Cali-NPC V3

Cali-NPC V3

Cali-NPC drops a rogues' gallery of hostile factions into your game — each with its own ships, tactics, and reasons to want you dead. Built on Modular Encounters Systems, so nothing out here is a dumb turret pointed at your hull. Factions coordinate fire, call in reinforcements, and crash each other's fights.

⚠ This is not vanilla combat.

These factions field WeaponCore weapons, energy shields, and serious power and thrust behind them. Stock Space Engineers combat does not prepare you for what's out here. Bring a capable, well-armed ship — a vanilla loadout is target practice.

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Who's out there

Void Walkers [VOID] Nomadic aliens haunting deep space. Start as lone scouts, escalate into swarms of Stingrays and Stingbabies, then Hunters and Urchin B platforms picking you off from range. The Kraken is a serious threat — its ThunderKraken variant hits harder with energy weapons. If a Leviathan shows up, you did something wrong.

Poseidon's Wrath [PRTH] Star-faring zealots on a holy war. Cargo runs with fighter escorts, sorted into threat tiers. Hit their stations or freighters and they'll call for help — whether it comes depends entirely on who's in the neighborhood.

Enclave for Control of the Human Order [ECHO] A machine-worshipping AI cult with human foot soldiers. Freighters and armed escorts working the contested lanes.

Gerry's Independent Republican Regiment [GIRR] Separatist paramilitaries carving out a nation at gunpoint. Mixed formations of cruisers, haulers, miners, and merchants. See a lone probe? It's bait. Leave it.

Golden Knights [GKNT] The law, and the only faction you can win over. Earn their trust and they'll ride to your rescue: patrols, escorts, and eventually elite Saber Heavy Fighters once your standing's high enough. They'll also barge into active VOID and GIRR fights, reinforcements in tow.

Blackmoon Allied Security Services [BASS] Guns for hire, loyal to whoever's paying. Their Sentinel patrols share targeting across the whole group and pull in backup the moment you're spotted.

Allied Astronautical [ASTRA] Arms dealers, rumored to be in bed with BASS. Not in this release yet — coming.

Credits

Ship blueprints by Madeliefjejsaw (aka Dirty Harry) — Horror, Wraith, Bird Of Prey, Eradicator, Garbage Dump, the Sword of Justice, Modified Surveyor, and Minotaur.