New NPC factions...

[Panzer]

Well, those creatures don't necessarily have to be crabs or krakens (and please, I've been playing FL for over half a year now, plus a few more months on 1.0 SP) Indeed, a kraken is a mythical maritime monster (seen both parts of the pirates too). The creatures indeed don't even have to be multicellular animals (Thx for the background, Harequin, your help will be greatly appreceiated), but indeed colonies of smaller organisms, big enough to pose a threat to the player's ship. The "space monster" as a bloodthirsty interstella beast is (I admit) something that would spoil disco's balance a bit, but not a few rarely encountered cell colonies, which if disturbed can cause you trouble. As any bigger terrestrial animal. (lol, space crab for dinner - well, humanity even currently tends to seek out new sorts of food, like shark fin, something ateable gets in demand if it's found tasty, even if it's expensive, then well, the rich always can afford it - just like the luxury food commodity) Those
"space crabs" as you name them, don't necessarily need to spawn those goods. They may even not spawn anything at all, I don't mind. I only think, that a new alien animal race would bring some life and action to the rarely visited places in Sirius.

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