to get to Malkor's building site before he can launch this devastating weapon. After a series of furious battles, the combined Rebel/Terran/Celareon fleet manages to break through the Mantis defenses, destroying Malkor's superweapon and Malkor along with it. The cost, however, has been high. Earth herself has been attacked, thousands of Terran warships and several colonies have been destroyed, and mankind's casualties alone rack up in the billions. Ver'Lak still lives, along with two more Warlords Mordalla and Thripid. Celareons themselves have disappeared shortly after victory, erasing all trace of their existence from Terran computers and networks, but the Terrans still left alive haven't forgotten about the Celareon's existence. Development Work on Conquest began shortly after the founding of Digital Anvil, with the intent that it be Digital Anvil's debut game. The project was initially headed by Erin Roberts, and Eric Peterson took over while at Digital Anvil, and then at Fever Pitch Studios. Reception Conquest: Frontier Wars received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The game won the awards such as IGN Editor's Choice and RTS of the Year. The game sold around 300,000 copies. Canceled sequel Conquest 2: Vyrium Uprising was announced in 2004 as successor to Conquest: Frontier Wars. The developer Warthog Texas (originally known as Fever Pitch Studios) was bought by Tiger Telematics and made to work on games for the ill-fated Gizmondo hand-held game console. The fate of Conquest 2 was unclear after Tiger's subsequent bankruptcy. In May 2012, the original developers resurfaced to form a Kickstarter campaign. Their aim was to crowdsource the development of the game, which they claimed was about 50% complete. The Kickstarter startup was cancelled on May 30, 2012. References External links Official webpage (2005 archived version) Conquest: Frontier Wars Ubisoft page 2001 video games Commercial video games with freely available source code Multiplayer and single-player video games Real-time strategy video games Science fiction video games Ubisoft games Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by James Hannigan Windows games Windows-only games