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[pronoia]

I know Alex has done a lot of work differentiating the ship types for the standard factions which is great but is there any news (or even mods) that there will be drastically different ship types and "factions"? I can understand that implementing these for player controlled ships would require redoing large portions of the game so may never happen but would be cool to encounter them on your travels and in particular needing special ships and loadouts depending on the encounter compared to existing encounter types. For example certain planet types would have such entities guarding them that would need to be killed before they can be settled.

So for example instead of differences in preferences for tech level or energy/ballistic/missile/carrier ops things using completely different systems (or existing systems in a completely different way) like:

Biological ships which grow based on damage dealth and shrink or die based on damage received or if simpler "birth" sub units as they deal damage. Associated parasitic weapons which either are fired spore like missiles and attach to ships dealing damage over time or using "beam" like appendages to envelop and consume ships that get too close to them, both attack types resulting in the growth of the ship. Some of these "fleets" would just be a single ship of different sizes and capabilities.

Energy beings either being unaffected by anything but energy weapons or feeding on energy weapons so needing to be destroyed by anything but them.

Horde type entities like nanites that move as a single being and swarm through a fleet devouring them as they go. Greatest defense is to not get in the way so fast or phasing ships.

Colonial enemies such as converging planetoids on a collision course highly resistant to anything bar mining weapons.

Psychic style enemies rapidly reducing CR on crewed ships but having no effect on drone/uncrewed ships.

[vladokapuh]

please no

[Not a Pirate]

please no

Really?   

Have you not heard the song from the gates?  Have you not spoken to Ludds messenger? Because he's heard the same song...

Is it just a coincidence that YOU not some other starship captain was able to do what no one else could and activate the long dead gates...?


Could those gates open to a place full of things so terrible that Lovecraft himself would scream from his ancient grave?


I hope to be the one who faces the things of nightmares and be remembered as the only captain who could fight...Legends.