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[K-64]

Alright, this mod isn't a replacement, cancellation or otherwise delaying of the MassFarer mod, for those that were getting worried . Rather, it is a side-project that I'm doing to improve my spriting and general modding skills, in between MassFarer releases. That said, neither project I am doing alone, and my thanks goes out to all of those who have helped and provided feedback to these mods. Yes, this mod will largely be a frankensprite mod

Right then...

About the Trade Scavengers

The Trade Scavengers history begins with the city world of Roche III, better known as Avarice. It was a rare planet, being a border world yet fully metropolised, and such had a flourishing economy, albeit with less regulation on goods than the core worlds. Crime was always a problem on this world, theft, murder, drugs, you name it. With such issues plaguing such a honeypot, the Hegemony moved in extra fleets, marines and materiel to reign in these malcontents.
The strategy worked to an extent, however this crackdown stymied the traders' profits with reams of red tape, many of the smaller outfits had to outright quit the trade. Those that could see that they were going the same way began to lobby to the Hegemony to ease up on the regulations, to allow them to buy and sell goods directly, not through a government system. These pleas went unanswered, so they found likeminded traders and decided to take matters into their own hands.
That year saw many of the great foundries of the world closing due to "bankrupcy", the truth was much more dire for the Hegemony. The traders had managed to seize the industrial centre of Avarice and were using these facilities to make their own ships into combat capable versions. Cannibalising and retrofitting massively, the ships didn't look nice, and they certainly didn't perform to the levels of dedicated warships but that's not to say they didn't succeed in their coup of the Roche system.

Completely overwhelming defences, the traders decimated the Hegemony garrison fleet and took the system as their own, and have begun spreading out to nearby systems. Corvus is one such system...

Fleet Capabilities

Right, that's the lore of them, now for the real. Their fleets are comprised of several low tech and commercial vessels chopped and welded together with guns strapped on top. They especially favour ballistics and missiles as converting cargo space to ammo piles is easier than making them generators for energy weapons. Generally the ships are more fragile as well though they pack more larger weapons, in hopes that overbearing firepower is enough to remove the threats.

Ships

Strike Craft

Barracuda	Razor	Roach	Beetle	Viper

Corvettes

Artemis

Frigates

Crawler	Overthrust Lasher	Scorpion	Xanadu

Destroyers

Einherjar	Eviscerator	Bison	Yak

Cruisers

Valhalla	Ostrich	Subjugation (Left variant, right not pictured)	Apollo

Capital Ships

Genesis	Hades	Hercules	Asphodel	Hermes	Vanguard

Extra thanks goes out to Upgradecap for getting the campaign working with the new ships and faction. Also to be thanked is Zajadu, who assisted greatly with the Hades sprite

Download:

Version 0.1, released 06/04/2012: Download - Outdated
Version 0.3, released 08/04/2012: Download - Outdated
Version 0.5, released 11/4/2012: Download - Outdated
Version 0.7, released 04/08/2012: Download - Outdated
Version 0.8, released 09/11/2012: Download

The Second Era of the Scavengers


Feedback and suggestions are always welcome.

And as a last note, anyone who has commercial ships that they would like to see chopped up and weaponised, I can feature them in future versions of this. You will be fully credited and thanked for the work. If you do, please include a ship_data csv record thing, so that I can tweak the stats based on what it's like

[Upgradecap]

Good thing you got it up So fast , did you do any Changes to the faction?

Because all those ships arent in campaign, the einherjar isint, for example. Did you remember to put it in?

[K-64]

Just a few tweaks of ship spawn and station ship stocks, to reflect their tech level. Probably should've found out how to tweak the goods though . Also changed a few of the announcements to sound a little better in the lore, other than that, pretty much how you had it.

Oh yeah, tweaked the colour a wee bit too.

Though you still did all of the hard stuff, so thanks

[cp252]

...Those ridiculous Atlas variants sold me.

[Uomoz]

This is a challenge to see who has the longest... ship.

[maffo]

looks good, nice lore, i hope craft omega adds it to the minimash

[Trylobot]

It's not long enough for me

[maffo]

@trylobot

i dare you to make a bigger one then

[Lord Leoric of Wercheg]

Looks like there's something wrong with the spawn script. I have five Trade stations orbiting Fenris and enough Traders to blockade the Pirate world.

[K-64]

That's strange. Just tested it again myself, and only the one station spawns

[Upgradecap]

Looks like there's something wrong with the spawn script. I have five Trade stations orbiting Fenris and enough Traders to blockade the Pirate world.

Heh. The script is supposed to be failsafe against those kind of errors, I checked the code myself to prevent that from happening.
re you sure you didn't messag around with their convoys after spawning or something?

[K-64]

Hmm, it appears that the Razors don't act as they should, I'll have to try and fix that one for the next release. Anyone else having the issue that they don't go into formation, and stack on top of each other instead?

[Upgradecap]

Hmm, it appears that the Razors don't act as they should, I'll have to try and fix that one for the next release. Anyone else having the issue that they don't go into formation, and stack on top of each other instead?

Yeah, I had that error, but I thought you set them like that.

[K-64]

Nah, I wanted them to be exactly like Talons, except slightly heavier

[Upgradecap]

Oh, and are you sure the einherjar is in the game?