MSA Career Addition
Adds a custom faction, the Molten System Alliance, to Career Mode and their ships to the ship library.
The Molten System Alliance has 67 combat ships, 25 civilian ships, 8 stations, and 10 defence platforms for a total of 110 ships. The mod also includes two new hyper-jump beacons and a bunch of new wreckages based on MSA ships that can spawn ingame. The new faction and its ships are meant to be fairly challenging – they’re stronger than Fringe, Cabal, or Monolith ships, but not as strong as Io or Imperium ones.
The Molten System Alliance is a relatively small state formed by rebelling from the Monolith Cooperative when Great House Io returned and is now fighting fiercely for its survival. Alliance ships almost always have heavy armour and a mix of overclocked and non-overclocked parts. They make use of any weapons except nukes – they don’t have as much territory as the other factions (including ingame) and so have only a single ship design that makes use of nukes. They have a very large and chaotic menagerie of civilian ships, due to their anti-monopoly trade law, which prevents any single entity from owning more than a small part of all trade passing through a system. This was made as a response to the sheer dominance the Monolith Cooperative used to have over them.
Tectonica Research is a subdivision of the MSA with their own unique ship design and paint style, recognizable by their red lights, rounded monochrome appearance, and strange designs. Tectonica specializes in coming up with experimental ship designs that can be seen in use by pirates or the Alliance’s navy. In gameplay terms, they have weird ships that do things that normal career NPC ships don’t do such as spam tractor beams, use autofire overclocked ions to hit through armour, and use mining lasers.
Extra thanks to:
Obaid Danish for designing the Large MSA Arms Depot, helping design the Hellrain, and making and painting the Siege Engine.
Admiral_Grant for making and painting the Medium MSA Trade Station II as well as making and painting many MSA civilians (Argentium, Dymalloy, Dysprosium, Electrum, Mischmetal, Neodymium, Rhodite, Samarium, Shibuichi, and Tumbaga) and the combat ships Meteor Fist and Luminant Wing.
Corrupt_again for making and painting the MSA Hyper-Jump Beacon as well as the Small Large Cannon Platform and the combat ship Sulphurous Slinger
Sup3r87 for refining the MSA logo into something actually good
Full ship list below. Ships that use ramming, kiting, or orbiting AI, or nukes, are marked with [R], [K], [O], or [N].
Tier 1: Copper Dart, Dross Pellet, Meteor Fist [R], Slag Shell
Tier 2: Burning Shard, Carbon Suppressor, Iron Pellet, Luminant Wing, Opal Striker
Tier 3: Diamond Drill, Heat Shield [K], Stone Cutter, Tectonica Skiff
Tier 4: Disulfide Suppressor, Experimental Ion Scout [R], Neutrino Javelin, Parrying Dagger
Tier 5: Plasma Caster, Shimmering Knife, Void Tracer
Tier 6: Duskforged Blade, Flare Sentry, Magnesium Flash, Radiant Sabre [K]
Tier 7: Hexite Furnace, Igneous Cascade [R], Lithium Haze
Tier 8: Creeping Barrage, Experimental Ion Corvette [R], Hellkite, Neon Harbinger
Tier 9: Carbide Array, Magnesium Flare, Nuclear Flash [N]
Tier 10: Fusion Hammer, Incandescent Interceptor, Plated Bombard [O], Tectonica Bulwark
Tier 11: Eutrophic Shroud [O], Sulphuric Surge [R], Vulcanite Lance
Tier 12: Magnesium Torch, Plasmic Dragoon, Sulphurous Slinger [K]
Tier 13: Firestorm, Havoc Mantle [R], Luminous Hail [K], Phosphorus Rain [O], Silver Spear [K], Telluric Edge
Tier 14: Austenite Assault [R], Black Knife, Burning Sky, Experimental Ion Destroyer [R]
Tier 15: Experimental Railgun Cruiser [K], Iodine Crossbow, Phosphorus Storm [O], Palladium Chainbreaker
Tier 16: Hellrain [O], Titan Crusher, Tyranny’s End
Tier 17: Astral Bombardment, Caesium Trident, Steel Saviour
Tier 18: Planet Carver, Siege Engine [K]
Civilians:
Tier 3: Dymalloy, Elektron, Neodymium, Obsidian, Tumbaga, Small Tectonica Cargo Drone
Tier 5: Aventurine, Electrum, Medium Tectonica Cargo Drone, Promethium, Rhodite, Samarium
Tier 6: Büchner
Tier 7: Argentium, Duralumin, Dysprosium, Large Tectonica Cargo Drone, Newton
Tier 10: Einstein, Flerovium, Inconel, Kyanite, Mischmetal, Shibuichi
Tier 13: Euler
Trade Stations: 1 of each size category (Small, Medium, Large) except Medium Trade (they have two Medium Trade Stations).
Arms Depots/Bases: 1 of each size category (Tiny, Small, Medium, Large)
