Shady Ship Vendors

Update May 3 2026: Now available for Playstation. Also corrected the issue with the docking animation for the Starborn Razorleaf. This required also removing the Starborn cloaking. New Free Lanes equipment added as compensation.

Presenting the Shady Ship Vendors! A set of 3 vendors to be used for selling ship slates. I created these to avoid overpopulating the world with loose boxes and slates. There is one in each of the main cities: New Atlantis, Akila and Neon. In Akila and Neon, they are behind the ship services building, in New Atlantis the vendor is across the ramp (to the left) from the regular ship vendor. All slates need to be read in order to claim the ships.

Some new mods I make will use these vendors instead of placing the slates in the wild. I am also making these vendors available to other modders to use. If you would like to sell your ship slates here instead of making a vendor, head over to the Ship Distribution Discord and I will have instructions. https://discord.gg/wuvaYAsuAc

I cannot leave them without any ships at all by default of course. They will sell you an upgrade to the Razorleaf once you have taken over for the Mantis in a given universe. There are A, B, and C class variants available, you can only claim each ship once.

There is also a special Starborn version that will become available at NG+5. The Starborn version is a highly enhanced C class ship (if you got to NG+5 without investing in piloting I’m sorry, but you really should get on that). It is not modifiable but includes all the special equipment you could want as well as a full complement of special Starborn weaponry. The enhanced engines and Starborn weapons will unlock for use on other ships once you hit NG+10 (along with some other requirements), full details are on the slate in game. Due to this you do need to have Ship Builder Categories as well.

Where this goes in your load order should not matter, other than below Ship Builder Categories, but I cannot say for sure as it is not feasible to test that against the enormous number of mods out there. Just move it around if there seems to be an issue.

-Sadyr

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