Hello and welcome to the forums! Glad to hear you found this game.
Dat encyclopedia is helpful indeed. Clay wasn’t kidding when he said, “If there’s anything you need to know, this is the console to visit.” Before I got the game running correctly (meaning at all) on my old black laptop ten years ago, I used to open the encyclopedia in Internet Explorer and peruse it for hours. I have to say, the game would have been a lot duller without it, because somehow that information enhances the realistic feel of the game.
Feel free to blow the dust here anytime you need a question answered. I would have answered this one within minutes, but I forgot to have the tab open the last couple of days.
–IronDuke
I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 