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.

• Ships and stations have higher armor and shields
• stations have more hp and daily hull and armor generation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 will always spawn, even with Megacorp
• Nomads will spawn with a larger fleet

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

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

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.