银心自闭星团 | Galactic Centre Isolated Cluster
This mod adds a unique star cluster located at the center of the galaxy, featuring a special gateway, perfect for isolation and peaceful development.
This mod is also known as: "About the Time I Decided to Build a New Mountain of Crap Instead of Fixing the Old One"
There are currently two ways to unlock the Cluster, and AI will not use them:
1. Set your empire’s starting solar system to Galactic Core Cluster , and the cluster will automatically generate at the start of the game.
2. Manually generate the cluster by enabling the Generate Galactic Centre Isolated Cluster option in Policies and Edicts.
Please note: For compatibility with some special origins, when using the Galactic Centre Isolated Cluster as your starting solar system, the birthplace of the player’s empire is not within the cluster, but in a random location in the galaxy.
I’m not skilled enough to resolve compatibility issues with special origins, despite my best efforts.
When the Cluster is generated, a special gateway connecting to the cluster will also be created in the player’s starting solar system, allowing the player to directly enter the cluster for exploration. All systems in the cluster are initially unexplored, mainly to trigger special events, like the Sea of Consciousness.
At the beginning of the game, the mod creates a cluster at the center of the galaxy, containing five solar systems and several abandoned megastructures. Those systems are arranged in a pentagram formation, including:
I’m terrible at naming things, so I borrowed place names from the Xianzhou Luofu in Honkai: Star Rail. Turns out, they fit pretty well!
At the start of the game, you’ll unlock 20% research progress for the Megastructure Engineering technology, preventing it from getting stuck in the tech shuffle. Once this technology is fully researched, all megastructures within the cluster can be repaired.
The entire cluster is unreachable by conventional FTL travel. Combined with the special gateway, it allows for perfect isolation, protecting you from surprise invasions.
When the cluster is generated, two connected special gateways, the Otherworldly Portal, will be created in the home system and Cloudford. It works just like an L-Gate and looks identical too because I’m not skilled at modeling . The gateway in Cloudford serves as a transit point, similar to the terminal exit in the L-Cluster.
This gateway is accessible only by the player—no other empire can pass through, not even those annoying Fallen Empires.
The player can build this gateway in any system within their territory. The cost and construction time are the same as a regular gateway. Yes, I was too lazy to create new data, so I just copied the original gateway stats.
Unlike my previous mod, this one does not apply any special changes to the home system at the start, so it’s compatible with origins like Here Be Dragons.
In theory, it shouldn’t conflict with other mods.
Here’s the link to my previous mod Crap Mountain :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3026503101
