I had an idea partly inspired by the person asking about adding in voices. If that's out of the question from a technical standpoint, I was wondering if it would be possible to affix a little portrait next to the speech bubbles that appear from NPC ships from time to time. I'm not sure if it would look right, but it might give a nice effect. I really like the texture that Real Stations and Real Captains adds to the game, it's that extra layer that the vanilla experience was lacking. I was writing a bunch of dialogues for more variation when you're "walking around a station" so to speak. I'd be happy to send that file your way if you'd want to use some or all of them in an update. On the subject of voices: I was poking around the game files and though I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at because I'm a Python guy and not a LUA guy, but it should be *possible* to add in NPC voices, or crew voices, or some kind of facsimile. I don't know anything about the coding end of things, but I could happily help source and provide the sound files if you ever wanted to make an attempt in the future. Just as an example, some of the voiced dialogue from the Homeworld series would really shine here, especially the mining units.

I think there is some way to add pictures to dialogues, I can experiment with that idea.
Voicelines definetly can be added here and there, like VI in the Real Stations mod. Just need to figure out where and how to place triggers to activate them.
I will appreciate if you send me dialogue lines, because It requres too much time to develop all of the features in my mods all by myself

Hi, now that my issue is solved I also found suggestions immidiatly. I think the occasions in which captain images are visible are way to few.

So my suggestion is to find more occasions where one would see the captain images.

-> when interacting with a captained ship while in same sector e.g. to give it sector commands it would be nice to see a small image somewhere.

-> when hovering over a ship with a captain in galaxy map it would be nice to see their image there or alternatively implement a small picture next to each ship.

Cool! I have idea in my mind: custom dialogue window with ships that will contain portraits. I will try to experiment with your ideas, they are much easier to add