Return of the Old: Original Endless Space Heroes
	Now that hero visuals are moddable I am Planning (& Working) on taking all the Heroes from the first Endless Space and bringing them into Endless Space 2
	I’ve done some of the work needed, but there is still quite a lot more to go (there is an in-depth of the work list below)
	I Have opened this thread for discussion about this mod, as I’m still not sure on how I should do certain aspects and I do need help from the Community and/or Developers to make this a good mod. I Plan to add it on the steam workshop when its basic functionality is complete (as otherwise making any changes will break all savegames using it) I would Upload it to the forum but it is already above the 4MB file limit (The estimated final file size is 150MB-200MB) I will look into a place to possibly host it if anyone has any suggestions.
	Feel Free to comment on and discuss this mod and how you think I should do it.

The Work Required

Basic Framework of the Mod - Done

Add Hero Framework - Done

Add Hero Names/Descriptions - Done

Get High Quality Hero Art - (69/82) - I Haven’t found high quality (> 284x126) for 13 Heroes (Details a bit below)

Add in the Art - Done - All the art is added in, but as per above 13 heroes have low quality art

Set up each hero's Race - (Basics Done, Community Help Requested)                   ‾\

Set up each hero's Class - (Basics Done, Community Help Requested)                      } - (Details Below)

Set up each hero's Political Group - (Basics Done, Community Help Requested)    /

Set up each hero's Custom Trait - (Not Started, Community Help Requested)      _/

Add Custom Faction Traits to add each hero (mostly for testing) - Not Started 

Testing - Ongoing

Mod Icon - Done - It's not the best but it will do for now

Possibilities in the future:

Make Custom Trait Trees (I.E. Making Custom Hero Races and Classes)

Add Quests to recruit certain heroes (much like the recent update added)

Not Sure, feel free to suggest ideas

Areas for Discussion:

Extra Heroes?

There are 82 Unique Heroes in Endless Space, but 61 of them had two different first names, should I leave out these heroes' secondary first names and just have the 82 Heroes or add them in as copies of the original hero but with a different first name in the way ES1 did it (for a total of 143 heroes)

Heroes Races, Classes, Political Groups & Custom Traits

Each of the heroes need to have these aspects, While I can just kind of use the existing classes of the heroes for their new class I do want to hear what people think,

What Heroes fit what which hero race? 

What heroes should be in which political group? (I Personally have no idea, other than randomly assigning them)

And Each hero in the game starts with a custom trait, what should these heroes have? (I can't think of 82 custom traits and as the creator of the sandbox mod I don't trust my sense of what's balanced)

Future Possibilities

Like the idea of this mod but think it could do with something more, I'm happy to listen to ideas.

My personal Ideas are adding in new races and classes and their trait trees (maybe make these heroes feel more like how they were in ES1) and also adding in events for recruiting the more special heroes.

High Quality Hero Art

I'm lacking good art for many heroes, the ones in most dire need of good art are shown in the image below. 

I have so far gotten the art from the game files (but its low quality), The Art Book (but it does not contain all the heroes) and the Wikia (only a few are high quality)

So, if you happen to have high quality (> 284x126) art of any of the heroes send it my way 

(I hope the devs can help here as I'm not sure if high quality art for all the heroes is publicly available) 

Change Log:

Version 0.5 [First Public Release]:

The Basic Framework is created

All 82 Unique heroes have had their framework done, along with English names and descriptions

Art has been added for the 82 Heroes (But only 69/82 are high quality)

All Heroes have been set to a Fully existing affinity (Sowers->Primitives, Hisshos->Pirates, Amoeba->Insectoids, Pilgrims->Advanced)

All Heroes have been set to the closest existing Class (based on their first Es1 class, There is a lack of Seekers currnetly)

All Heroes have been set to a random Political Group

All Heroes have the same example starting hero trait

The United Empire Is set to receive all the heroes on the game start

Download

Steam workshop

It's not on the Steam Workshop yet, but will be soon, When its more done.

Dropbox

It is now available on Dropbox: Download V0.5

To Install, Unzip file into %Documents%\Endless Space 2\Community\

Change Log: Version 0.5 [First Public Release]: The Basic Framework is created All 82 Unique heroes have had their framework done, along with English names and descriptions Art has been added for the 82 Heroes (But only 69/82 are high quality) All Heroes have been set to a Fully existing affinity (Sowers->Primitives, Hisshos->Pirates, Amoeba->Insectoids, Pilgrims->Advanced) All Heroes have been set to the closest existing Class (based on their first Es1 class, There is a lack of Seekers currnetly) All Heroes have been set to a random Political Group All Heroes have the same example starting hero trait The United Empire Is set to receive all the heroes on the game start

Download link:
Dropbox: Download V0.5
To Install, Unzip file into %Documents%\Endless Space 2\Community\