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Capture it without losing your Marine Officer, and get it to actually work.
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The Xenon's K/Branch 9 destroyers are quite nice, except for the fact that you can't have one. At least, not in an operational state, since it has no dock, you can't dock to put a captain on board. (More importantly, you can't retrieve your Marine Officer!)
Well, now you can!
I've changed the boarding scripts so that ships without player docks (Xenon K destroyers seem to be the only ones currently...) have things done a little differently.
Instead of needing to dock and put your crew members in there manually, you automatically get a full set of crew members (Captain, Defense Officer and Engineer) already on board to run the thing.
How do we retrieve the Marine Officer without a dock? Well, the marines all come back aboard on their pods automatically (and instantly!) after capturing the ship. The Marine Officer should be able to do the same.
Since the only reason any ship wouldn't have an access hatch would be if it has no living pilot, a.k.a. run by A.I., think of it as "we gave the Marine Officer an AI/AGI hacking/remote control module slaved to the Skunk that they can slap onto the main systems after capturing the ship" or something like that.
(So, after capturing, the module we placed there would take orders from us, just like Captains would do, defend/attack and repair itself just like Defense Officers and Engineers do. That's what the "free crew" I put there try to simulate. ...The humans you see on the comms? Um...they're holographic avatars!)
But doing this will still leave you with a half-dead destroyer with no engines, no jump drive, probably no guns, and more importantly, no repair drones to fix the rest. (Yeah, they don't, and can't spawn with repair drones. 0 drone slots.)
So, I made it add 1 repair drone (bypassing the 0 slot limit) when you capture it, and now you can (...eventually) have it operational.
-Installation-
Extract contents to "<where you installed X Rebirth>/Extensions", and create the Extensions folder if it does not exist.
-Some other mods you might want with this-
1. Hull Engineer
The repairs are going to be pretty slow. This mod gives player's capital ships with repair drones the ability to remotely repair other nearby capital ships.
2. Ignore Fuel
If you capture one in Maelstrom...
3. Welding Laser
Lend a hand in repairing. Useful in other situations as well.
Well, now you can!
I've changed the boarding scripts so that ships without player docks (Xenon K destroyers seem to be the only ones currently...) have things done a little differently.
Instead of needing to dock and put your crew members in there manually, you automatically get a full set of crew members (Captain, Defense Officer and Engineer) already on board to run the thing.
How do we retrieve the Marine Officer without a dock? Well, the marines all come back aboard on their pods automatically (and instantly!) after capturing the ship. The Marine Officer should be able to do the same.
Since the only reason any ship wouldn't have an access hatch would be if it has no living pilot, a.k.a. run by A.I., think of it as "we gave the Marine Officer an AI/AGI hacking/remote control module slaved to the Skunk that they can slap onto the main systems after capturing the ship" or something like that.
(So, after capturing, the module we placed there would take orders from us, just like Captains would do, defend/attack and repair itself just like Defense Officers and Engineers do. That's what the "free crew" I put there try to simulate. ...The humans you see on the comms? Um...they're holographic avatars!)
But doing this will still leave you with a half-dead destroyer with no engines, no jump drive, probably no guns, and more importantly, no repair drones to fix the rest. (Yeah, they don't, and can't spawn with repair drones. 0 drone slots.)
So, I made it add 1 repair drone (bypassing the 0 slot limit) when you capture it, and now you can (...eventually) have it operational.
-Installation-
Extract contents to "<where you installed X Rebirth>/Extensions", and create the Extensions folder if it does not exist.
-Some other mods you might want with this-
1. Hull Engineer
The repairs are going to be pretty slow. This mod gives player's capital ships with repair drones the ability to remotely repair other nearby capital ships.
2. Ignore Fuel
If you capture one in Maelstrom...
3. Welding Laser
Lend a hand in repairing. Useful in other situations as well.