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About The Savage Empire
The Savage Empire is the first installment in the Worlds of Ultima series,
a prequel to Martian Dreams. It uses the same engine as Ultima 6, but with new
graphics and increased interactivity. For the first time in Ultima, you can
be resourceful and create things from what nature
provides. You will also enjoy in-game cutscenes that
play part-way through the game, not just in the intro and endgame.
The plot
A whole lab containing the Avatar and a couple of modern-day friends is
swallowed by a black moongate when an experiment on the moonstone he got from
Britannia goes horribly wrong. The group ends up in a primitive jungle, and
befriends Aiela, princess of the Kurak tribe.
Darden the Huge, Aiela's hated suitor and prince of the Urali tribe, defeats
the Avatar, scatters his friends and captures Aiela. The Avatar is nursed
and aided by Intanya, shaman of the Kurak tribe.
It is up to the Avatar to find his friends, rescue Aiela and, ultimately,
unite the warring tribes against a common foe - the vicious Myrmidex intent
on destroying the surface dwellers as they destroyed their former masters,
the Kotl.
You can read other accounts of the Savage Empire
plot at:
This guide
The following is a site map for this Savage Empire Guide:
Other good Savage Empire sites
The following are some other good websites about The Savage Empire:
Documentation
The Savage Empire manual can be found:
The list of copy protection questions and answers can be found:
Pictures
There is a Savage Empire screenshot gallery at The Ultima Legend.
You will also find several pictures throughout this guide.
Music
You can download the Savage Empire music from:
Utilities
There are very few utilities relevant to The Savage Empire. These include:
- MDHack, which can be used to turn on the Alt cheats (see the Cheating section).
- Nuvie, which can read the game files and is planned to support The Savage Empire eventually but currently doesn't support it as well as it supports Ultima 6.
- u6like, a map viewer for U6, SE and MD. The files were never released, but you can see some of the maps it generated on the website.
- Ultimatrix, a map viewer for U1-6, SE and MD.
- DOSBOX, a DOS emulator you can use if The Savage Empire doesn't run on your operating system or if sound or music doesn't work.
- pu6e, a world editor for U6, SE and MD.
- The Universal Game Editor, a tool allowing you to boost your party member stats in all games except Ascension.
Acknowledgements
To give proper credit where credit is due:
- The Savage Empire Introduction was taken from the Savage Empire manual and remains property of Origin Systems, Inc.
- The Savage Empire Cheats were taken from a Cheatbook Database which came with a PCFormat magazine, whose author's name I cannot find.
- I can't remember who told me about the 'Eohippus' easter egg, so I'll at least admit it wasn't my idea. Whoever told me about it should contact me to get proper credit.
- Thanks goes to Natreg Dragon who informed me that Ugyuk is a potential companion, pointed out the existence of a high-quality PDF manual (see documentation section above), and told me about the second wisp near the Urali village.
- Thanks to Kenn Rice for allowing me to use his Savage Empire maps.
- The tileset was taken from the u6like site, with the permission of Bartlomiej Melnicki, its author. It was useful in obtaining a lot of the tile graphics that appear on this site.
- Another tileset extracted by Pieter Luteijn was also very useful.
- The easter egg about the three stooges is from Wikipedia's page about The Savage Empire.
- The item creation cheat is from Paulon Dragon's Savage Empire cheats [TXT] file.
- Thanks to Pieter Luteijn for providing the Savage Empire font [TXT].
© by Daniel D'Agostino 2002-2013
