Crimson Fleet Rearmed

This mod adds a full new manufacturer to Starfield - The Crimson Fleet themselves! Using the unused internal files and the concept art as a starting point, I've developed a full new set of parts including cockpits, habs, landers, weapons etc.

All parts can be purchased from ship vendors at the Red Mile or the Key. Additionally, some Crimson Fleet ship types now use the new part style, and can be encountered and fought out in space, wherever the Crimson Fleet can be found. I recommend checking the Key if you want to easily spot these ships.

Currently this mod adds:

2x Cockpits

1X Landing Bay

1X Landing Gear

4X new hab external types, and 9 new internal variants

3x new weapons

6x new structural parts

For a complete reference to how these parts, and this new style works, see the Articles tab on this page. I've got a detailed write-up there.

Unfortunately, due to my upcoming work contract I will be unable to put in the time to build these patches. However, if you are interested in making a patch shoot me a message and I will happily support you.

What's up with the ladders?

These habs use a new custom ladder system. Unfortunately, this doesn't play well with the bethesda ladder animation system, and I was forced to revert to previous methods. It's not like you were going to stack these habs anyways, let's be honest.

What's next?

Due to work commitments, my modding will be limited for a while going forwards. This mod is as you see it. When my contract is up, I hope to add more hab variants, more things to do with the payload hab, and maybe an in-game factory, but that won't be for a while. If you have ideas for parts that you think would be cool, drop a message in the comments and if I like it it'll go in the ideas book.

How much of this is from the game files?

Almost nothing. Bethesda left the interior meshes from their unused pirate parts, but I tore them up and rebuilt them, keeping the general style and texturing but not the actual meshes. The Aggressor cockpit is based off a very simple unused mesh and the concept art. Everything else is all brand new built off my own concepts.

I only want the parts, I don't want the Crimson Fleet to fly their new ships

There's a small .esm patch in the files. It gets rid of the world integration.

Installation

1: As with all Starfield modding, make sure these lines are in your StarfieldCustom.ini in "Documents\My Games\Starfield\"

bInvalidateOlderFiles=1

sResourceDataDirsFinal=

2: Download via your preferred mod manager (Vortex, probably), or extract the data folder into you