Campaign-only NPC stations
Introduction
Campaign-unique NPC stations fall into 3 groups. Stations with different owners, stations created for events, and stations constructed over time. The constructed stations became a consistent part of campaign games after Rebirth v3.60 was released.
Station with changing ownership
This is a station who's ownership changes only during a campaign game.
Baseline faction | Faction later during the campaign | Name | Zone | Sector | System |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Beryll | PMC | Buried Treasure | Ascendancy | AL |
Station created for an event
This station is constructed in the background during the campaign while the player is busy elsewhere.
Campaign faction | Name | Zone | Sector | System | Arrival time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PMC | Twilight Sentinel | Bleak Pebble | DV | Placed by PMC during a mission. | A unique weapons platform equipped with many weapons including multiple Plasma/JET turrets. |
Stations constructed over time
NPC Construction Vessels for these stations are deployed during the plot. There isn't a mission associated with them and they will work away in the background without player intervention.These CVs will be replaced if they are destroyed if stage 1 of their station has not been built. If they are destroyed after that, they won't be replaced and the station won't extend further; however even if their CVs are not destroyed, these stations do not become fully extended*.
It's not possible to deploy Trade Agents to these CVs so you'll either need to be nearby them and order wares remotely, or if you have a Trade Computer their offers will remain known for a while but can become inaccurate over time. Since the local system is unable to produce most of the wares needed for station manufacture and NPC galaxy traders may have other priorities, these stations may not be constructed promptly without player intervention (profit opportunity).
Faction in campaign | Name | Zone | Sector | System | Arrival time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vapour Stream | Molten Archon | DV | After HoA Refugees | Food Rations, only | ||
Forty-Two | Glaring Truth | DV | After Integrative URV | Wheat | ||
Extinct Torch | Molten Archon | DV | S, M and XL ships, only. | |||
Fiendish Moloch | Molten Archon | DV | Water |
*For a while, it was possible to board these four deployed RoC/HoA CVs and manually order the full extension of them after placing an Architect and supplying your new CV with needed wares. The station remained RoC/HoA owned and didn't retaliate against the stolen CVs. This illogical behaviour was fixed in 4.00 through blocking the potential to board the CVs.