space entitites

[Sprolf]

I actually like this idea.
I like this idea a lot.

There's two ways to do this: Have the jellies be ordinary ho hum particles like one mines everyday...

Or add them as a an actual NPC ship that's neutral to everything, voiceless, slow, et cetera... You couldn't animate them, but they could be similar to a volvox or some other colonial microorganism-based creature.

There's NPCs in the real game that don't show up on your replist - The Unknown Faction, Quintain's Men, Kress's Men, and the corrupt navies and such. Making this "faction" not show up would be easy enough.

This approach would make mining and researching more interesting.
Rather than chasing random particles, you'd be chasing a "ship" as it were.
They wouldn't be very big at all, obviously, and the engines could either be nonexistent or a little trail of sparklies - or something that looked like tentacles on a jellyfish. (At this point, I'm just randomly rambling, I know little about this area of modding, and I'll be quiet.)

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