Terraformer J

This is my first mod, modifying an existing ship. Adding what I hoped the Xenon H was when I first saw it teased. This does not replace, it adds a new variant to fly alongside the H.

It’s armaments and stats are the same, though it has less drone capacity than the H, as it’s focused on it’s role as a carrier instead.

This adds the Xenon J, a variant of the H with no S Docks to the Xenon.

Docking is done via the 6 launch bays on either side of the ship. The front two launchbays are for undocking only, due to waypoint issues.

There are 4 fleets galaxywide supplementing the defence of Xenon space.

The fleet consists of 1 ‘Patrol Carrier J’ with 16 fighters, 1 ‘Patrol Destroyer H’ with 3 M escorts with 4 fighters per M. Adding a sizeable force to help protect their territory. These jobs are rebuilt at wharves/shipyards.

This ship is mainly intended for NPC use, but can be used by the player. You can capture it like a H, or add the blueprint to build in custom gamestart.

You must use shift+D to teleport to the bridge if you manually dock to the ship, with no S Dock, there’s no walkable way from the ship to the bridge.

Made and tested on 7.50, untested on 7.10. Unsure how that may affect it’s equipment and stats due to the beta’s flight model changes.

Some mods may also use the J’s name, though as an L carrier, it’s distinct by it’s different icon (Like the Guppy’s map icon).

I have no plans for a VRO patch currently, but may look into in future. If you’d like to make a VRO patch, I only ask you please ask permission and give credit.

There are a few issues I’ve observed, but are relatively minor.

• With the J only on ‘hold position’ behaviour, subordinates might not all dock without using ‘recall subordinates’ command, or giving the carrier an order/behaviour (Tends to only happen in player control, Xenon are always actively doing something, so issue doesn’t arise).
• Xenon fleets occasionally get stuck recalling subordinates, but will get moving again eventually.
• There is a hole where the S Dock used to be, for now this will remain until I learn blender and edit the model myself. However, this hole does blend in with the rest of the H’s geometry.

If you’d like to use my mod in your own or make a VRO patch, please ask permission here, I’ll try reply when I can! ♥

Special thanks go to Rothank on the Egosoft discord for helping me figure out launctube docking for S ships, and answering some questions. As well as to other modders like z1p and Unitrader on the Egosoft discord for their generous help answering my questions! ♥

And most of all big thanks to Egosoft for the X series! ♥