So, i am wanting to make a custom faction mod that is probably stupidly hard to code, if possible at all. The idea stems from the "tendrils of the church" tech. When i read that, an idea came to mind and this is the culmination of that single idea. This mod, in essence would be a cross between the vodyani's essence drain, and the unfallen's tendrils. Keeps the leechers the leechers, and their arks to be the entwiners, that still cost essence. All the while, having the vodyani's special "one pop to multiple planets" if at all possible. If all of this is even possible to begin with! For all i know, this is impossible to do. To make matters worse still, i don't know how to mod ES2. If anyone is willing to help i would be deeply grateful.

Hey guidingchip8,

Unfortunately this is a very complex idea and it would require a lot of code to work!

Also, the colonization behavior of Vodyanis and Unfallen is extremely incompatible because of the way we architectured this feature.

So you can't do it with a mod, or maybe with some very complicated workarounds using quests and stuff, and broken GUI.

I had a similar concept which didn't require much except making Arks require tendrils to be able to colonise the system. A mashup come true would be a hacking operation installing a special probe on a system which spawns tendrils after some time. I'd consider dropping Essence altogether and allow Behemoth modules on Arks instead but that would create a problem when cross-renewing Vodyani and custom faction destroyed Arks.