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+**Lilium Voyager** is a fork of [ioquake3](https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3) for running _Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force_ multiplayer. It is based on Thilo Schulz' [iostvef engine](http://thilo.kickchat.com/efport-progress/). The focus for Lilium Voyager is to maintain Elite Force multiplayer support on newer ioquake3 versions.
+
+Differences from iostvef 1.38;
+
+  * Better compatibility with newer operating systems (from ioq3).
+  * VoIP uses Opus codec instead of Speex (from ioq3).
+  * Player origin rounding is compatible with the original QVMs.
+  * Network compatible with iostvef 1.37.
+  * Support for ioquake3's OpenGL2 renderer.
+
+Lilium Voyager code commits: [compare/upstream...master](https://github.com/zturtleman/lilium-voyager/compare/upstream...master)
+
+The source code for the Elite Force game, cgame, and ui code is not included as it remains under a non-free license.
+
+
+## Compiling
+
+Lilium Voyager is compiled using `make`. For details see [building ioquake3](http://wiki.ioquake3.org/Building_ioquake3).
+
+The Visual Studio project files are not supported.
+
+
+## Discussion
+
+[Magical Clover Forum](https://forum.clover.moe). It supports creating an account or logging in using a GitHub account.
+
+
+## License
+
+Lilium Voyager is licensed under [the GNU GPLv2](COPYING.txt) (or at your option, any later version).
+
+
+## Credits
+
+* Quake 3 - id Software
+* ioquake3 - ioquake3 contributors
+* [iostvef](http://thilo.kickchat.com/efport-progress/) - Thilo Schulz & contributers
+* Lilium Voyager - Zack Middleton
+
+
+## Contributing
+
+Please submit all patches at the [Magical Clover Forum](https://forum.clover.moe)
+or as a GitHub pull request.
+