Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency

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Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency

Developer(s)	Cavedog Entertainment
Publisher(s)	GT Interactive
Designer(s)	Chris Taylor
Latest version	3.1
Release date(s)	March 20, 1998
Genre(s)	Real-time strategy (RTS)
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T)
Platform(s)	Windows
Media	CD-ROM
Input	Keyboard, Mouse

The Core Contingency is a 1998 expansion to the popular 1997 real-time strategy computer game Total Annihilation. It contains extra units and maps, as well as a campaign of 26 missions and a long-awaited map editor.

1 Story
2 Features
3 System requirements
4 Platforms
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Story

The Core Contingency picks up where the original game left off from the Arm ending, with the Arm achieving final victory over the Core in their Galactic War of over 4,000 years. With the Core seemingly wiped out of existence, the Arm undergo one-hundred years of reconstruction.

However, a lone Core Commander survives, hidden away in a distant system. The Core Commander is charged with a single mission: to search for a powerful and ancient alien artifact hidden in the area. With modifications, the artifact can be converted into an Implosion Device—a single, phenomenally powerful superweapon which, when activated, can cause the entire galaxy to implode into itself, purely in order to destroy the Arm. The Core Commander would stay inside the gigantic machine as it causes the galaxy to virtually self-destruct, then step out unscathed and rebuild the entire Core race.

Meanwhile, rumors circulate amongst the mending Arm over the said Contingency Plan, so an Arm Commander is dispatched along with sizable reinforcements to confirm or eliminate the gossip.

[edit] Features

The Core Contingency expansion features 25 new missions, with 12 for each of its campaigns. There is an Arm bonus mission named "Krogoth Encounter," set during the original game (and thus could technically be considered a "lost mission") during the Galactic War on the metallic world of Core Prime as the Arm was slowly making its way to domination. The level is available only at Hard difficulty and pits the player against experimental Krogoth Kbots.

The 75 new units the expansion pack comes with include seaplanes capable of landing underwater, aqueous metal deposits and structures (such as the floating "Naval-Series" heavy laser turrets and missile turrets), hovercraft, amphibious Kbots, pop-up turrets, and rapid-fire plasma cannons, among many others. It also, aside from its plethora of whole new worlds, has new natural disasters, mainly the unpredictable earthquakes of Temblor, a planet whose only habitable land lies on mountains high above clouds.

The expansion comes with 53 multi-player maps, featuring all-new environments such as lusch, slate, crystal, urban, and sea-coral. It also fixes various bugs and glitches in the original game.

[edit] System requirements

Minimum
- Pentium 100 MHz
- 32 MB RAM
- Windows 95
- VGA video card
- Sound Blaster-compatible sound card
- 4x CD-ROM drive
- 100 MB hard-disk space
Recommended
- Pentium 350 MHz
- 128 MB RAM