The the sod and tga's I found on the internet so I take no credit for them.
I came up with the odf and modifications to the tech tree and sprite files.
To install extract files and place the sod files in the sod folder, the tga
files in the RGB folder in the textures folder, the odf in the stations folder
in the odf folder, add these lines to the gui global file

@reference=128
ds9w1 ds9w 40 0 40 40
ds9w2 ds9w 0 40 40 40
ds9w3 ds9w 40 40 40 40
ds9w4 ds9w 80 0 40 40
ds9w5 ds9w 0 0 40 40

@reference=64
b_ds9 gbds9 0 0 64 64

alter the tech1 file by ading a line refering to ds9.odf it should look similar to this
ds9.odf 2 cbase.odf cresear.odf

This was originally for Armada 1 but they work just fine in Armada 2.
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