First Encounters [Spoilers Ahead]

Given some of the topics this mod deals with, Standard vanilla fleet/market interactions don't quite cut it. These factions come from outside the sector, and from outside humanity itself. I'm not willing to mod them into a setting like Starsector and then pretend like that doesn't come with implications.

This post will be heavy with spoilers for a mod I hope most people will experience blind, but I also want to talk about it, and not everyone cares about spoilers, so consider yourself warned.

While we're not going to have a Star Trek style first encounter episode complete with an impassioned speech from Patrick Stewart or William Shatner, your first interactions with the Arkarans will have unique dialogue.

It's not a short interaction taken all together, but there are a few option branches that allow you to skip some of the more fluff-oriented segments.

More importantly, there is an interaction similar to the initial docking issues for your first fleet encounter, if you go through one of them, you get to skip the other one.

Additionally, until your first market interaction, and your talk with Takaya and Jose, all fleet officer portraits will exclusively draw from helmeted images. This limits the number of different first-encounter iterations I need to write, as they could quite easily baloon into a massive pile of work if I had to account for every possibility. So until you dock with a station, you will mostly be dealing with "Fleets from a strange new faction of unknown origins"