Saw a post on YouTube by KnowitallDM that unfortunately that the developers of Empyrion add two new faction to the game that now use the id code that was ISI in star salvage, he said he change the id for ISI. unfortunately older save will now have to re find the ISI in new play fields, as the old play fields have the old id associated with it

Thanks for the info. Yes, just noticed the ghost ship faction are something new as well.

It's a pity as IS I are my main source of income in my local sectors. I wonder if a save game edit might be able to fix for already discovered sectors. I might take a back-up and test.

I hadn't noticed but yeah, missing on my save even though I started a new game for 1.9...

I just have an unnamed faction that I can't interact with, been relying on Polaris trade stations so far.

I did a little digging in the save files to see if I could find a quick fix for this, but couldn't find anything obvious. I'm no expert and was only using a basic text editor, so it may be possible with the right knowledge and tools as it looks like most of the files aren't something easily understood like TXT or XML.

So for the moment it looks like I'm going have to search further afield for an ISI base to sell my T4 extenders to make a quick buck.

Hopefuilly this can be fixed in a later update.

There was a description on how to fix this manually in the comments (not discussion) area. May want to check that out.

Nice one thanks. I'll give it a try.