"The Hazard Mining Company doesn't run on supplies - that'd be too expensive, too inconvienient. Instead, it's run on meat, on the poor unfortunates that get in it's way and the lost souls decieved by profits and advancement until it's too late." ~ Folly of Greed, Jebidiah ExaltedMany cycles ago, a daring space miner called Haseo 'Hazard' Fuyutsuki set out into the Outer Rim to make his fortune with nothing by a Shepherd, some loose change and a dream. Today, the Company he founded holds an iron grip beyond the Core Worlds, always seeking more profit. Made up of adventurers, freebooters and mercenaries, Hazard Mining Incorporated is well known as a company where anyone can make their fortune. It is also well known for being unethical in the acquisition of goods, luxuries and technology from the Outer Rim colonies. The Luddic Church often demands the destruction of this 'Soulless Machine', and other established factions are rendered nervous by the accusations of briganditry, banditry, protection racketeering, and possibly even genocide. But while the Company continues to churn out absurdedly high profits and an endless supply of raw goods, the major factions remain placated...for now...
Hazard Mining Incorporated holds tenuous dominion over four systems, and an iron grip on a fifth, beyond space claimed by Luddic Church. These systems are filled to the brim with pirates, luddites, and dangers unheard of in the Core Systems. It is heavily advised that anyone seeking high adventure or lucrative trading opportunities there be well-equipped and ready for anything - not even the expensive protections offered by the Company can guarantee your safety there. However, if one can survive the gauntlet of horrors, insane profits can be made trading with the more difficult to reach colonies of the HMI.
The Company is well reknowned for their Junker ships. These vessels are cheap, efficient but fair poorly in combat. Their key advantage is that they are nigh impossible to completely destroy, with lost hulls being put back together in more efficient ways.
With increasing number of d-mods on these ships, there is an increase in the number of Ordinance Points up to 4 d-mods.Another known feature of Hazard Mining Incorporated is their library of unusual technologies acquired from the dark recesses of space. These designs are often incomplete; but Hazard Mining, not wanting to sell these on or spend the time to fix them, instead hack the LPC of the ship to produce something functional. These Techmined Hulls have unusual features and can be incredibly powerful, but suffer from key drawbacks in long engagements and can be problematic to handle logisitically.
Techmined Hulls are powerful, however they lose Combat Readiness twice as fast after their Peak Time has expired, repair 50% slower out of combat, and take 50% more damage from storms and coronas.Further, several hulls have entered circulation in other factions as a result of HMI activity, including some rare ones not seen here:
Possibly due to rampant Company harvesting of systems infested with [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], there appears to be new hulls observed in these [REDACTED] fleets, along with rare and unusual [REDACTED] hulls:
In addition to the seemingly endless supply of raw materials, unique and rare commodities from beyond the Core Worlds are also produced by the HMI. Many are considered illegal by the established factions, but they still remain in high demand:
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Due to the original mod becoming too large, I split the mod up into three seperate mods. Below you can find the two 'sub' mods of HMI; these mods can be downlaoded and used independantly of HMI and each other.The Brighton FederationA collection of refugees from some terrible disaster, the Brighton Federation is a desperate polity. Given their location, and how they lie firmly beneath the attention of the other major powers as a weakling polity without access to great resources, the Brighton Federation relies heavily on hulls scavanged from Remnants and Derelicts, and converted into crewable vessels. These vessels are somewhat poorer in quality than expected, but mass well.
In addition to these scavanged hulls, Brighton also uses the hulls to recreate base-blueprint hulls from the main core systems. These ships suffer terrible drawbacks to everything from armour to hull, but are much cheaper to run and pack a significantly greater missile complement than their well-constructed cousins.
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The Draco Group, aristocratic and cold, harvest populations to imbibe their blood in their hedonistic rituals, reaving on high-tech derivatives of midline ships from the system of Prester John. The Fang Society, animalistic and vicious, prey on defenseless peoples to consume, eat and torture, roaming the sector from deranged, Orion-Device modified vessels. Often destroying these ships leave behind grim cargoes that the enterprising and amoral captain can sell later on for profit.
While their hatred for the Sector is well known, their loathing for each other is even greater. It is for this reason that their impact on the Sector at large is relatively minor, as they are more content to butcher each other.
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This is my third 'faction' so to speak. It has since morphed from a small modification to an altogether hungrier beast. This beast became so bloated that I split it up into three more mods, which are independantly useable in their own right.
All the secret, hidden content remains in the main HMI mod, and to find it you'll have to read the clues and figure things out rather than find a guy to give you the quest - largely because coding a quest is beyond my capabilities. This mod pack contains a now unique 'Junker' faction, five mini-boss factions, an optional Scavanged Derelict/Remnant faction, and four hidden systems for you to stumble upon in your adventures. This mod is inspired by ORA, Metellson and the idea of a player-created space empire based on conquered pirate markets. Hopefully this will be an interesting addition to any game, however be forewarned that some people take issue to some of the more...unusual content added by this mod. Please let me know if I've done anything hilariously wrong. I will also rename the Scarecrow if the Obscene Mod Nevermore is ever made into an IBB.
Credits:
Dark.Revenant, Histidine and Alex for coding help - this mod could not be done without these brilliant people
Mesotronik, AxleMC, Tartifletee, HELMUT, Azmond and the Discord Server for inspiration, spriting help and refinement (and in the case of Meso, Sounds).
Gen Waffle, Avanitia, Nia and HELMUT for doing an outrageous amount of playtesting - very much appreciated!If you feel like giving me a tip - please don't. Instead, please direct any donations to the Mesotronik Charity Drive. The guy needs it a heckovalot more than I do, and he's in a really bad situation at the moment. Anything you can give helps.
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