Starborn Research ( New Game Plus Alternative )
What does this do?
This mod creates a rudimentary alternative path to obtaining the Starborn ship and spacesuits. For now this is done via spending lots of credits at the research station. I intend for this to be the first phase of a more complete solution.
With this mod you will unlock the ability to build a Starborn Spacesuit dispenser (called “Dark Matter Fabricator”), that will let you trade a large sum of credits for a randomized legendary suit. And, you can keep doing this until you get a good roll or collected a full set or whatever. Though the machine can become jammed and you will need to wait for it to reset. Huh, kind of like a vending machine…? That’s so weird.
You will also unlock the ability to purchase the Starborn Guardian VI at your outpost ship builder.
Caveats: I haven’t figured out the best way to unlock the ship hatch yet (it will say Inaccessible). You can still enter the ship by fast-traveling to the cockpit, but I recommend unlocking the hatch via console because you only have to do it once and then its done forever. I also haven’t figured out how to allow the ship to be sold, so don’t get more than one.
CONSIDER THIS A “BETA TEST” FOR NOW AND KEEP YOUR PREVIOUS SAVE.
I hope you will try it out and report about your experience.
Mod Details
The normal version of the mod requires you to have progressed the story and learned the first Starborn Power. You can then research Starstuff -> Alien Weave -> Quantum Drive to unlock everything. In the normal version these cost over a million credits in total, this huge amount of credits is meant to be an aspirational goal for long single playthroughs. But you can also use the cheat version to reduce the research costs by 99% and also eliminate the progress requirement. (During this “Beta” period I have only made the cheat version available so that it is easier to try out and test the mod.)
Alien Weave unlocks the spacesuit dispenser (“Dark Matter Fabricator”), that will normally cost 55,555 to build. You can then dispense legendary spacesuits for 22,222 each.
Quantum Drive unlocks the ship. You must build the large landing pad with the ship builder terminal. Go to the buy ship section of the terminal and you will find the Starborn Guardian VI for about 65k. If it doesn’t appear right away you can try save-scumming, or rebuilding the landing pad, or fly to Venus and sleep a couple nights to reset the ship selection, it is random but very common.
To unlock the ship hatch, bring up the console while looking at the hatch, click until you see “Door” appear, then type ‘unlock’ and hit enter.
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