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Pirate Ships Extended

Stellaris version supported: v2.1.*

Allows for designing and building of your own versions of the pirate ships regardless of the shipset / ship design you've chosen for your game or the use of other mods that add new ship types.

To achieve that it'll be necessary to defeat a couple of pirate ships and research their associated rare ship technologies. The ships that can be researched include the Raider, Frigate, Pirate Cruiser and the Galleon.

The AI will use the ships as well if certain conditions are met.

Galleon
The variant of the Galleon ship you'll receive after finishing the research:

• Can only be build at a starfortress or citadel.
  
• Is fully designable and has three sections with each six section templates.
  
• Does not come with an extra large weapon or perdition weapon.
  
• Has more weapons than the pirate and marauder versions because it was discovered that they actually used fake weapons!

I've aimed to make this mod as compatible as possible. It doesn't overwrite any Vanilla files. Everything in this mod is an addition. The goal was to make it compatible with any mods that adds new ships or stations (the rest should be fine as well).

The ships from this mod won't become smaller when using Downscaled Ships.

When removed the ships will all become invalid and be removed. However: invalid designs may be left over in the ship designer.

This mod was developed to be compatible with Military Ships Extended and Pirates Waves 3 but neither is required. The last one can give you easy access to pirates to destroy though.

The ships will not have access to combat computer, ship reactor or thruster components added through other mods unless it's specifically mentioned. Any other components should be available unless they're restricted to specific ship sizes.

• Compatible with existing saves. But it might throw some errors while trying to create the ships for the AI if they have not yet updated their designs.
  
• Every ship has working turrets which are different depending on which shipset you're choosen. This should be compatible even with new shipsets that add new turret designs.
  
• There are no technologies that improve the pirate ships.
  
• The other countries will also get access to the new technologies and they will use them. AI countries will receive twice as much process in the research of these technologies for every pirate ship they destroy. Events are used to build these ships for the AI countries. Their ships are built for the base price but the same technology and starbase size restrictions apply.
  
• Events are used to give technologies when pirate ships are destroyed.
  
• No DLC is needed.
  
• Military Ships Extended contains name lists for this mod.

Commands
will instantly give the new technologies to all the default countries.

will instantly create a combat fleet consisting of your own versions of the pirate ships at the selected planet. Doesn't work in multiplayer.