Lighter Than Fast

Adds 5 playable races and their factions from the game Faster Than Light

Engi – An industrious race
- Engi, poor at combat, yet skilled builders
- An android like anatomy that allows modularity and specialization
Special
- 85% shooting accuracy / 80% melee hit chance
- 125% construction / drug / smithing / smefting / sculpting
- 90% social
- 120% Immunity gain speed
- 4x sockets( each socket has 1 core slot and 1 rom slot); 8 slots to customize your engi efficiency
Race traits
- Beauty 0%
- Immunity 80%
- Hard worker 30%
- Industrious 20%

Mantis – A race to kill them all
- Mantis, insectoid race, fast, feared fighter, poor builder
Special
- 115% Speed
- 130% Melee hit chance / 125% Shooting hit chance
- 120% sharp damage / 105% Melee evasion
- 75% Construction / 75% Drug production
- 85% Mining / 90% Smelting Smithing Tailoring
Race traits
- Bloodlust – 30%
- Psychopath – 30 %
- Cannibal – 30 %

Rockmen – A robust race
- Rockmen, slow, lot of hp, fireproof, good miners
Special
- + 150% Health scale
- + 110% mining speed
- + Fireproof, comfy temp over 9000 (frost may bite though)
- + Natural armor
- – 85% speed
- – 150% Hunger rate
- – 105% psychic sensitivity to depict religious inclination
Race traits
- Ascetic 10%
- Tough 10%

Slug – A psychic race
- Strong-willed, socially awkward, xenophobic
- Capable of weakening their enemies
Special
- Psychic ability : Cast a debilitating area of effect power that will decrease the combat and defensive skills of the enemy humanlikes in the zone.
- Drooling – they will generate some slug dew ressource now and then.
- Drooling again – They will spill some rainbow puddles all day and night.
- 50% psychic sensivity / 110% toxic sensivity.
- 90% Social.
- Immunity to slug powers and mind control.
Race traits
- Xenophobic – 80%
- Bisexual – 60 %

Zoltan – An electrical race
- Diplomats
- Ingenious experts of technology
- Living powerplants
Special
- Supply power to batteries that are close enough
- 115% Recruit prisoner chance
- 105% Research
- 85% Health
- Explode upon death without friendly fire
Race traits
- Beautiful – 20%
- Kind – 20%
- Xenophile – 50%

- Engie bench to craft roms / claws / shieldmet.
- Shield bench helps synthethize shield layers for Shieldmet : prevents melee attacks.

- Slug dew and kraptyl (2 new raw ressources and related walls/floors)
- Eggs + new ressources = magic. Equipable too.
- Synt claws for Mantis.
- Roms cpus coolers for Engis.

- over 150 Backstories, village names, colonist names.
- Many faces for Engi, Mantis.
- Corpses.
- Races playable from regular tribal start.

- ClodFish, Backstory teller, FTL races life destroyer.
- Canute, Transcendent, for his feedbacks.
- Erdelf, Humanoid framework creator.
- Lilairen, Literary priestess
- Mehni, Rimworld modder for releasing Pick Up and Haul and exposing my mod flaws.
- Roski, Callistan race modder, for helping me patching pirates and outlanders.
- Sentient_Worm, RimWorld veteran, for all the feedback.
- Sera, Apini mod creator, for allowing me to use her sprites.
- Wyvern, Mantis lover, for his feedbacks and errors hunting skills.
- HAR discord, what a bunch of nice people!
- Ludeon Forums for the feedback and discussions.
Other FTL inspired mods
Be sure to check these mods that are also inspired by Faster Than Light, enjoy 🙂
Stand alone versions
They are are marked as incompatible with this Lighter than fast mod: Since they use the same definitions, they would pop up harmless errors.
- Engi race – standalone version
- Mantis race – standalone version
- Rockmen race – standalone version
- Slug race – standalone version
- Zoltan race – standalone version
Download
Humanoid Alien Races — Steam Workshop
JecsTools — Steam Workshop
Required items:
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Humanoid Alien Races — Steam Workshop
JecsTools — Steam Workshop
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
