IndustrialRobot wrote:I did have a few ideas for events:
A Federation ship is attempting to mine in the Arcadian territory, either fight, or negotiate, and he hands over the materials.
Another attempts to bribe you to keep quiet about his location, a pretty hefty bribe.
Humans board your ship, claiming to flee the Federation. Could actually join your crew if telling the truth, or sabotage your ship. Maybe spark Rebellion, based on unjust actions of targetting the Arcadians
One Question about the Lore:
Are other races helping the Arcadians as well? One race mainly side Federation, rarely see allies of such race? Or evenly split sides?
Id love to support this mod, and give help where needed (when it doesn't involve coding. I'm no coder

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Due to the timeline, The Engi will most likely be in the 'Federations pocket'. especially the fact they have a unit in the "last federation fleet" in the vanilla game.
Depending how far back the timeline is, The Zoltan could be also side with the Federation. The game does speak that they left due to the federations violent ways. This war between federation and Arcadian could be what sparked the Zoltans to lose faith in the Federation.
Rocks also may be sided with the Federation as they seem to have older ties with them but thought of them as squishy weak humans as how they got smashed by the Rebels in vanilla game... so at this time period this could be also where the Rockman was with the Federation. Another hint is how there is Rock workers in the hanger in vanilla game and other stuff.
Mantis hate humans with a strong passion and this could be spawned from say, this war was fought in Mantis homeworlds and sectors, ruining everything and hit hard by the war.
Mantis could be a faction that sided with the Arcadians. If the "Arc" eventually became the rebels many years later (possibly the fact they have nearly the same ships and similarities) The mantis in vanilla do seem to be with the Rebels, They rarely or never attack rebel ships and they sided with the Rebels in a plot to steal a top secret engi ship, Rebels and Engi in current FTL timeline in vanilla is atm in a peace pact but The Engi is the greatest ally to the Federation thus having the Mantis attack the Engi could be the way the Rebels hit the Other part of the Federation by attacking the Engi indirectly.
Slugs stay isolated so it can be what ever my friend wishes to be for his mod as lore wise it can go any way.
Crystal are atm very isolated and will be most likely untouched.
Lanius is mysterious and has been dormant for many years so I do not know how they'll fit here... (There 'sectors' in vanilla could be what is spawned from the Arc vs Fed war.) so yea... maybe another mysterious race like the crystal?.
This is just Theorycrafting. This mod is all up to what Anthonest does. He do what ever he wants but This is just what I think maaaaay happen that connects to the strands of lore that FTL has.