I'm sorry, I love this mod, but I just couldn't stand them, so I made mine. https://i.imgur.com/rz3tUt0.png
While I do not agree with the ones you made, I do agree that the ones that come with the mod are taking out the immersion (especially for the Rome 2 cover guy, he's way too memorable)
This was a quick, sloppy patchwork that I went through the moment I visited the first Imperial World.
Properly teaching AI with stable diffusion takes time, especially if you want to make everything from scratch, without introducing the OG or someone else's portraits first for it to mimic.
I'm experimenting out of curiosity, for now.
But I am slowly getting there, sometimes it listens, sometimes it misses
https://i.imgur.com/0Gxm7Pu.pngIf I ever do that properly, I'd most definitely use it for my own mod, like a unique missions pack. Probably won't be able to mimic Starsector perfectly, but I know editing tools, like oil paint filters, gauss blur, and algorithms, that could bring them close enough for a 128x128 pic to match the theme well enough once the AI is done with the close approximation.
This one I've done because, while I love the faction's theme, and ships (which are well balanced with the vanilla), the portraits were breaking the immersion worse than some weeb packs and factions out there (one day Aurora, one day...).