Selecting the borg as the cyborg species seems to deduct 1 trait point. Puts my cyborg in the negative when I select the borg portrait.

Forgot to note, Startech AI is only other mod.

i havent touched any of that stuff. for me the main machine species has 1 and 4 like normal and the subspecies has 2 and 5. i havent messed with these values. but did you use borg or assimilated borg. for the cyborg. due to limitaions the organic is under assimilated borg

That was it, selecting borg portrait instead of assimilated borg portrait was the cause. I had not considered there would be another category thank you. If anyone else runs into that, hopefully they find this helpful.

I'm having a very strange issue where every empire's diplomatic background is a weird Borg ship interior? But only half of it is, the picture cuts off down the middle and the rest is the regular background. Is this a known issue, or do i need to poke at my mods for conflicts?

should be fixed now. it was leftovers from the old mods code. should only show up if they are using the shipset. which shouldnt happen randomly

Amazing ship designs thank you for the re-upload. Had one minor thing: The Ship Models (destroyer and up) do seem to not adequately account for large cloud lighning sections. They produce some "thrusters" at the end of the model that are not very beautiful. Function does not seem to be affected.

large cloud lightning sections? is that from a mod or something new? i have never heard of those sections, but if its the trails im not sure how to change those, i usually run a mod to turn them off

It is a weapon you get if you kill and research void clouds. Its cloud lighning. And the weapon can be positioned in a large ship section. If you do that with the models, you get a weird effect. It's a minor thing in an otherwise and overall great work. Maybe shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.. :D