Spaceborne Civs Expanded

A mod that expands on the spaceborne empires and creatures, such as enclaves and caravaneers. Includes new caravan deals, the return of the nomads, and more.

Full Feature List

All:

• Ships and stations have higher armor and shields

• stations have more hp and daily hull and armor generation

Enclaves:

• Enclave species get additional traits (most important being erudite for the curators)

• At 25 opinion, Trader Enclaves offer alloys and consumer goods

• At 75 opinion, Trader Enclaves offer special edicts that mimics the effects of the strategic resources from pre-2.2

• At 100 opinion, Trader Enclaves can offer you a special deal once every 10 years

• Artist Enclaves can build new stations to replace any that were destroyed

• Artist monument gives +5% unity from jobs

• Ministry of Culture now gives +5% unity empire wide, and +10% government ethics attraction (non-gestalt) or -10 deviance (gestalt) empire wide

• Additional patronage events

• Artist Festival has a chance to spawn artist troupe half-species pops (requires Megacorp)

• Artist Festival has a chance to spawn a free artist monument on one of your planets

• New Curator Technologies

• Materialist Fallen Empires won't ask you for your curator or legendary scientists

• Archeology Lab with Ancient Relics also gives +25% anomaly research speed

• After hiring a Master Salvager, you can purchase access to a new edict.

• At 60 opinion, the Salvagers will sell Nanites once every 5 years. Requires an open L-Gate and no active Gray Tempest

Caravaneers:

• Many new trade deals (See Discussions for details)

• Adjusted some weights when choosing products and pricing

• Racket will sell robot pops to synthetic empires

• Tupperware will also save on mineral pop upkeep (Lithoids)

• Vengralian Trium will accept complex drones as payment from machine empires

• Vengralian Trium will accept random pops as payment from non gestalt empires if they have unemployed or undesirable pops

• Spawning Stimulants also give +10% organic pop assembly

• The Numistic Order starts with a species from a random ai empire ready to sell

• New Caravan events

• New Reliquaries

Marauders and Pirates

• Space pirate's main system will still spawn with Apocalypse. With Apocalypse, 2 pirate fleets will start roaming the galaxy 33-50 years after game start

• Marauders will accept alloys as tribute

• Mercenary and Raider fleets have stronger shields, and their bases have hull and armor regen

• Marauder Galleons have the same speed as their cruisers

• Raiding the Galactic Emperor is twice as expensive

• Marauder Mercenaries can become available after 2300

• Marauder species are void dwellers, and don't all have the same traits

• Khan can spawns more fleets if there are very strong playable empires

• Khan starts with strong starbases in their starting systems

• When down to their last few planets, ai will generally surrender to the Khan rather than die

• Successor empires are generally stronger

Space Creatures

• Option to pacify space creatures can be chosen after further researching the creature. Cost of pacification has been reduced to keep the total cost the same

• Void Clouds can be pacified by non-xenophobe spiritualists (plus the usual suspects)

• Mining Drones can be reprogrammed by materialists, robot empires, and non-spiritualist pacifists

• Cutholoids can be pacified pacifists and servitors

• Hunting buff unlocked by various gestalt civics (such as Warbots)

• Added a method to get Crystal-Forged Plating if you chose to pacify the crystals

• Added a method to get the Surveyor if you chose to pacify the mining drones

• Buffed the Ameoba Centenarian

• Space Whales and Ameobas will wander the galaxy, as they once did

• Killing peaceful spacers will upset xenophile and pacifist pops

• Hunting buff gives more resources and research per fleet

• Asteroid Hive system has some mineral deposits replaced with rare crystal deposits

• Higher level bio drives increases ship speed

Guardians

• Some empires can purchase special projects from the Curators that let them pacify some Guardians

• Available to Fanatic Pacifists, Nesting Grounds, Empaths, and Rouge Servitors

• Pacifying Guardians also grants a reward of Unity and Tech

• The following Guardians can be Pacified:

• • Asteroid Hivers
• • Tiyanki Matriarch
• • Spectral Wraith
• • Ether Drake

Nomads:

• Nomads will always spawn, even with Megacorp

• Nomads will spawn with a larger fleet

Leviathans:

• Wraiths can spawn if discovered after the mid-game
• will spawn 65-75 years after discovery

Other

New Origin: Nesting Grounds (Requires Distant Stars)

• Start with an adopted space amoeba, amoebas pacified, and relevant tech options

• Always starts in or near a nebula

• Can build Stellar Zoo starbase buildings in systems with space fauna, giving unity and society research, and amenities to local planets.

• Unlocks special project to unlock Voidlures. Gives unity and society research from Voidlures.

• Gains access to new space fauna technologies

• With Grand Archive DLC, gets +33% vivarium capacity and space fauna hull, and +1 space fauna breeding chance

Donations

I have recently launched a patreon page. I have a lot of future plans for my mods, but they will rely on your support to see fruition. I'm not planning on delaying releases for non-patreons or anything like that, but my patreons will get behind the scenes looks into upcoming content. If you enjoy my mods, I hope you consider donating a little.