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Author Topic: The Ousters nomadic playstyle. and the Book Hyperion.  (Read 883 times)

Noviastar

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The Ousters nomadic playstyle. and the Book Hyperion.
« on: October 20, 2021, 04:49:56 PM »

OK so I just finished the First book in the Hyperion Cantos. 

Now I am inspired to try and play through the game as a Ouster fleet.  They raid worlds in the book but mostly live in space.  Not setting up permanent colonies.  They use asteroids and other  Space junks as mobile cities.  BUT they are not low tech.  Often they are higher tech than the Hegemony.  They just don't use far-caster gates and they shun AI cores.

SOOO!  a mod list to play as the Ousters starts with.
Supply Foraging
Fuel Siphoning
Asteroid ship pack
More hull mods
Star ship Legends

Im asking is there mods that lets one reoccupy or rebuild lonely orbital installations?  Like mining and siphon stations.  As the Ousters live mostly in space.  stopping by a manned mining station for metals or using a mining station or others for gathering or processing raw resources would be awesome.

Any other ideas for making a sorta self contained fleet would be cool.  Like a Tree ship or Flying garden that lowers supply costs.  Keeping extra crew is stasis(fugue).  Or asteroid mining maybe costing a crews life here or there accidents are prone to happen.  Raw ore is so cheep anyway not like your fleet will be spending all its time mining ore for profit. 
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Re: The Ousters nomadic playstyle. and the Book Hyperion.
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2021, 09:36:18 PM »

Terraforming and station construction mod lets you build stations around planets (siphon or astropolis) or in asteroid fields or even recolonize abandoned stations. It also adds some new buildings for things. Industrial evolution adds many new buildings for colonies as well as new events for exploration content. Notably, it adds the privateer base which periodically raids your foes.
Seeker has a custom paragon that is literally a space farm. It passively generates credits for you while you are in an inhabited system.
Nexerelin has mining, both asteroids and planet. There can be accidents, ambushes, and hidden caches. Also adds a lot of other stuff like invasions, vengeance fleets, alliances, and more. Make sure to read the feature list.
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Re: The Ousters nomadic playstyle. and the Book Hyperion.
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2021, 01:53:00 PM »

They use asteroids and other  Space junks as mobile cities.  BUT they are not low tech. cores.

the mod asteroid ship pack is half of that. Obviously by name it's ships that are asteroids but they are low tech so it's something close to that vibe

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Re: The Ousters nomadic playstyle. and the Book Hyperion.
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2021, 11:35:29 PM »

I am on Book 4 now oh the Hyperion Cantos.  I really see maybe a lot of parallel or inspiration in this game from that book universe. 

*1 Speed limit on ships or the crews could turn to paste.
*2 The Hageyra, The Pax Church, The Cyber Core AIs, Outback worlds, Nomadic(Pirate) or Ouster fleets. 
*3 Far Caster Gates.
*4 Fat line Interstellar coms network. 
*5 missing Earth

A few other subtle things. 

A fun way to build up a late game is yes to claim a Hyper shunt.  But linking it to the gates sends the Core AI's back to the sector.  Unite humanity with love and fight the AIs. 

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