Faction Backgrounds and Faction Outpost Guards and Faction Ships

This mod allows you to join 5 hidden and normally not joinable factions at the start of a new game by selecting the corresponding background for the faction of choice during character creation. This mod does not just add backgrounds, it puts you into the faction so the faction members will be friendly towards the player.

Update 2/1/2025: Fixed typos in the spacer's description. Most importantly, now there are consequences if you join either Spacers, Ecliptic, The First, or Va'ruun Zealots. You will be seen as hostile by all good factions (UC and Freestar) and will be attacked on sight. It's a separate .esm, so if you want to turn these features off while still remaining in the factions, simply don't use JoinFactions1.esm. Otherwise, it requires both JoinFactions.esm and JoinFactions1.esm loaded. I highly recommend using an alternative start mod, like SKK's Alternative Start.

Update 8/20/24: Fixed the issue of other class ships not showing up. Class C faction ships appear at Neon starting level 40, Class M ships appear starting level 70 in New Homestead. You will need a mod that removes restrictions to use those ships. They cost several million credits despite the vendor lists them as under 500,000.

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Not only that, but this mod allows you to purchase faction specific ships in New Atlantis, and also build faction guards to defend your outposts. The guards are all restricted to which faction you’re a member of, from each faction. Note: The guards do not have weapons. This cannot be avoided or fixed no matter how badly you want it to be, due to an update that broke this ability and still hasn’t been fixed.. I tried alternatives and it just doesn’t work. You have to use a mod such as “SKK Followers and Stalkers”, which edits inventory to manually assign them weapons or use console commands if you’re on PC.

List of new backgrounds (starting factions to join):

United Colonies Marine

The First Mercenary

Ecliptic Mercenary

Va’ruun Zealot

Better class ships will become available in New Atlantis the higher your level. At level 100, you can purchase M class faction ships for certain factions. For the other normally joinable factions, you will unlock the ability to place down guards from that faction only if you join it normally through the quests. This includes Constellation, Crimson Fleet, UC Vanguard, UC SysDef, Ryujin Industries, and Freestar Rangers. Minor factions or any other faction will likely not be added.

If you like this mod, give an endorsement, or donate $ to me. Takes a lot of work and time to create these mods. Thanks.