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          |Federation Akira Class Heavy Cruiser v1.1|
          |              by k_merse           	    |
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PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTALLATION STEP BY STEP? OT YOUR SHIPS MIGHT WON'T WORK? OT THE GAME MIGHT CRASH!

1. Open your Star Trek Armada II directory (default: C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II).

2. Put fcruise1.sod in your Star Trek Armada II\SOD directory Overwrite file, when asks.

3. Put
ak1_glow.tga 
ak2_glow.tga 
ak3_glow.tga 
ak4_glow.tga 
ak5_glow.tga 
gbfcruise1.tga
wffcruise1.tga
in your Star Trek Armada II\Textures\RGB directory. Overwrite files, when asks.

4. Put fcruise1.odf in your Star Trek Armada II\odf\ships directory. Overwrite file, when asks.

5. Put your fcruise1.bmp in your Star Trek Armada II\ bitmaps/AdmiralsLog/ShipImages directory. Overwrite file, when asks.

6. Now the tricky part. Open gui_global.spr from your Star Trek Armada II\sprites directory. I suggest to use Wordpad to open it. Search for the following rows:

# Federation wireframes
@reference=256

7. Insert the following rows between the tw rows:

@reference=128

fcruise1w1		wffcruise1	0	0	128	128

8. If you're lucky, it will look like this:

# Federation wireframes

@reference=128

fcruise1w1		wffcruise1	0	0	128	128

@reference=256

9. This file might be write-protected. Close it without saving, right click on the file, choose Properties, and uncheck Read-only at the lower part of the panel. Click OK and repeat steps 6-8.


You installed k_merse's Akira Class successfully!
If you have any problem, feel free to contact me, or look at www.starbase34.net for additional help!