 2012's Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. About the only true 'sin' of SOASE is that it never got a proper sequel, even after all this time. We're not sure what happened with the developers (who still seemed to be patching the game and releasing DLC), but at one point they got sued by Rebellion so, it's good that they're hanging in there at least.

One reason for the game's continued popularity is it's dedicated and competent mods community. There are some excellent mods for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, many of which have been ported to and from other games. Let's take a look at some of our favourite picks.

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RELATED LINKS:

Free Games - pick up Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion on Steam

After five years of development, Sins of a Galactic Empire's final version is now available

Sins of the Prophets turns Rebellion into a space-based Halo RTS