Vladance - Orbital Ion Cannon Imp

⚠️ WARNING: NOT INTENDED FOR PUBLIC DOWNLOAD YET! ⚠️ This mod is currently in active development and is only intended for testing with friends. Download and use at your own risk!

An overhauled, feature-rich, and modernized version of the classic Orbital Ion Cannon mod rebuilt specifically for Factorio 2.0 + Space Age.

When you need to call down the thunder to deal with those pesky biters, launch a rocket with an ion cannon into orbit and show the bugs who's boss.

Key Features

• Fully Standalone: Complete decoupling from KuxCoreLib and KuxGuiLib with custom inline events and vanilla Factorio GUI controls.
• Platform Power Charging: Draw power dynamically from space platform electrical grids to charge the ion cannon's primary buffer.
• Orbital Capacitor Banks: Place oic-capacitor-bank entities on platforms to increase energy buffers (+300 MJ) and scale charging limits.
• Progressive Explosion Effects: Blasts scale continuously based on energy discharge:
• Laser/Explosion Damage: Up to 15x base damage multiplier.
• Firestorm (Buffer >= 30%): Sparking wildfires sweeping across the blast zone.
• Chain Lightning (Buffer >= 60%): Searing lightning arcs jumping across surviving biters.
• EMP Silence (Buffer >= 90%): Permanently silences hit spawners and turrets for a full 60 seconds.
• Mushroom Cloud (Buffer = 100%): Massive nuclear detonation visuals upon impact.
• Orbit Reorientation: Automatic platform location tracking ensures your ion cannons follow your space platform to new planets instead of remaining locked in the home planet's orbit.
• Smarter Auto-Targeting: Sector-based 3-chunk scans prioritizing high-density threat spawners and worms with spatial deduplication.
• Extreme UPS Optimization: The mod has been aggressively optimized to run on mega-bases. Massive map-scanning operations during explosions are pre-cached, and the auto-targeter utilizes lazy-evaluation with zero-latency idle execution.

Credits

This mod is an overhauled fork of previous amazing works:

• Original Orbital Ion Cannon mod by Supercheese
• Kux-OrbitalIonCannon update by Kuxynator

Modernized and maintained by rjwolfe44