Hey, I've been using this mod for years, It's been great.
However, I've been running into some issues with the interaction between this and the commission system.
The Templars start of as unhospitable toward the player, presumably so you don't have to fight them until you feel ready. However, taking a commission is pretty much required to progress at a good rate in the game now. Since the Templars are hostile to every other faction, taking a commission makes you hostile to them as well. This, by itself, is fine.
Problem is, a lot of the Templar ships have very high burn speed, making avoiding confrontation often almost impossible. The changes with the commission system kind of broke the "The Templars won't mess with you until you're ready"-thing this mod had going for it previously.
Maybe there's some way to fix it at a high level, having the Templar's relationship with the player be unaffected by commissions. If not, maybe lowering their burn speed by 1 across the board would help. Right now, the mod is probably not quite giving the desired experience.