Here, There Be Dragons

Now Ether Dragons can travel through the galaxy. And it is not a single dragon.

! Important note: now to grow dragon you need to select any Molten/Shattered planet inside your borders and use specific planetary decision!

For old good 2.1 version please use this mod: 2.1 version of the mod
For anyone who prefer 1.9 version here is the link: 1.9 version of this mod

Mod adds roaming dragons in the galaxy. Dragons usually are just travelling between stars, stays near some of them for some time and travel again. Time from time dragon may lay an egg and new dragon will born.

Chinese localization – thanks to 惡芽のINFINI7E

– Updated for 3.11.
– Dragons: Reborn. Part II. Adds Dragon Wing Plasma weapon, yes, finally. Reworked dragon incubation process via planetary decision on Molten and Shattered planets.
– Dragons: Reborn. Part I. With Ascension Path taken it is possible to grow enhanced Dragons: Psi Dragon, Genetic Dragon, Cyborg Dragon and Nanite Dragon

Leviathans DLC is required.

There are 4 dragon forms: Whelp, Wyrmling, Dragon and Wyrm
Only Wyrm may lay an egg (about every 20 years)
Egg becomes Whelp in about 10 year
Whelp becomes Wyrmling in about next 10 years
Wyrmling -> Dragon takes ~15 years
And finally Dragon becomes Wyrm in another ~20 years

– Aggressive but will not retaliate being attacked
– Avoid black holes, Fallen Empires space (they know how to scare dragons away), Enclave systems
– Don’t like systems with pulsars and neutron stars and with colonized planets, but may visit them still.

Both dragon types – hoard and roaming – are different countries, but hoard dragon is friendly to any other roaming dragons entering his system. Mod doesn’t change Dragon Hoard events and storyline, but you can get its unique weaponary from roaming dragons debries.

– "How to train your own dragon". Event may happen after finishing "The Way of The Dragon" event chain. When you find dragon mother hatching an Egg then special project will occur to investigate that planet and understand how to determine if there can be Egg on a planet. With that knowledge you will get anomaly on planet with an Egg and chance to get that Egg and grow you own small but formidable dragon. Note, it will not grow, consider it is like dwarf dragon.
– "The Way of The Dragon" event chain will allow you to find out what dragons like and avoid. At the end you will get ‘Dragon’s Fear’ edict to scare dragons out of your space and also may determine hatching dragons.
– When dragon is defeated the special project will be spawn to explore its remains. It can give you research points and/or some dragon-related techs (Energy Lances, Dragon’s Armor, Dragon’s Lightning (PD weapon) and devastating Dragon’s Breath long-range weapon.

With 2.0 update it requires some explanation to use it wisely. ‘Dragon Fear’ edict allows to scare dragons out empire space, it is device of some sort which consumes amount of energy and can be sustained only on developed starbases or colonies. So its mechanic is the following:
Full ‘Fear’ effect is produces by
– starfortress and citadels
– planetary capital
– planetary fortress
Effect makes system ‘bad’ for dragons meanwhile they may visit it in some rare conditions.
Weaker ‘Fear Aura’ effect
– exists in all systems connected to one with a full effect
– produced by starports
Effect makes system be ‘avoided’ by dragons so they would prefer other ways if any. That means dragons will visit ‘aura’ systems but less likely than others.

When you will investigate all ‘liked’ system and some ‘not-liked’ the special project will appear to research that data. As result the edicts will be available to disguise your fleet/stations as dragon kin and friendly dragons.

Note, when edicts ends, there is period in about 3 years where dragons will stay neutral, but after that they will become hostile again. Be careful with that.

Note also that not all ethics and civics allows that edict.

Dragons are able to create unique wormhole if stuck in some system. Such Etherhole requires normal star as source of power and takes dragon health during creation. Etherholes are asymmetrical, each pair has ‘enter’ and ‘exit’, all etherholes are connected as node-nexus connections between ‘enters’ and ‘exits’. You may travel through it in any direction but not between the same types, i.e. ‘enter’-‘enter’ and ‘exit’-‘exit’ are prohibited. All natural Etherholes are temporary and will disappear eventually. Sometimes that could lead to situation when Etherhole network is ‘disconnected’, e.g. if there are only one type of holes – either ‘enter’ or ‘exit’. This state will last until any new pair will be created by some dragon or until all etherholes will gone

Related techs:
– Etherhole investigation. Discover how to travel through Etherhole network.
– Etherhole stabilization. Allow you to keep Etherhole opened permanently by creating special megastructure which connects wormhole with the closest star to supply it with needed energy. Such Etherholes will stay forever after that.
– Etherhole Friend-or-Foe technique. Enhance Etherholes to be able to control access and close gates on your territory for enemies

Mod should be compatible with everything, that means it will work in general and will not affect other mods.

Playable Guardians note:
While mod is compatible with PG mod, it adds a confusion because there are many dragons to kill now but PG event will trigger only for one particular drake which is guarding Hoard planet. That is why there is additional support for PG – the event to get own playable drake will appear when you defeat any adult dragon in game.

The mod is quite stable, please report any issues or incompatibilities back to me.

Enjoy. Or suffer.

For anyone interested in source code, here is it: https://github.com/gogabor/htbd