So, there is this mod floating on discord called "Bingus", made by AlexAtheos, it is a overpowered star system with cryosleeper, shunt, and all 4 IndEvo ruins. I decided to create a derivative mod from it (with his permission, thanks AlexAtheos!), but I enjoy being vanilla-friendly regarding lore and backstory, so I decided to add some features for that, and those features needed other features... 1 month and a lot of scope creep later, it became a mini-faction mod.
I mean, it still is a single StarSystem mod, with a lot of cool features... all other things are there to make the Starsystem cooler.
Details: System is called "Paradisus", is trinary, has a lot of cool stuff to find, including custom admins and commanders that break vanilla limits.
Also it has a custom nexerelin start, so you don't have to find it. The start has a backstory, and because of this if you actually start on this start, you get a whole faction too, including faction ships (nothing major, mostly faction version of vanilla ships).
Still not done: quests, including one to actually unlock the system (it starts unlocked in my current build). And I am looking for help to make a cool unique ship for the player to use as flagship, and tied to the quests.
Lore of custom start: You are an employee of Exploratorium right after the collapse, the Exploratorium is the black ops arm of the domain, using normally-illegal technology (like AI warships) to defeat rebellious frontier worlds, exploration, dealing with potential first contact, dealing with non-sentient aliens (for example building a station to observe xenofauna that exists on a Gas Giant) and so on. Right after the collapse, before the Luddic Church even formed officially, you noticed one of the Exploratorium black ops project was now cut-off from space basically, "Paradisus", a perfect system that has all that the Domain would want.
The system already had a gate installed, colonization had started although not self-sufficient, and a lot of "interesting" projects, like the creation of AI-based administrators was going on inside laboratories over there. Because of the amount of controversial things there, and the fact the Domain didn't want to share the system with any corporation, the system jump points were made unstable on purpose, and the gate was the only way in, or out. Without the gates working, you expect for everyone there to die, since self-sufficiency wasn't expected of them yet. You plan then a mission, grab the last of the Exploratorium crewed ships on Persean Sector available, make a colonization fleet, and travel slowly, some 200 years or so, through normal space toward Paradisus star. When you get there the tasks are simple:
1. Restore connection to hyperspace.
2. Get rid of interloopers if there are any.
3. Secure all the Exploratorium technology lying around.
4. If Domain is back, proceed with original plans, colonize the system and hand it over.
5. If the Domain is not back... colonize the system, and start the Domain from it, crushing any pretenders and fake Domains out there.