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Faction: Bor'ak Insurgency
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X4: Kingdom End
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Faction: Bor'ak Insurgency

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Desperate Borons from the Provences Adrift who have managed to not only contact, but ally with the Kha'ak. Escaping the water famine with the Kha'ak's warp technology, they now swear vengeance on the Queendom and all her allies.

Part of the faction conflict expansion. Should only require Kingdom End, however if you notice anything breaking please let me know. Compatible with any overhaul mod, however will not use any new ships or weapons. Feel free to make any patches to change this. I consider these mods to be open source.

Can load into a current saved game, but keep a back up if you change your mind.
Uninstalling will break the save.

DeadAir Dynamic Wars incorporates any new faction with no issue, I highly recommend it.
Updated version here: https://github.com/DeadAirRT/deadair_scripts

Allied to Pirates, Kha'ak, hostile to most others, not hostile yet dislikes player, and hates the Queendom of Boron specifically. Fair warning: This faction is designed to be problematic and utilize pirating, they will NOT steal unclaimed ships.

Possess ~3 random neutral sectors once loaded in, can be used in any map configuration so long as there is enough space. Even if there isn't any unclaimed sectors they may still try to build. New Kha'ak stations under Bor'ak control may appear as well.

I recommend a custom game if you want to work with them or using a mod that can change faction relations. It may not be necessary but I haven't fully tested their interactions with the Kha'ak.

Uses Boron and Kha'ak technology.

The logo is from here: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/917/
Highly recommend adding these logos to your collection.
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Joey Stink-Eye Smiles  [author] 29 Apr @ 7:37pm 
They will get placed in any available unclaimed sector, and they are limited to just 2-3 sectors for initial placement. This is so they can be compatible with any universe layout/configuration, even if added mid game, but yeah it can sometimes lead to odd placements. It's partly why I have them all as insurgent style combative factions. I believe they will try to claim any adjacent sectors, according to the game's own faction logic. It may take awhile before they have a cluster like most factions.
Bozz 💀 29 Apr @ 1:52am 
Why are the factions starting with all their stations spread all over the map ?
Joey Stink-Eye Smiles  [author] 19 Apr @ 8:47am 
Sorry for such a delayed reply, haven't touched X4 in a minute. I've considered making a faction for every race, and possibly a coalition faction of all races, but lost interest due to how taxing having all of them could be on a single game. I may still make them for variety's sake. It's likely they won't have unique tech as the current 3.

All current factions will at least be updated when the diplomacy update comes out. That's when I'll consider making a new one, most likely a teladi first.
SphinxSech 15 Jan @ 9:32pm 
hey friend just wanted to ask if you plan on making more factions, ive allways looked for added factions mods to add more factions to the game but i never seem to find anything until this, it would be awesome to see more of your creations.
Joey Stink-Eye Smiles  [author] 14 Aug, 2024 @ 4:11pm 
Just updated it, turns out there was an error causing them to spawn around 15 XL battleships when I wanted them to have like 2-4 for invading boron space and general patrol.

Not sure what I can do about those nukes within my mod entirely since it seems to be a ware any faction has access to, I tried to lower their chances of getting the max loadout, but they may still have nukes.
AxeOfKukujevo 12 Aug, 2024 @ 5:51am 
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3008518740&searchtext=stealth+bomber
Nukes are from here. Nuke torpedoes seem to automatically add to torpedoe loadouts at Preset High.
In this case it was the Shark's subordinates.
Seems fair to not be the only one using those toys, but it gets crazy when it's a whole carrier's deck packing those. And they are really costly.

I've seem to have wiped out most of the starting forces near my HQ. They've settled in Xenon sectors and are giving the locals a hard time. Because those guys still get regular Obliterators out of somewhere. This ship is not meant to be that common, and no major faction can effectively resist that. The only vanilla counter is Asgard, but only if it manages to land the first shot. Otherwise it gets one-shot alongside with fighters.

Overall it does a good job of spicing up the gameplay. Just needs a bit of balancing.
Joey Stink-Eye Smiles  [author] 11 Aug, 2024 @ 8:28am 
I think they will spawn with a huge fleet but if any of those ships are taken out they will need to rebuild them at a shipyard. I have all the combat fleets tagged to be built at shipyard so that may just have something to do with how they're initially spawned in. They're supposed to be a threat to all factions, they have no allies.

Can you link the mod with the nukes? The mod maker either replaced an already existing weapon/ware or they gave the faction access to it themselves. Either way I'll have to look at it. Anyone is allowed to add on to these factions if they want nerf or buff them.
AxeOfKukujevo 10 Aug, 2024 @ 11:42am 
Ok, now they are using nuclear weapons from another mod. Is it supposed to be this way?)
AxeOfKukujevo 9 Aug, 2024 @ 7:22am 
Are they supposed to have a huge fleet of capital ships once they spawn in, and start wrecking everyone with overwhelming force?
Do they just spawn all that out of nowhere, instead of building?
Joey Stink-Eye Smiles  [author] 2 Aug, 2024 @ 7:55pm 
my only guess would be just try adding the word "khaak" to all the relevant components, weapons turrets, shields, etc.

like this for boron

<connection name="con_turret_m_02" group="group_front_down_right " tags="khaak boron combat hittable medium missile turret ">

or this for everything else

<connection name="con_turret_013" group="group_mid_down_right" tags="khaak standard turret medium missile hittable ">

i don't have much confidence that'll work but it's worth trying.