Galactic Heroes

Galactic Heroes — Named NPCs for X4 Foundations 9.x

v0. 10. 0-alpha1 (2026-07-18) — playable prototype

Player feedback wanted. What's fun, what's boring, what's broken, what's missing. Nexus comments, GitHub issues, or forum thread — all read.

TL;DR

X4 simulates trade, war, and station-building at the level of factions. It does not simulate people. There's no Argon admiral whose loss the empire feels; no infamous Buccaneer captain players hunt across sectors.

Galactic Heroes adds a thin layer of named characters on top of vanilla:

• []Every hero is a real flying NPC with a name, biography, and archetype — bound to a real flagship + escort fleet[/]

  []Heroes gain XP from confirmed kills their fleet makes, and climb through ★1-★5 ranks[/]

  []Heroes can die permanently via a d100 roll on flagship loss (20% KIA / 60% wounded / 20% unscathed at default)[/]

  []KIA heroes go to a KIA archive with final stats; a clone-of-founder takes over 2 game-hours later (same name + "(Clone #N)", fresh XP, but inherited perks)[/]

  []Perks system — 28 perks (common/rare/epic tiers), authored per template, auto-unlock at 10M cr milestone, LEARN new at 20M/50M/100M by tier[/]

  []Order Board — every faction has a task board with archetype-specific order types[/]

  []Player-driven revenue — sell satellites for intel, take on Trade Hub / Reserve Shipyard build contracts[/]

  []Heroes appear on the map as standard yellow quest-NPC markers (like Boso Ta) with a "Track" button[/]

  Design goal: emergent drama from system rules, not scripted quests. The mod is deliberately thin — no new ships, no new economy nodes, no per-frame AI. HeroManager wakes every ~5 game-minutes, makes decisions, dispatches vanilla orders.

  ►SCREENSHOT: In-game view of a hero with yellow marker + escort fleet