Discovered a few new things today while trawling through the files for the 0.62 release. Going to post them here for those who haven't found these little gems yet (along with some older stuff that's been in there for ages).
New faction - Church of Galactic RedemptionInspired by the martyrdom of a figure known as 'Ludd' during the fall of the Domain, the Church of Galactic Redemption is a hierarchical church with highly syncretic dogma formed from a core of Abrahamic texts and apocrypha along with Domain-era reaction against perceived corruption, depravity, hedonism, and transhuman abomination. The Church offers a vision of life lived more simply, of agrarian virtue and humanistic values and prayer against the violence and technological alienation that's torn the Sector apart in the years sinc the Fall.
New faction - Knights of LuddThe military branch of Luddic Church of Galactic Redemption, modeled on monastic warrior societies from previous millenia. In areas of Church domination they are authorized to enforce Technological Correctness as well as ensuring, through force, that virtue is promoted and vice chastised. In areas outside Church domination, when able, they covertly impose the same.
New faction - Luddic PathThe Luddic Path is a loosely associated category of radical, de-centralized, apocalyptic sects of Luddism that claim a truer interpretation of Ludd's Message. They view the Church as compromised and corrupt, putting worldly ego and pleasures before the Luddic Path in these end-times. The war of Armageddon is NOW and the lines are drawn -- it is only through forceful righteous action that the Good can be inspired to destroy Evil, that the abominations of humanity's hubris against God can be swept aside in a final act of redemption. Or so they claim; It should suffice to say that the Luddic Path finds itself at odds with nearly all other factions in the Sector.
All 3 of the above factions use this set of encounter dialogs:
"dialogue":{
"greetingFriendly":"Greetings fellow-walkers of the Path. Blessings of Ludd be upon you.",
"greetingNeutral":"Contact; Do not interfere in our righteous mission.",
"greetingHostileAggressive":"Submit, repent, and your sinful technologies will be smashed; Resist, and only God's holy vaccuum will show you mercy.",
"greetingHostileTimid":"We follow the Path of Ludd amidst persecution. Yea, the righteous will suffer the lash and our reward will be everlasting grace.",
}
New description - Sindrian DiktatConsidered by the Sector at large to be a military dictatorship, the Sindrian Diktat is a polity founded by force by Admiral P. Andrada formerly of the Hegemony Navy.
also a bit of amusing dialogue that doesn't seem to be in-game yet...
"lines":{
"greeting_aggressive":"Well, well. If we can do this the easy way, I promise we won't put holes in your lifeboats for sport. Unless some of the boys get trigger-happy, but with the space-fever, who can blame them?",
"threaten_success":"Yes, perhaps we'd better reconsider.",
"threaten_failure":"I'm trembling in my magnetic boots.",
}
Some illustrations that haven't been used (as far as I can tell so far):
Spoiler
desert moon ruins
harry
hull breach
quartermaster
vacuum colony
Cheers!