Starborn Faction Skip - UC Vanguard

Adds a Starborn UC Vanguard skip path after completing Supra Et Ultra. Resolve the UC Vanguard questline with Starborn foreknowledge and save numerous lives! This mod also gives you all the quest rewards and XP you would have gotten for completing the quests normally, like UC Vanguard Spacesuit and uniform, the weapons, as well as unlocking Hadrian as a follower. I also included some missable loot like the AntiXeno gear, the X989-Microgun and the Shattered Shock. Should you find anything I missed, feel free to let me know.

Also, because I know that some of this quest has very player preference based outcomes, I decided to add a little way for you to decide some things. Near the end of the skip, the cabinet will make sure you have a way of letting them know how to deal with the Terrormorph threat. Do you wish to deploy the Aceles? Or are you more of a microbe person? Do you think the Lazerus plant should be destroyed? Or studied? And do you want the Freestar to be involved in either of those? These are choices YOU make, and are NOT decided by the skip!

Important: When the skip appears The skip dialogue appears AFTER you do the pilot test for Tuala and AFTER you take the oath. When he tries to send you to Tau Ceti II, you will find a new dialogue option with the prefix "[Starborn] [Skip]". Using this will initiate the skip quest. This will start a 24 hour UT timer (I think Jemison is a bit slower, so if you sleep or wait on Jemison, you might need to wait a little longer) after which you will receive a summons to speak before the Cabinet. There are two more forced waits after this moment. I recommend letting the barrage of quest popups play out before waiting so the notifications don't get interrupted by quest popups. The first wait is 24 hours. The second wait is 12 hours The third wait is 12 hours. Then there is a 3 day wait for a surprise message from someone who has only survived because of your intervention in this skip. I won't say more because of spoilers, but yes. Your choices have had impact.

Also important to note, the skip REQUIRES New Game Plus (NG+) to show up as a possibility, just like the vanilla Main Quest skip.

PATCH NOTES:

11/08/2026

Added a Gameplay Options toggle requiring UC Vanguard foreknowledge before the skip becomes available. Added a debug tablet with quest recovery, teleportation, and diagnostic tools.

02/08/2026

Fixed softlock when entering Cabinet scene before all members had spawned. Security Chief Sarkin has finally found his invitation in the mail and has shown up to the meeting.

Known Issues

• Most of this mod is unvoiced. This is because I don't want to use AI to impersonate the real voice actors who put their voices behind these characters and I myself, as a male voice actor, can only do so much. I did voice a single character in this skip, which you will meet near the end of the skip. But for now, the mod is mostly unvoiced.
• Though I have tried to minimize the quest update spam with the wait periods, there is still some barrages of "QUEST UPDATE! QUEST STARTED! QUEST COMPLETED!" during the waiting periods.This is unfortunately something I can't avoid without having to intensively modify the vanilla quests. In order to maintain as much compatibility as possible with mods that alter the UC Vanguard questline I can't in good conscious do that.