@SealonBoard No problem at all, look forwards to seeing your mod!

@Armok Thanks for the encouragement! You're right — since your project focuses on a non-FU environment, releasing this as a standalone lore patch would be the best approach to avoid confusion.

I'll take your advice and consider releasing it as my own mod. Thanks for taking the time to reply, and keep up the amazing work with PR!

@SealonBoard I'd admittedly rather stick to what I have here, especially as I don't really care much for frackin. I do appreciate your offer though, might not hurt to try your own hand at releasing the codex as part of its own mod actually?

Armok, I heavily use your PR and other mods and respect your dedication to lore consistency.

I know this patch renames them to 'Mediators' to avoid the vanilla clash, but I recently wrote a Lore Reconciliation Patch for Frackin' Species that resolves this differently.

Instead of renaming, I wrote a new codex that frames the shared 'Peacekeeper' title as a diplomatic bond formed over the Matter Manipulator, ending with distinguishing their own peacekeepers in documentation(including your mediator!). I also rewrote the FU 'Ravager' lore from 'religious cultists' to 'scientific fanatics mimicking Giants' to fit the original legacy lore better.

I thought this narrative approach might appeal to you. If you're interested in reading these codices or incorporating this idea, let me know! I'll upload the codex text at the comment section!

@Vulpes fair enough, I've encountered them before once or twice, but ah well.
The only reason why I even use peglaci (or pretty much any race mod) is because it adds some additional galaxy generation :P

@Armok I always forget about those dungeons because they are so horrifically rare that I have never encountered one in thousands of hours playing the game with the rebirth mod. Only little houses that house one or three in them on snow biomes and even then, there still very rare.

@Vulpes they actually have added some microdungeon encounters and a starter mech body (but are lacking the folloup racial mech body) but yeah, that's pretty much the only additions since the OG

@Armok Yeah, anything that FU subsumes unfortunately doesn't get much attention and they don't really care to make them alive again.
The rebirth mod was more of "remaster" then a "remake", I played with the original Peglaci race and the rebirth feels and acts just like it with only minor changes and updates to make them compatible, there's still no settlements, space encounters, dungeons, etc, etc, you know.

@Vulpes Paradox I mean, Peglaci rebirth was kinda doing that, but since it's one of those mods that FU absorbed, it's development seems to have petered out unfortunately

@Armok I don't think anyone can complain honestly, its better this way since it brings them up to date with the game and, unfortunately, no one seems to really care about this race that much to make update mods for them. Thanks to you, they don't stand out in a bad way anymore.

@Vulpes Paradox ty! honestly suprised that I haven't been getting any "but muh peglaci lore" type comments or anything negative heh

As someone who played Starbound in 2014, its honestly nice to see something for the Peglaci again, even if its just a small text change. Thank you, you've made them lore friendly.

*shrug*

SAD.

@ATTA what you're referring to there is alpha lore, which in some ways was much closer to canon lore than beta was (mostly in regards to the other races besides humans, humans were all militaristic from what I can tell much like in beta)

the Peglaci mod was made back in beta, although it seems like the only cases I found that operated on beta lore was some things related to how humanity was militaristic back then

To be honest, I am very curious about the world view of the early original version of Starbound, some of U.S. and USCM, but unfortunately I have only seen some ancient screenshots (the flying tigers painted bombers and the like)It may be wonderful in the era of peglaci MOD