Welp, I can't believe I didn't try this mod for so long. The ships look great (and go very well with a few other known mods that do add some XIV variants: indeed I use all the ones you accounted for) and yeah, ok, it's memey, but the integration of the contacts and how they give you access to certain unique rewards is very well done. Even in its tongue in cheek weebness it does a lot to immerse the player more in the game. I wish more faction/expansion mods did it like this instead of just sprinkling around wrecks at procgen (or dumping everything into an HVB or two) and leaving it at that.
My only gripe is that I don't really like being commissioned/allied to the Hegemony, so that kind of makes me rush through the content to get what unique cool stuff I can so that I can be free again as soon as possible, but that absolutely cannot be considered a fault of the mod, it's just a choice and a matter of tastes. And it totally fits well in the game and makes sense, so that's really on me.
Kudos man, thanks: this is definitely going into my permanent modlist.
