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Metal Clan

This is an MES NPC mod that focuses on tempestuous planetary battles, bunker-buster missions, missile point defense, and phat loot.


Space engineering is threatened everywhere by Metal Clan: an evil alien race made of dark matter nanobots that are determined to wipe out carbon-based organisms on a planet or moon near you.


Cold War -> Hot War -> Defeat Boss -> Cold War -> Repeat...

Players begin in a state of "cold war" and will only experience aggressive encounters once there is a buildup of significant power in the local region. After directly attacking enough of Metal Clan's cargo vehicles and military stations, they will declare war on the player. All future encounters will have varying degrees of aggression and difficulty. Once the player has defeated enough high value targets, a boss encounter is eligible. Destroying a boss will reset the current state with Metal Clan back to the cold war, and a player can choose to escalate back to war or mostly ignore Metal Clan.

Metal Clan encounters consist of single ground vehicles, convoys of ground vehicles, or planetary installations of various sizes. Many encounters will spawn rockets or missiles which have high explosive yields, and can potentially attack a variety of targets at once.

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Space Engineers pierce the atmosphere of a seemingly new planet, coasting to the surface with ample supplies in their robust drop pod. A new frontier for humanity, perhaps, though this is no novel landscape for the eternal machines of war known as Metal Clan! Lurking within the bedrock lie dormant nanobots, disintegrated and resting peacefully since their last conquest many millennia ago. The arrival of new lifeforms and new machinery activates their sensors and awakens the computerized mind. Slowly they begin to reintegrate into forms more suitable for seeking out their deepest desire: new opponents and challenges in the craft of war!

At first, the Engineers only heard a slight rumble, or perhaps felt an unusual vibration. Eventually everyone felt they were being watched by an unseen and predatory force. Slowly more and more reports appeared of uncanny living machinery, incomprehensibly sentient vehicles, and ghastly radio frequencies emitted from unexplained steel assemblies. Finally, the team of Engineers confirmed their belief - an alien entity made from strange metal had discovered their base and had been studying their defenses! Was it too late to begin preparing defenses for this alien aggressor?

Then one day, the sky turned dark with smoke and ash. Rockets screamed through the atmosphere, sending scientific missions to an explosive conclusion. Missiles rained down on mining convoys, scattering their efforts and plunging the engineering colony into debt. These were the least of their fears! Seemingly overnight, these metal aliens built a large spire straight out of the ground which now emits wave after wave of rocket attacks. The tanks poured in from all sides, and artillery blasted the colony from mountaintops. Sardonic, robotic laughter cackled over the radio waves as the computerized intelligence mocked those who fell before the might of Metal Clan.

With seconds remaining before the collapse of all bulkheads and loss of their new colony, the Engineers made one final communication back to their home world. "This planet is a battlefield," they cried. "Do not attempt a landing without proper defenses!" Now armed with the knowledge of this alien menace, defense forces prepare to find the central location of the alien intelligence, and to destroy it once and for all!

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THIS MOD INTENDED TO WORK WITH MODIFIED SPEEDS

Use the Element Clan Speed Mod to achieve the recommended settings of:

• 300 m/s Small Grid
  
• 150 m/s Large Grid

Feedback and updates shared in the MES Discord #void-fire-metal channel[discord.com].

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No part of this mod can be reuploaded or reproduced.